No, that makes me a good father, who cares enough his four-year-old daughter not to traumatize her by making her the center of a fight she didn’t start.

Recently, I’ve been feeding him more meat and less canned foods. He’s doing even better and he’s almost 14 years old. Since he’s doing better and has bad kidneys–I’ve been following his diet of more protein, vegetables, and fruits, and wayyyyyyyyyyyyy less grain foods, no preservatives. My kidneys are responding to the change in the diet and are doing better. My friends who have Type 2 diabetes or are on dialysis are getting sicker following the “prescribed diets” for those diseases…less protein, more grains, and a modest amount of fruits and vegetables.

Imagine…

Doesn’t it break your heart to think of all the needless suffering caused by bad dietary advice?

It’s the program that is being labelled special, not the Women, Infants, and Children that it provides for.

This program is pretty good, in that the reason specific brands of cereals are specified is that they have to be low in sugar. That doesn’t help that it’s cereal in the first place.

You can buy full fat milk (and I did), cheese, eggs, and peanut butter. I just didn’t bother redeeming the cereal that I was allotted. The specifications for certain milks, eggs, and cheeses is that the food is supposed to be for the children and pregnant and nursing mothers, so they won’t pay for organic or gourmet items.

I like your term for it, especially if that means it’s served with scotch.

Hmmm…something about this sounds weird. How can the majority of the population be a special group? And secondly what is in men’s diets that is so bad for women and children to eat? And since when are infants not children?”

American nutrition is the Titanic? Going down with not enough lifeboats?

Interesting point you quoted from the Bologna Bible about encouraging access to grocery stores. I think it has been touched on here before, but the government seems to think convenience stores = bad, grocery stores = good. As a kid I would always go to the grocery store because I could get a king-size chocolate bar for the price of a convenience store snack size bar. This doesn’t take a genius.

By the way, does anyone ever think where the fat from reduced fat milk goes? Fed back to livestock. I’m yet to hear of all the coronary attacks these animals are having due to the artery clogging effect…

They want to fatten them up so they tell us not to eat them.

I have a public health degree. What this means is that I have more nutrition hours than an M.D. If it makes you feel any better, three different nutrition profs from two different schools have been saying much of the same stuff that’s here on Fat Head. All were huge into traditional diets, the defense of lard, very skeptical of calorie-in-calorie-out thinking, etc. So there’s hope!

Oh, and guys? Wanting healthy diets for all knows no political persuasion. I’m a pretty far left liberal with lots of libertarian leanings. I voted for Obama. (And I almost certainly will again.) I agree, our laws, both state and federal, are ridiculous in regard to food. The subsidy situation is a travesty. But I still want universal health care and government regulation of corporations.

Good to know there are a few nutrition professors out there who don’t preach from the low-fat hymnal.

I hear from skeptics now and then who huff and puff and ask why they should listen to a mere blogger instead of their doctors. I try to explain that their doctors have virtually no training in nutrition, but they don’t seem to believe it … even though other doctors are the ones who told me how little nutrition is covered in medical school.

Lunch meat rollups (they like cream cheese inside), apples or grapes, carrots, stews in a thermos cup, olives, nuts, slices of hot dogs or Polish sausages, a sandwich if they ask for it (they usually don’t), chicken if we have leftovers, cheese slices.

For anyone who doesn’t want to read the whole thing, my favorite bit is this explanation of the problem with hiding dissent:

And if you turn out wrong, the cost of your error is much lower: You always said you might be wrong.

So reversing course is much easier. This is a crucial advantage of letting opinion diversity show. An organization that sounds unanimous and confident about a decision can’t afford to learn later that it was a bad decision. It becomes a self-justifying organization instead of a learning organization. Such an organization is likely to stick stubbornly to its guns even in the face of increasing evidence that a different course of action would be better. By contrast, an organization that has been open about its own uncertainties and disagreements is far likelier to stay flexible.

Sound like the USDA? (And by the way, the Catholic church … but that’s a whole different story.)

One thing this program does do right is keep the person in front of you at the overpriced convenience store from buying two large Poweraid sports drinks(hello corn-syrup), two prepackaged ham sandwiches (that you could make at home for 1/10 of the price) and two fun size bags of chips then whipping out the old EBT (SNAP) credit card for her and her live in boyfriend who doesn’t qualify.