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The Benefits of Feeding Burns Real Food
Feeding for Health
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The Holistic Approach

For a number of years I recommended my veterinary practice clients to avoid feeding proprietary pet foods but instead to feed a home-made diet of brown rice, vegetables and chicken, fish or meat sold for human consumption.

Although a number of people were able to follow this recommendation and achieved remarkable results, many found that preparing food at home for the dog was simply too daunting a task.

For this reason I developed Burns Real Food, based upon the home-made diet which I used to recommend. There are no secret or magic ingredients; there are no added pharmacologically active supplements or ingredients.

As the name implies, Burns Real Food is just that; a simple food which is intended to allow the body to function as it should.
Burns is not intended to intervene in order to alter the normal metabolism of the body.

The aim is to stand back and let the body get on with what it does best; to maintain and repair itself and to prevent deterioration of the organ systems.

This is in contrast to medicinal products which are intended to have a direct therapeutic action.

The main protein sources in Burns are chicken, lamb, fish, venison and duck which are nutritious and highly digestible.

Sunflower oil and chicken oil provide essential fatty acids and seaweed provides an organic source of minerals.
The recipes are fixed so the ingredients do not alter when cheaper ingredients are available. This is of enormous importance as many health problems are caused by undiagnosed intolerance to food ingredients.

The Benefits of Feeding Burns Real Food

Burns real food offers many benefits over most complete diets:

• It is more palatable than many dried foods so can be enjoyed even by fussy dogs and cats.


• Feeding Burns Real Food really is economical - the approximate feeding cost for a small dog (10kg) is 23p, a medium dog (20kg) 46p and a large dog (30kg) 69p. Feeding cost for a cat is around 16p daily.


• Because Burns Real Food is a low residue food there is less to clean up - which is good for the environment.


• Burns use chicken meat, barn raised duck, ocean fish, UK Pork, New Zealand Lamb and Venison as sources of quality protein. We do not use meat from battery hens.

Feeding for Health

There are two strands to the Holistic Approach to health and nutrition. The first of these is the selection of suitable food.

However, it is almost as important to ensure that the quantity of food is right. Overfeeding will undo much of the benefit of feeding the correct type of food.

The best, and only reliable method of assessing whether a food is going to be beneficial to health is by a feeding trial which should be carried out as outlined below:

Health Management Programme

1. Gradually change to the trial food. Slow introduction allows a smooth change of intestinal bacteria, thus minimising the risk of intestinal upset.
2. Following the introductory period the trial food should be the only food given.
3. Quantity of food must be carefully controlled to meet but not exceed the pet's requirements.
4. Regular suitable exercise helps to use up excess calories, discharge waste products, improve circulation and improves mental stimulation.
5. Ask your veterinary-surgeon to empty a dog's anal glands. This aids in the elimnination of waste from the system.

The Food

Here are some pictures of the food to give an idea of kibble sizes:

Adult Food:

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