On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 10:35, Nenah Sylver wrote: > Hello Garnet. > > I have thought about that quite a bit, actually, Garnet, both in relation to > feeding it to myself and to my dogs. I've come to terms with it for the > following reasons: > > 1) I do vary the veggies I feed the dogs; it's often a combination of veggies > and not only/always broccoli.
Oh, because in your original message it sounded like you were saying you fed broccoli frequently. You wrote "They get lots of broccoli and some starchy veggies..." > > 2) Steaming the broccoli first destroys the component that lowers thyroid > function. Throwing out the water in which the broccoli was lightly cooked gets > rid of that component. So sometimes, especially during colder weather, I heat > the broccoli first. Do you happen to have documentation on what that component is and at what temperature it is destroyed, because I have never run across this information in all the years that I have been dealing with feeding my pets, including many reptiles whose veggies I steamed before freezing in cubes. I was told absolutely not to feed reptiles broccoli in any form so I am wondering if some of the herpetologists are misinformed? Does not mean your information is not correct, but I hope you understand that I would like to confirm it -- since impacting the thyroid is such a dangerous thing, hard to measure and hard to track down. Been there and done that in a hypothyroid dog and horse breeds. How much do you steam it? Is it still somewhat crisp in the middle or totally soft? I love broccoli lightly steamed myself but find that I seem to only want it occasionally, instinct? I used broccoli once to get a cockatiel over addiction to millet, which he has started demanding in exclusion to all other food. I was told to feed only broccoli until he would eat regular seed again and to never feed millet sprays or mixes with millet unless it was in a pellet where they could not pick out just the millet. > > 3) My dogs are, simply put, healthier when they eat broccoli than when they > don't, even if the brocolli is raw. Animals in the wild -- including wolves > -- > go for the stomach and its contents of the prey that they kill. They do this > to > get the greens ingested by the prey animal! I've noticed that when I don't > give > my dogs enough greens, the little one especially will deliberately graze on > grass, like a goat or a cow, for long periods. I've never seen anything like > it. Broccoli is loaded with minerals and Vit C so it is a very good food, fed in balance. Dark greens are loaded with minerals, but leafy greens are not the same as broccoli, to my knowledge they are not thyrogenic. But the stomach contents, while raw have already been subjected to quite an array of digestive enzymes in the mouth and stomach, so it is not at all in a fresh raw state, besides I don't know of any wild animals that ingest thyrogenic veggies. This is not a logical comparison to feeding raw broccoli a lot, although it does support the need dogs have for leafy greens. Perhaps you are just pointing out their natural need for greens. Presently I use a lot of fresh herbs that I grow with seaweed and bat guano fertilizers to increase their mineral contents and make them dark green. I eat some almost every day from my container gardens on the patio, but in small amounts and I vary which ones I eat, except perhaps for parsely, I can eat that in almost anything and love the flavor. The dogs can free range but I only noticed my older dog eating them daily. The younger dogs don't seem interested. I do have two cats that will nibble the lemon grass! > > 4) I put nori and other seaweeds into my dogs' food. Sometimes they will take > roasted nori sheets and eat them plain. Nori is one of my favorite sources of Magnesium and other minerals. It tastes wonderful roasted and I do use it for the dogs occasionally. Garnet -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
