See on Scoop.it – Holistic Horses from PENZANCE Equine Integrative Solutions Defining Good Horsemanship with PENZANCE Equine Integrated Solutions and Gwenyth Santagate Gwenyth Santagate‘s insight: Find out how the Glycemic…

Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load Over and over I am admonished that my advice about feeding fresh, raw fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds to horses is going to kill…

With all the fuss about Insulin Resistance, Cushings, EMS and more with warnings of feeding apples, pears, carrots and other fruit and vegetable treats to horses, here’s the REAL low…

Fresh fruits and veggies for horses?  Worried about IR and EMS horses and the sugar ‘spikes’ from fresh foods?  INDEX vs. GLYCEMIC LOAD … a good, simple explanation.  There’s nothing…

  For those of you with IR horses or horses that are exhibiting symptoms of IR. For those of you who have heard, “No grass! No apples! No carrots! No…

DOES YOUR HORSE GET ENOUGH CHLOROPHYLL? How many times have you read or heard the recommendation to take the horse off grass? Don’t feed him ANY carrots or apples or…

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This is a brief summary of what I studied this morning: Some quote from studies that might help: (I made some notes in [brackets] following specific quote. “Interestingly, fiber from…

Below you’ll read an adapted short article (Dr. Michael Cutler) on just what happens to the body in an EMS/IR state … and, what type of exercise you can do IN ADDITION TO ELIMINATING ALL PROCESSED FOODS to help your horse’s body get back into a natural, HEALTHY state of balance …

Excerpt from article by Dr. Melyni Worth, Diet Recommendations for Equine Cushings and Cushings-Like-Syndrome, AKA Insulin Resistance PLEASE NOTE: [notes in brackets and italics mine for references] Dietary (non-drug) supplements…