Chinese Food Theory: Hot Dogs vs Cold Dogs.... - Page 1

... Every food has properties and actions in terms of how they affect the balance of the body in Chinese theory.  Dogs that have a tendency to be hot in nature should be fed cooling foods, and dogs that tend to be cold in nature should be fed warming foods. This is a similar concept to how we tend to eat certain foods according to the season. For example, we don't eat beef stew in the summer and watermelon in the winter.

http://www.acreaturecomfort.com/yinyanbalance.htm
 

 

This idea was talked about recently and it made me curious. Any body have any experience or thoughts they'd like to share, positive or negative? 

This kind of thinking is there in many other medicinal systems, eg Indian medicine....just not in allopathic medicine. While these ideas have not been proven under western science, there is many thousand years of experience/experimentation of these ideas by the ancients. For the most part, there might be a placebo effect and that they work in the believers. Thus beef, vs lamb, vs veal vs goat vs reindeer meats could potentially be graded on a heat scale.

Aren't we over stepping the line here in humanizing our dogs !!!

Good day Guddu and beetree, I follow your posts

Ibrahim

"Aren't we over stepping the line here in humanizing our dogs !!!"



So....by providing a better balanced, natural and nutritious diet to our dogs we are humanizing them?
 
Would it be better to just buy the cheapest food Wal-Mart has on sale.
 
LOL


Kim
 

Kim, you'd be suprised (or maybe you wouldn't) on how many people think that the Wal-mart brand food is the best.

EduCanine - LOL, would not surprise me, when their dogs start glowing in the dark they might think twice.

I expect a lot from my K9 Pirates, in return they receive the best natural and nutritious diet I can provide.

Just common sense in my mind, and I not humanizing my dogs for the record.


Kim

Who said anything about not giving a good diet to the dog?
I was remarking on this "Hot Dogs vs Cold Dogs"
Hope there are others who read me right without assumptions !!. By the way no one should feel he/she is doing the dog a favor, it is the dog's right to get a decent healthy diet.

Ibrahim

Some of us knew what you meant, Ibrahim !  Partly because, as Bee
said, there was an earlier reference to this Hot & Cold meat thing, and
I queried the advice then.  I'll recap for those who did not see the other
thred:
Dr Jean Dodds, in helping with diets for medical conditions in dogs,
has studied Oriental Medicine and thus suggests that we consider
the Chinese assessments of some meats as 'hot' and some as 'cold'.
The implication is that sick dogs do better on the cold meats (Turkey
for instance).  She lists Beef in the COLD meats.  I queried this as I
have known some dogs react very badly to eating beef, and to kibble
containing cow as its main protein source.

I know the majority of dogs can eat beef and beef products safely.
I do not think it is right to feed our dogs on the cheapest we can get.
[ Quite a few cheaper foods use beef, do they not, as it is readily
available in huge quantities and usually less expensive than some
other meats ?]
I do believe that some of the 'better' foods are, while great for regularly
working dogs, less appropriate for the older and / or less active dog,
and therefore feeding should be adjusted accordingly, including changing
brands or the balance in a raw diet, when necessary.

Not being a student of Traditional Chinese Medicine, I could not comment
on how well that philosophy translates from human to animal wellbeing.
Some may tell us that its all the same;  if it's not, I suspect we would be
'humanising' our dogs a bit, if we were to follow suggestions in it ...
 

well i think we are already doing this in many ways.....raw feeders utilize meat popsickles in the summer...and fully defrosted meat in the winter...same with liquid when softening dog food...i usually add hot broth in winter and cold broth/water in summer...

...common sense..

** unless i completely missed the point of the thread