You are ecstatic about the passion and responsibility shown by your child in taking care of his or her dog but be sure to always be hands-on about the nutrition state of the pet because your child may not be able to know this. Dogs in general are active animals and require good food rich in Vitamins A, B-complex, C, D, E ank K.

To help guide you in determining the nutrition levels of your pet dog, you can secure an online chart which can serve as a checklist for the dietary needs of the dog. You can even involve your children in this by telling them of the kinds of food his or her dogg needs everyday.

As a benchmark, the needs of dogs are almost the same as that of humans: high grade meat, vegetables, fruits and a full complement of vitamins and minerals, ranging from calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, phosphorus, boron, chromium, iodine, iron, manganese, molybdenum, selenium, sulphur, zinc and many more.

Foods containing high levels of fiber should also be given; as well as high amounts of water to keep your pet hydrated. Do not give in yoo much fatty foods, because similar to humans they can become obese. Healthy dogs are always one of the best pets for kids

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More than one third of mothers and an estimated 50% of infants have vitamin D deficiencies during the time of giving birth. These are research findings from the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting.

What makes this study interesting is that even pre-natal vitamin D supplements which are a key part of pregnancy nutrition have been found not to work against this deficiency.

Here are the findings according to Reuters Health:

“Anne Merewood, Director of the Breastfeeding Center at Boston Medical Center, and her associates measured vitamin D levels in 433 women and 376 newborns using blood samples obtained within 72 hours of birth. They also collected data from questionnaires completed by the mothers and from the mothers’ medical records.

The results showed that vitamin D deficiency was present in 36 percent of mothers and 58 percent of the babies. The deficiency was classified as severe in roughly two-thirds of the cases.

Among women who took the vitamin D prenatally five or more times a week during the third trimester, more than 30 percent were still deficient at the time they gave birth.

Women who were vitamin D deficient at the time they gave birth were more than five times as likely to have an infant with vitamin D deficiency as women who were not vitamin D deficient.

Other risk factors for vitamin D deficiency in infants included winter birth versus summer birth, African American race, and severe maternal obesity.”

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