A Diet for Health and Healing

This article contains excerpts from my column, ‘The Holistic Parrot’,  that appears in the February 2011, #157 issue of Parrots magazine.

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A healthy, symptom free, Blue and Gold macaw.

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The dictionary defines health as the general condition of the body or mind, being free from disease or ailment, while also possessing vigor and vitality.  But how many of the birds under our care can actually be described as being completely free of the symptoms of illness and disease?  Many holistic veterinarians have told me that their human clients readily accept mediocre to poor health as being normal in their companion animals.  If you’re truly interested in the health of your birds – be mindful of the fact that healthy birds are symptom free and naturally resist illness and disease.

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Avian Natural Healthcare

Avian Holistic Nutrition is the foundation of my work with the birds.  Did you know that avian holistic nutrition is three decades – 30 years –  behind what is commonly available for dogs and cats?  It’s time for this to change.

One holistic veterinarian who treats my companion animals once told me, “If there’s life, there’s hope.”   This simple phrase has become an affirmation for me, an indicator that we can make a difference.

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Examples of Natural Healing -

Using Diet for Cataract Reversal

These photos show one example of the healing results in parrots we are seeing.

What is a Cataract?

Cataract, left eye, Amboina King parrot, photo: Feb. 2010

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A cataract is a condition in which the eye lens looses its clearness.  A grey-white film can be seen in the lens, behind the pupil. In people cataracts are surgically removed. (1)  When cataracts are present the lens of the eye thickens and becomes clouded, it becomes unable to focus or admit light properly into the eye.  The main symptom of a developing cataract is the gradual loss of vision.  Cataracts are commonly caused by free radical damage.  Free radicals attack the structural proteins, enzymes and call membranes in the lens of the eye.  The free radicals present in our food, water and the environment  are  a major factor in the development of cataracts.(2)

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Left eye cataract reversal, Amboina King parrot, photo: Dec. 2010.

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In this photo taken ten months later notice how the cataract in the eye of this same bird has become much less cloudy. We attribute this improvement to the personalized nutrition and diet plan she is on along with constitutional homeopathic treatment.

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This bird’s diet consists of 100% organic foods. Our Wheat-Free – Complete Protein – Sprouting Blend makes up 80 to 90% of her diet. The remaining 1- to 20% consists of organic raw fruits, raw or steamed organic vegetables with select nuts. Why was she fed a wheat-free diet?

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Are you beginning to see why the type of sprouting blend you feed your birds is so important?

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For information on how a Personalized Nutritional consultation can help the companion animals under your care, please contact info@MoransCritterConnection.com

(1) The Signet Mosby Medical Encyclopedia.

(2) Prescription for Nutritional Healing, Third Edition, Phyllis A. Balch, CNC.

For the entire published version of this column visit Parrots magazine.