Episode 9: Nutritional Deficiencies and Dietary Supplements – Part 2 Answering the questions about use of nutritional supplements: How do we recognize/suspect the need? When should we use nutritional supplements?   In order to better recognize and understand nutritional deficiency, it helps to review some basics of nutritional research …

Episode 7: Nutritional Deficiencies and Dietary Supplements Public Interest in Nutritional Supplementation 50% of the U.S. adult population uses dietary supplements 1990-1997 400% growth in dietary supplement sales for humans Currently growing at 15% per year $37 billion annually 85% of regular supplement users believe that dietary supplements are good …

Episode 6: Diet Recommendations   Many choices in pet foods Dizzying array in the pet store from the least expensive to the more expensive and ‘holistic’ foods What is a ‘holistic’ food?   Which one to choose? Why? Two primary concerns: Nutritional quality Safety   Recent safety concerns with …

Episode 5: Recognizing Nutritional Deficiency: 2 clinical examples Presenting two examples of nutritional deficiency Not classical nutritional/vitamin/mineral deficiency syndrome Lack of classic signs = “subclinical” deficiency Veterinarians need to increase their level of suspicion that illness may be related to nutritional problems Aspen Presented 4/02: 13 year old spayed female …