cats study

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Here is the file I have on the study;

 

All the best

 

Bill

Vancouver WA

 

Pottenger's Cats - A Study in Nutrition

Francis M. Pottenger, Jr., MD

 

Between the years of 1932 and 1942, Dr. Francis Marion Pottenger, Jr.

conducted a feeding experiment to determine the effects of heat-

processed food on cats.

 

" ...Pottenger's cats

Pottenger noticed a disproportionately high level of high death rate

among cats undergoing adrenalectomy. These laboratory cats were being

used to test the potency of a hormone in an adrenal extract he was

making. The adrenal glands of these cats were removed for the

experiments. Unfortunately most of the cats died during the operation.

 

Dr. Pottenger was feeding these cats the most nutritive diet he

could, according to the experts of his day. The diet consisted of raw

milk, cod liver oil and cooked meat scraps of liver, tripe,

sweetbread, brains, heart and muscle. When the number of donated cats

exceeded the supply of food available, Dr. Pottenger began ordering

raw meat scraps from the local meat packing plant, including organs,

meat, and bone, and fed a separate group of cats from this supply.

Within months this separate group appeared in better health than the

cooked meat group. Their kittens were more energetic and, most

interestingly, their post-operative death rate was much lower. At a

certain point, he decided to begin a controlled scientific study.

 

The Pottenger cats study lasted for ten years, with three generations

of cats being studied. Approximately 900 cats were involved. This

study was specifically designed to show the difference between eating

raw foods versus cooked and processed foods over a long period of

time. The experiment in which one group of cats received only raw

milk and raw meat, while other groups received part of the diet as

pasteurized milk or cooked meat, can be summarized as follows:

 

Adequate Diet A: 1/3 raw milk, cod liver oil and 2/3 raw meat.

Defficient Diet B: 1/3 raw meat, cod liver oil and 2/3 pasteurized

milk.

Defficient Diet C: 1/3 raw meat, cod liver oil and 2/3 evaporated

milk.

Defficient Diet D: 1/3 raw meat, cod liver oil and 2/3 sweetened

condensed milk.

Defficient Diet E: raw metabolized vitamin D milk only.

Effects on cats

 

The cats eating only raw food were disease free and healthy,

generation after generation after generation.

The cats eating the cooked and processed foods had all kinds of

problems.

By the end of the first generation the cats started to develop

degenerative diseases and became quite lazy.

By the end of the second generation the cats had developed

degenerative diseases by mid-life and started losing their

coordination.

By the end of the third generation the cats had developed

degenerative diseases very early in life and some were born blind and

weak and had a much shorter life span. Many of the third generation

cats couldn't even produce offspring. There was an abundance of

parasites and vermin while skin diseases and allergies increased from

an incidence of five percent in normal cats to over 90 percent in the

third generation of deficient cats. Kittens of the third generation

did not survive six months. Bones became soft and pliable and the

cats suffered from adverse personality changes. Males became docile

while females became more aggressive.

The cats suffered from most of the degenerative diseases encountered

in human medicine and died out totally by the fourth generation.

His conclusions:

 

A diet consisting exclusively of raw milk and raw meat was the only

adequate intake which insured the maintenance of optimal health for

the cats. Cats on the all-raw diet showed good bone structure with

wide palates and plenty of space for the teeth as well as excellent

bone density, shiny fur, and lack of parasites and disease. They

reproduced with ease and were gentle and easy to handle.

Cooking the meat, or substituting heat processed milks for raw,

resulted in heterogeneous reproduction and physical degeneration that

escalated with each successive generation.

The changes in facial structure and beginning of degenerative

diseases that Dr. Pottenger observed in cats on deficient diets

mirrored the human degeneration that Dr. Price found in tribes and

villages that had abandoned traditional foods.

 

Articles

Clinical Evidences of the Value of Raw Milk.

 

Books

Pottenger's Cats: A Study in Nutrition. ISBN: 0916764060

Fundamental Chemistry in Lab. ISBN: 0673078779

 

External links

Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation web site. (http://www.price-

pottenger.org/)

Francis M. Pottenger, MD and " The Hazards of a Health Fetish " By Ron

Schmid, ND (http://www.realmilk.com/schmid_healthfetish.html)

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Thanks Bob. I wonder whether some information is missing. It's been years

since I looked at this material, so I may be remembering incorrectly, but I

seem to recall tht some of the degenerative cats were returned to a healthy

diet and began recovering over several additional generations. In any event,

that is what one would expect to occur.

 

Please note that we are now transitioning from our 3rd to our 4th

generation. If you look at today's kids, they are physically deformed,

seriously so. They are generally lazy, lethargic, etc. Their eyes have that

" blank " look in many cases, they are clearly substantially less intelligent

and less self- and socially-aware than their predecessors. It is likely that

a HUGE percentage will be infertile/impotent, and suffer from ALL OF

allergies, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, and much more.

 

As adults, many of these kids will be unable to sustain themselves in

constructive ways. In my opinion, we really are looking ahead into an

implosion of unprecedented scale in known human history.

 

I'm generally quite an optimistic fellow! But they reality that surrounds me

is difficult not to see.

 

Elchanan