Learning to feed your cat the appropriate diabetic cat food can turn this condition around, reducing the need for insulin over quite a short time.

Cats are not diabetic because their body systems have failed. They are diabetic because their body has struggled so long under adverse conditions. Conditions that do not promote health.

The common commercial cat food is either dry or wet. Kibble or canned. 

It is mostly made from rejects from the human market, topped up with cheap, but inappropriate plant based protein, fortified with synthetic supplements, which can be highly toxic, and cooked at insanely high temperatures.

Recalls are plentiful.

It is nutritionally bankrupt. It is toxic. It contains inappropriate food for our carnivorous cats.

It is hardly surprising that cats can become diabetic.

The common veterinary treatment of cats involves vaccines yearly. These are chemicals which upset the natural balance of a healthy immune system.

When the cat becomes sick, as they inevitably will, instead of looking for the cause of the problem, the veterinary treatment adds in more chemicals in the form of drugs.

No drug is risk-free. They aim to suppress the symptoms, not to cure them.

Most people use toxic chemicals in their home, to clean, to polish, to kill insects, to wash.

Furnishings abound with synthetic chemicals.

Cats are fastidious in their hygiene. They are also closer to the floor. This means they are inhaling and ingesting more chemicals than we are.

Cats are particularly sensitive to chemicals, so readily succumb to them. A stay in a cattery may well overload them, as most catteries fastidiously clean their pens with strong disinfectants or bleach, to ensure there’s no cross contamination.

All these factors contribute to many ailments including diabetes.

There are several things you can do immediately, to help your cat overcome this serious disease, even if they have had it a while. You never know how much good you can do until you try.

The first thing that’s really important to address is their diet. Start giving your cat good quality, natural, raw food. Human grade raw meat, from a butcher, will generally not contain any preservatives or colour as most countries have laws against that. 

However, it is advisable to check.

It’s better to feed a diabetic cat 3 or 4 small meals a day, rather than 1 or 2 larger meals.

Diabetic cat food can be slightly different from normal, healthy cat food. Vets advice against a high fat content.

This is not entirely logical as the dry cat food especially is very high in fat.

It's the type of fat that matters. Dry food is usually sprayed heavily with cheap plant based fat. Our cats are carnivores so they lack the ability to utilise plant based food. They need animal fat.

You will automatically keep the fat content down to an acceptable level when you use human grade meat.

A good diabetic cat food, like any good cat food, is as close to that of a wild cats food as possible. Cats have evolved to efficiently use raw food. They can’t use processed and cooked food in the same way, as cooking destroys many nutrients.

Once you have your cat regularly eating good quality raw food, the need for insulin drops. And if it isn’t too far advanced, there’s no reason why a full recovery is not possible. 

Recovery from serious disease is not uncommon when the cause is addressed. Ensuring your cat only eats a healthy, high quality, raw, diet, at the very least will reduce the need for insulin.