Pet food aims to make canine cognitive dysfunction a distant memory
London - Scientists at the Waltham Center for Pet Nutrition have engineered a new pet food that could reduce the rates of canine cognitive dysfunction syndrome or "doggy Alzheimer's," cancer and other age-related diseases in animals.
London - Scientists at the Waltham Center for Pet Nutrition haveengineered a new pet food that could reduce the rates of canine cognitivedysfunction syndrome or "doggy Alzheimer's," cancer and otherage-related diseases in animals.
The antioxidant food, developed by scientists at the firm's Waltham Centerfor Pet Nutrition in eastern England, works by mopping up dangerous particlescalled "free radicals," reducing damage to animals' DNA, accordingto the company.
Roger Batt, head of research at Waltham, reports that the new pet foodblend reduced DNA damage in dogs by 2 percent over a two-month period comparedwith a conventional diet, while cats displayed 17 percent less damage.
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