Dog Food Lunch: Healthy Meal for Kids
September 14th, 2008
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September 15th, 2008 at 1:33 am
I’m surprised you would eat dogfood and say that (in some respects) it is better for people to eat than the school lunches, which I know are also terrible.
I have learned a lot of things about how gross dogfood is..there is no govt. oversight in its manufacture, and producers can and do put the cheapest ingredients they can find in it,including rendered diseased slaughtered animals, and even euthanized pets without removing their flea collars, which means even the pesticides go into the product.
Read the book, “Food Pets Die For”, by Ann N. Martin. It’s an eye opener.
A pet owner has to be extremely careful when shopping for petfood, as there are so few brands that use quality ingredients. Better yet to make the pet food from quality ingredients, at home.
However, after seeing your presentation, I am also appalled at the “foods” given our children, in the schools. It’s no wonder that slim youngsters seem to be in the minority. Fat adults, too.
I see so many tubby young moms pushing baby strollers, and wonder, before they got married, if they didn’t work at having a svelte figure to get married in, then let it go, once they had children. Don’t they realize their husbands must be disappointed they have wound up with a fat wife? Of course, many of those men are obese, too. This is a generation of beached whales.
When I was in school (I’m in my 70’s), we played hard, at recess and lunch hours. We also played hard, when we were home, and rode our bikes long distances, living in the country. I don’t recall knowing any kids with an ounce of fat on them, growing up.
Now, I’ve read that kids don’t even get a recess, where they can burn off some of that energy, and the schools sell pop and junk food, booby traps to snare our children into unhealthy lifestyles. That, and those fatty school lunches are a recipe for
the beached whales we see, everywhere. Dr. Russell Blaylock, a highly respected neurologist and author of nutrition books speaks against foods containing those substances.
The drink you suggested sounds interesting- I’ll have to check that out.
But, I can’t approve of the ham you are serving your child….doesn’t it contain nitrates or nitrite, both of which we should avoid?
I’ll be surprised if you print these comments, but had to add my two cents.
September 15th, 2008 at 5:03 am
Hilarious! Can’t believe you ate dog food…the sad truth is most dogs eat better than us humans. Thanks for the info on Zevia…will definitely give it a try.
September 15th, 2008 at 5:56 am
I do agree with you in that sugar, especially refined, fake or processed sugar, is the culprit for diabetes but also cancer. Aspartame has been linked to MS and fibromyalgia plus many others. A study at Rutgers University found a direct link between diabetes and high fructose corn syrup.
I have two issues with your lunch though. One concern I have is ham. pork is one of the worst meats you can eat (sausage is by far the worst)plus lunch meats are loaded with sodium nitrates which are cancerous.
The biggest concern though was that I didn’t see any raw veggies in there. They are by far the healthiest foods you can eat. Everything in there was high protein (except the bread) but there were no water-rich foods.
If you want to live healthy you have to eat live foods.
Tom
September 15th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Okay, an often intentionally overlooked fact is that most Asian cultures, including those from Japan and Okinawa, have traditionally consumed high levels of fish (as we all know) AND PORK (lots of it). Yet many of these cultures have some of the longest life spans of any humans. Guess pork isn’t all that bad in its natural state.
I have to say the lunch was perfectly acceptable for an active kid. My teen would have loved it. They can load up on the fruits and veggies in the morning or evening at home. Thanks for the great tips and tricks, Shane.
September 15th, 2008 at 8:03 am
That was hilarious and so sad at the same time. What’s sad is that the nutrition in the dog food is barely enough to keep your dog alive, yet it is still better than what schools feed to the kids. And you know it doesn’t stop there. The meals that kids get at home are probably just as bad.
One point about AGE products you failed to mention is that they also show up as wrinkles! Cut the sugar, erase the wrinkles. Since eliminating almost all sugar from my diet, besides losing weight, the wrinkles around my eyes and on my forehead are going away.
As far as the other comments about pork products, you can now buy ham, bacon, and salami that is nitrite, hormone and antibiotic free, some of it at regular grocery stores. What’s great about pork is that according to Sally Fallon of the Weston Price Foundation, pork is a great source of vitamin D. I always knew bacon was a health food!
Keep up the good work, Shane!
September 15th, 2008 at 8:08 am
That was hilarious and so sad at the same time. What’s sad is that the dog food has barely enough nutrition to keep you dog alive, yet it’s still better than what kids get at school. And you know it doesn’t stop there. What they’re getting at home is probably just as bad.
One thing you forgot to mention about AGE products is that they also show up as wrinkles. Cut the sugar, erase the wrinkles! Since cutting out almost all sugar in my diet, not only have I lost weight, but the wrinkles around my eyes and on my forehead are disappearing.
About the comments on pork. You can now buy nitrite, hormone and antibiotic free ham, bacon and salami, some of it at regular grocery stores. One great thing about pork is that according to Sally Fallon of the Weston Price Foundation, pork is a great source of Vitamin D. I always knew bacon was a health food!
September 15th, 2008 at 9:56 am
PORK WILL kill you early as well!
September 15th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Where’s the clip and why is it no longer available?
September 15th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
I am wondering WHY people think pork will kill you. Seriously. Maybe you heard it somewhere right? We always buy nitrate free ham and I would like to remind people that as Shane said, the lunch was packed by a 7 year old. I usually pack her lunch and it include one veggies and one fruit. Maybe Shane should have used the organic pet food I pay a fortune for in the pantry!:)
September 15th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Am I in the Twilight Zone? People feeding their pets better than their children…people taking better care of their cars than their own bodies…people spending more money on clothes and vanity than nutritional supplements? Yep…this society is ass backwards!
