18/06/2025
THE PUPPY FOOD SCAM
Why do we have complete food for pups and yet I have no idea how much magnesium my child needs let alone where they get it or if they're getting enough?
Not relevant for human kids.
We don't know a single one of their RDAs, isn't that weird?!
And you know who else doesn't? Your pups Mum. Can't even spell magnesium.
Now my kids are off Mum they just eat what we eat, a bit more mash-y at the start and, well, fingers crossed!
No NUTRITIOUS Mars or Nestlé products for us. You're actually told as a parents you're a bit s**t if feed that crap to them.
I mean, I couldn't name a single good product of theirs I'd like to see my kids chomping on daily.
Not one.
Can you?! Answers on a postcard.
I guess the candy companies keep all the good stuff for the animals. They would, wouldn't they?! They bloody LOVE our dogs, after all. Humans, not so much, clearly, but for puppies, absolutely, they want the very BEST. Of course. I can TOTALLY see why vets (paid by Purina) would say that.
And lucky they do as the hairy babies in our house, we are told, are actually very complex. They need "science" or they will DIE.
I was on the A Bit On the Side last night explaining how mother nature accommodates for the slightly different and often varying nutritional needs of a baby to child to adult. Why we parents don't have to lose sleep over how much of what and when.
Here's how it works:
The body uses specific mineral transporters which work in the gut tissue. If the body need some zinc, it ramps up transporters for zinc. These draw more zinc in from the food to the gut tissue. Different transporters then take this zinc from the tissue to where it's needed.
And when the body needs less zinc, they downregulate their action. Neato.
It's almost like mother nature knew this was going to be an issue and took steps to ensure it wasn't....soooo our kids wouldn't die.
Studies show young kids (and nutrient-deficient individuals) have far more of these transporters in the gut lining than folk with optimum zinc levels.
It's an active, responsive, adaptive process.
This means me and you can eat the same meal with the same amount of zinc but one of us, depending on what's going on, will take in more zinc from the food bolus than the other.
Simple.
We have other tricks too. The body loves having a fairly stable amount of metals in the blood. Should we have too much zinc in the blood after a period of activity, and the stores are full, the body will usually expel it in the poo and wee. In times of need, however, we expel significantly less. We choose to store it instead.
All very obvious stuff but this simple process is why a GOOD DIET with VARIATION is literally the ONLY DIET MY KIDS NEED and why my child's recent addiction to banana sandwiches is less alarming than it is for folk who believe fast food clows are their pals, that their owning of all the doctors that treat the disease caused by such a start in life is just a coincidence.
