Why do I need to separate certain food items, like RMBs, veggies and grains?
This is basically the same as using food combining principles for people. How you combine food groups can be crucial to your dog’s health. The digestive organs secret enzymes to break down food so it can be properly used by the body. When carbohydrates and proteins are eaten at the same time, the protein enzymes go to work first, and the digestion of carbohydrates must wait. While the carbohydrates are waiting around to be digested, they ferment and release toxins in the body. Give only meat (or other heavy proteins such as eggs or milk) at one meal; carbohydrates (fruit & grains) for at another. Vegetables, though may be given with either grains or heavy proteins. Also, grains and meats should not be fed together but veggies can be feed with either, with no loss of nutrients. Fruits, except apples, should be feed alone and at least twenty minutes before or after anything else.
