yeah, i took some salt this morning

i was getting a bit woozy

i had an espresso, i don't think that counts as a break, because it's got such a trivial amount of caramel in it, and its main active metabolic product is paraxanthene, which stimulates the liver to convert fats into sugars

i was reading about fasting and cats too... couldn't find any info about like actual gut cleanse purpose, only addressing people who think starving the cat will make it lose weight. this is a very bad thing to do with a fat cat because what makes a cat fat is carbs in their diet, and in addition to the fat under their stretchy cloak of skin their liver gets fat as well. when they go into ketosis, their blood sugar spikes and this can cause renal failure, or at least a very bad time for kitty.

so it's something that is a little different between humans and cats, our bodies can tolerate more sugar than theirs can. in my opinion it should be considered to be animal cruelty to feed a cat food containing any more than about 1% carbohydrates in it. i babysat a diabetic cat for a flatmate once. absolutely apalling. and honestly, the overlap between human sugar metabolism and cat is not that narrow, almost everything applies. even down to things like raw egg white is very bad for cats, because it gets into their blood and gums up the red blood cells, causing anemia. humans can also get this, but it takes a much greater amount of raw eggwhite to cause it.

in addition, i think that it should also be considered to be animal cruelty to feed a cat vegetable protein. almost all the foods now are half soy. i'm pretty sure that my cat is allergic to it. also it's not just that, meat that is fed on corn also has oils and proteins in it that are allergenic. i get it real bad from the eggs i buy around here if i don't cook the yolk hard. so i think it's actually the fats in it, ie, from the GMO corn.