September 15th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Has anyone ever seen those pictures of the green glow in the dark pigs?!? I could almost imagine a bad b movie type of horror flick where those pigs were out killing people….AAAAH…Run for ur lives! It’s (drum role puleeeeeeeze) The Attack of the Green Glow in the Dark Killer Pork! (badumpbump)Rather Twilight Zone-ish, eh? Kinda like moms with morning sickness, even though it really strikes ANY OL’ TIME O’ DAY. Good mornin’, my dear toilet bowl. Good afternoon. Good evening. Good night.
Perhaps I need to soften my ornary sense of humor a bit, but I am such a ham sometimes, so that this saying may be fulfilled in the sense that I have become what I have eaten.
This has inspired me to spin anew an ol’ nursery rhyme. So, my dear friends and foes in the land o’ blogosphere…Please, grab your partner by the toes and here we goes…
This little piggy ate school lunch, and this little piggy packed one from home, One little piggy understood good nutrition, and one little piggy misunderstood some, Now, which little piggy faces induction into the fat cow hall o’ fame? What a shame!
Perhaps there may be some toes with hurt feelings out there. Like someone just stepped on one of yours, or worse yet, you just stubbed your own. My advice is to say ouch and get on with getting over it.
Back to school and back to Reality TV and Shane’s point.
How is it that some advertising finds a way of sinking their messages into your head for ever? For instance, remember the old commercial line…Kibbles & Bits, Kibbles & Bits, I gotta get me some Kibbles & Bits!? This could open up a whole new market for dog food. The healthier alternative to the kids school lunch menu…Kibbles & Bits, Kibbles & Bits, I gotta get me some Kibbles & Bits! because it has NO SUGAR FAT TRAPS in it.
BUT Mr. Ellison, aka The People’s Chemist, may be the only one crazy enuff to actually eat Kibbles and Bits to effectively drive this point home. That’s too RUFF RUFF for most.
Personally, I would of insisted on the expensive organic dog food in the pantry for myself. Both Kibbles & Bits and school lunches are quite awful chow in my book. Actually, disgusting comes to mind.
On the other hand, the only one with some sensible food was your daughter, who packed such a smple, healthy lunch. Now, I have a hunch you are both doing a wonderful job teaching her about the value of excellent nutrition and health, as ably demonstrated by the commendable work from your sites, books, articles, and other teaching outreaches.
Then, I suppose if it’s easy enough for a 7 yr old to figure out how to pack a simple, healthy lunch, it shouldn’t be too difficult for most anyone else to, as long as they haven’t decided to remain too pigheaded about poor nutrition and health?
Hmmm. Well, maybe PORK will kill you early afterall? Beware of The Attack of the Green Glow in the Dark Killer Pork, coming from a ham in the blogosphere near you. ;=)! OINK!
Although I haven’t tried Zevia yet, but it is sort of simular to the recipes I make at home of natural flavored seltzer waters with a few drops of liquid stevia. Another favorite is key lime water with stevia. I hope this is indicative of the effectiveness of natural news information hitting the mainstream and making healthy waves. This may be the first mass market diet soda I would consider safe enough to drink. It’s about time, too. And I thought I’d have to wait for pigs to fly first.
On that note, I propose a toast, to when pigheadedness flys away.
And watch out, because if it does, PORK just might start falling from the sky, land on your pigheadedness, and kill you early in epedemic proportions, like SUGAR overload in the diet is doing to too many folks these days!
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:52 am
I know it’s off topic, but we need a Shane Ellison for pet food! Yes, commercial dog food has lots of nasty stuff it that does not appear on the label (e.g., phenobarbitol), but there are holistic, organic alternatives (Verus comes to mind). Now that I think about it, my dog does eat better than the rest of the family.
Now, back to the topic. We tried the samples of Zevia and my son loved it! He just asked last night if we have any more of the “healthy soda.” I’m off to the Zevia website. Thanks Shane!
October 4th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Great comments! This was a fun episode to shoot. Comparatively speaking, I felt great after eating Kibbles and Bits with beer. Growing up under the Twinkie and pancake regime pushed on me by the schools and parents sucked. Learning was hindered and running in PE felt miserable. If not for a keen memory and athletic drive, I might have been forced to become a prescription drug sales rep. Uncle Bulldog, I appreciate the gratitude. Send your mailing address to scott@health-fx and we’ll get you some great books!
October 9th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
I noticed that my middle school did not include sugar content on the food schedules. I called the district food services office. Their answer was that there was no column on the weekly menu for sugar. They list fat and other items, but not sugar. Incredible…
December 30th, 2008 at 10:12 am
I agree with the sugar and processed food problem in this country, but what about the meat problem? Meat is available here in abundance, because we are “fat, wealthy Americans,” a judgment I’ve been coming across by the vegan/vegetarian camps. And isn’t animal products linked with heart disease, diabetes and cancer as well? I really like ham sandwiches, turkey too (esp. Boar’s Head with all the peppered varieties) and and I love chicken, can’t go more than a day or two without it. I like a little beef every once in awhile too, esp. the tenderized beef slices that come with fatty Chinese take-outs (i.e., pepper steak or beef chow fun). But after I read, “The China Study,” by Campbell, I was livid. The author himself became a vegan after his 10+ years of research. Then I had kids with allergies/eczema/asthma issues and deli meat, breads (wheat & yeast), eggs & meat (antibiotics, hormones, processing chemicals) all became suspect. My question is now: CAN ANYONE ENJOY FOOD ANYMORE?!? I can’t imagine life without chocolate and those God-awful, so-called “raw” cacao nibs just won’t do…!