Controversial Thoughts: Can Kids Eat an Animal-Based Diet?

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Paul Saladino, MD

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🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

I don't have kids and I would never tell parents how to feed their children, but I get asked this question quite a bit and thought I would offer my ideas about how I might feed my kids in the future, and how I've recommended my sister feed my niece and nephew.

The short answer to this question is that kids can absolutely eat an Animal Based diet, and that doing so will avoid SO MUCH consternation at the dinner table when parents realize they don't have to force their children to eat vegetables.

As I discuss in this video, when presented with unprocessed food children naturally select meat, organs, and fruit for the majority of their diets...

Anyone with children probably already knows this. It's not hard to get kids to eat fresh fruit, or well prepared (not burned!) hamburger, etc.. but vegetables must be hidden in other foods (like eggs), or covered in sauces like ketchup (which has a ton of sugar)...

I know there will be someone in this thread who says "my kid loves vegetables!" to which I would ask- how much have you modeled this behavior for them and how many sauces are you putting on these?

I discuss a study in this video in which 6-11 month old children had no modeling of food behaviors but were allowed to self-select and they consistently went for animal foods (including organs!) and fruit.

If you don't think there's any way your kids would eat organs, consider opening a capsule or two of one of our supplements like Beef Organs from @heartandsoilsupplements over their food or mixing with applesauce etc...

If you catch them early, kids will definitely self-select organs but once a child have moved beyond a year or so without being exposed to these it's much less likely- this is where the desiccated organs can be great!

Healthy parents- healthy kids. #theremembering

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0:00.0	What is up you guys? Welcome to another edition of controversial thoughts.
0:04.0	This week I wanted to talk about animal-based diets in kids.
0:09.0	I will start off this controversial thoughts episode with a disclaimer that I do not have children.
0:15.0	But I have nieces and nephews and I have a sister who has children.
0:18.0	And I want to make these statements based on what I might recommend for them
0:24.0	or what I might recommend for my own children in the future.
0:27.0	Should I have them? None of this is meant to be medical advice.
0:30.0	Nor would I ever presuppose or try to tell parents what to feed their kids.
0:35.0	This is just meant to be helpful in my opinion about how appropriate or not an animal-based diet might be for kids.
0:43.0	I got a message recently on Instagram from someone asking,
0:46.0	what should I feed my baby? What might the first foods for a child be after breast milk?
0:51.0	And this got me thinking about this question.
0:54.0	If we take any indication from hunter gatherer tribes like the Hodza,
0:58.0	who I have observed, meat and organs and fruit are often the first foods given to babies,
1:06.0	not rice cereal or wheat cereal like we do in the states.
1:09.0	In fact, I don't have any idea why those are the first foods given to infants here in the United States.
1:16.0	So from my perspective at the outset, I will say that I think an animal-based diet consisting of meat, organs,
1:23.0	and the least toxic plant foods, namely fruit.
1:26.0	We have to be careful with children under one year old, specifically.
1:29.0	That's a caveat to this whole discussion.
1:31.0	I think our great foods for young, tiny humans,
1:35.0	those being six months old beyond once they've stopped breastfeeding.
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