My diet plan

[Jill Marie]

Glider booster, I tried to look for it on Marie's site but couldnt find it
Is that like the stuff Exotic Nutrition sells?

I like to use that too, was just wondering if its the same product.

Nice diet Marie.

I would love to get all the nutritional data on all the supplements you are using and plug it all into Nutrition Data.com and compare it to the diets popular in the US to see how it compares with sugar, calcium, protein, etc.  Not all of us over here like a diet high in sugar.  One nice lady did a comparison already and would just like to be able to expand on it.  I am still working on "my" diet to reduce the sugar amounts.  But I also want to do away with supplements, or at least cut way back on them.

the problem is I dont have ALL the values for ALL the supplements and the companies that provide them are not willing to share.  Take the glideraide, its main ingredient is sugar. 

[Marie]

The glider booster is exotic nutrition. Gliderade is not a main part of the diet it is only a treat to keep the diet interesting and it is only fed in small amounts, 1 teaspoon of powder/5 of water per pair.  Nectar is something gliders would eat in the wild which is also why it's added, along with pollen and acacia gum. 

The acacia gum for instance helps keep the gut movements flowing, it's great for constipation and gliders have an elongated caecum specifically for digesting gum.  It's something other animals do not have, if it's there why not use it?

The bee pollen is stacked full of calcium and is a complete protein, I thought about substituting the cat biscuits for it at one point but then I remembered that it's important to have a crunch for oral health so dismissed the idea. 

I'm not totally against sugar, it's the quantity of it in the leadbeater diets that I oppose.  To cut out sugar further, I give my gliders mainly veg, they do get some fruit but it is mostly veg.  In fact that's one of the things I intend to do during the holidays, a new recipe sheet with alot more veg in them .

[CookieMonster]

i now use this diet thanks marie

[Macca]

Thanks for the diet plan!! I have copied it all onto a document and laminated it!! It now in my kitchen and ready to go!!!

[Usha77]

I just want to add here for anyone in the US, that I have heard and read that the Iams food in the UK is much better quality than the Iams here in the US.  Therefore, if you're in the US, you may want to try to find a different dry cat food that is as high quality as the Iams in the UK, if you can.    Assuming this is still the case, of course.