Cat Studies by Dr. Pottenger
The Results Are Relevant To Humans
In the 1940's Francis M. Pottenger (not Pottinger) M.D. began a ten year study using 900 cats to determine what effects processed foods have on the body, and to examine the genetic propensity of passing degenerative disease traits from generation to generation.
Pottenger's cats study gives insight into why children today are getting degenerative diseases that used to only show up in humans at an age of 50 years or older.
What is alarming about this study is that the levels of health get progressively worse with each generation. The four generations of cats were observed over ten years. It takes approximately 25 or more years to beget a generation of humans, so the same study would take over 100 years in people.
Of course no such study is being done, but it's easy to observe that there is a tremendous increase in heart disease, cancer, arthritis, and autoimmune diseases over the last eighty years. There is however a decrease in infectious disease, mainly due to the use of anti-biotics, so we may be living slightly longer.
THE STUDY
The cats were divided into five groups with two of the groups fed raw whole foods and the other three groups cooked enzymeless foods. The cats were observed over a four generation period.
| GROUPS | A | B | C | D | E |
| FOOD FED | Raw Meat | Raw Milk | Pasteurized Milk | Evaporated Milk | Condensed Milk |
| First Generation | Remained Healthy | Remained Healthy | Developed diseases near end of life | ||
| Second Generation | Remained Healthy | Remained Healthy | Developed Diseases near middle of life | ||
| Third Generation | Remained Healthy | Remained Healthy | Developed diseases and illnesses in beginning of life; many died before six months of age | ||
| Fourth Generation | Remained Healthy | Remained Healthy | No fourth generation was produced; either third generation parents were sterile, or fourth generation cats were aborted before birth | ||
| Source: Pottenger's Cats, a Study in Nutrition | |||||
Multiple generations of cats on the raw meat diet were healthy!
- They had adequate nasal cavities, excellent tissue tone, good fur with little shedding, and no facial deformities
- The Calcium and Phosphorous content of their bones was consistent
- Their internal organs developed and functioned normally
- Throughout their life-spans they were resistant to infections, fleas and other parasites
- They were free of allergies and miscarriages were rare
- Litters averaged five kittens, with mothers experiencing no difficulty nursing
Multiple generations of cats on the cooked meat diet were not so healthy!
- They had many variations in facial bone and dental structure
- Their long bones tend to be increased in length and smaller in diameter, showing less calcium
- In the third generation, some of the bones were as soft as rubber
- Other indications were heart problems, nearsightedness, farsightedness, under-activity or inflammation of the thyroid gland, infections of the kidney, liver, testes, ovaries and the bladder, arthritis and inflammation of the joints, inflammation of the nervous system with paralysis and meningitis
- Infections of the bone appeared regularly, often appearing to be the cause of death
- By the time the third generation was born, the cats were so physiologically bankrupt that few survived beyond the sixth month of life
- Cats on the cooked meat diet were more irritable
- There was evidence of role reversal, with female cats becoming the aggressors and male cats becoming docile and passive, either acting perverted or showing no interest in sex. Some females were dangerous to handle
- Starting to see a pattern here YET?
- Increasingly abnormal activities occurred between the same sexes
- Pneumonia and empyema An accumulation of pus were principal causes of death in adults, with diarrhea, followed by pneumonia, the cause of death in kittens
- Vermin and intestinal parasites were rampant
- Skin lesions and allergies were frequent and progressively worse from one generation to the next
- Males often failed to have active sperm sperm counts are dropping 1% per year. a test of college students found 25% to be infertile development
- Many females failed to become pregnant and those that did had difficulties
- Spontaneous abortion, or miscarriage in pregnant females was about 25% in the first deficient generation, increasing to about 70% in the second generation
- Deliveries were difficult, and many females died in labor
- Some mothers failed to lactate.
- Females frequently had ovarian atrophy A wasting or decrease in the size of an organ or tissue, as from death and reabsorption of cells, pressure, malnutrition, decreased function, or hormonal changes and uterine congestion
- The mortality rate of kittens was high
- The average weight of kittens was 16% less than those born to mothers raised on a raw meat diet
What happened when the Deficient Cats were put on a Raw Meat Diet?
- The cats of the first and second generation groups were returned to a raw-meat diet. It took about four generations to recover a state of normal health
- Improvements in resistance to disease was noted in the second generation, with allergic manifestations persisting into the third generation
- By the fourth generation most of the severe deficiency symptoms disappeared, but seldom completely
- Once a female cat was subjected to a deficient diet for a period of 12 to 18 months, her reproductive efficiency was so reduced that she was never able to give birth to normal kittens
- Only when the kittens were put on an optimum diet did a gradual reversal and regeneration take place
Think this study has NO Relevance to humans?
Look at the explosive growth of:
- Degenerative Diseases over the last 200 years as we have moved away from raw to processed foods
- The soaring DEATH RATES from Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease
- The increase in sexual deviancy
- The alarming increase in infertility, and reproductive problems
- Fertility clinics and in-vitro fertilizations
- Caesarian Sections are becoming common-place
- Increased premature birth
In the wild, animals on their Natural Diets are relatively free of degenerative disease.
When animals are put on human diets, three things consistently occur:
- The animal's life span is cut by as much as 185%
- Their weight increases by as much as 164%
- They develop the same diseases as humans
GENETIC POTENTIAL
Diseases are not inherited
Rather, only the tendency or potential of a disease is passed on from parents to offspring. The disease tendency is transferred by way of the genetic code. A genetic tendency is only a potential disease. A genetic weakness does not have to manifest as a disease unless there are factors that exploit that weakness such as poor nutrition.
These genetic weaknesses will get worse with each succeeding generation if they continue in a enzymeless nutrient poor diet. The study proved that genetic weakness becomes more evident with each generation, but more importantly, that there comes a point when it becomes totally out of control. This is evident in the fourth generation.
Here's what Dr. Pottenger said, "While no attempt will be made to correlate the changes in the animals studied with malformations found in humans, the similarity is so obvious that parallel pictures will suggest themselves."
Did you know?
There are only two groups of animals on earth Who regularly consume cooked food
Animals in the wild do NOT have access to cooked food. They consume RAW food that contains a natural supply of ENZYMES.
- They are healthier
- They live longer
- They do not need to go on so-called "miracle diets" every two weeks in a desperate attempt to lose weight
