Deteriorating cat health and diabetes in particular seem to be much more widely spread than they once were, a few decades ago.
If you find out what the cause is, then you are in a much better position to remedy that, to take appropriate action.
This has the potential of reversing the diabetes.
One of the most common misconceptions today is that commercial cat food is 'perfectly balanced' and 'natural'.
Neither of these statements can ever be true, as humans know so little about the complexities of food.
For example, it wasn't that long ago that taurine was discovered at essential for a cat's health.
It occurs naturally in fresh meat, a cat's natural food.
Why wait for other discoveries to be made, when all you have to do is to feed your cat in accordance with her evolutionary history? People have been manufacturing food, for both humans and animals only recently, in terms of our evolution.
In the past decade or two, there have been many more introductions of processed food ingredients.
Ingredients that tend to benefit the manufacturer, but do little for your health, or may actually harm it.
Such as the preservatives ethoxyquin and formaldehyde, both of which are added to many commercial cat foods to increase the shelf life.
However, these preservatives would never be allowed in human food.
And there is a growing awareness of the dangers of preservatives used in human food.
How much worse these harmful and toxic chemicals must be for our beloved pets.
Commercial cat food is often just a blend of low grade meat by-products, cheap filler and a chemical cocktail of colours, appetite stimulants, synthetic nutrients and preservatives.
The filler is often sugar, as sugar is frequently over produced and so cheap on the world market.
Do you consider feeding your cat high concentrations of refined sugar healthy? Do you think that this alone may contribute to your cat's diabetes? It's always worth questioning everything.
It's better to be sure that what you're feeding your cat is not doing harm.
It's better not to trust those with a profit motive.
A diet of quality raw meat and bones is in accordance with your cat's evolution.
By making the switch you may be able to reverse the diabetes altogether.