Sentences with phrase «unbalanced nutritional diet»

(Bad living habits, unbalanced nutritional diets, and old - age pregnancies are also possible factors that cause birth defects in newborns, say researchers.)

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An unbalanced or poor diet can lead to nutritional deficiencies or overloads that result in not so optimal performances — both mentally and physically.

Homemade diets and commercial BARF diets are often demonstrable unbalanced and have severe nutritional deficiencies or excesses.16 - 18 Dogs have been shown to acquire and shed parasitic organisms and potentially lethal infectious diseases associated with raw meat, including pathogenic strains of E. coli and Salmonella.25 - 27 Many other pathogens have been identified in raw diets or raw meat ingredients, and these represent a risk not only to the dogs fed these diets but to their owners, particularly children and people with compromised immune systems.29 - 30 The bones often included in such diets can cause fractured teeth and gastrointestinal diseases, including obstructed or perforated intestines, and the FDA recently warned pet owners against feeding bones to their canine companions.

Likewise, an unbalanced homemade diet can easily lead to a nutritional imbalance.

Nutritional deficiencies are now uncommon in dogs and cats unless owners are feeding a nutritionally unbalanced diet.