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Friday, March 11. 2016

The case against starving your teenage boy

Your Kids' Health, or Lefty Agenda? New York Times Says Boys Eat Too Much Protein


It is truly a peculiar issue, even for the New York Times. For growing boys, let them eat steak. Or at least all the burgers they can eat.

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Psychology, and Dr. Bliss at 14:33 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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re For growing boys, let them eat steak. Or at least all the burgers they can eat

Amen Doc.
#1 feeblemind on 2016-03-11 14:50 (Reply)
A new chapter needed in the War Against Boys? Ms. Hoff-Sommers was (and is) right.
#2 Jimmy don\'t play that on 2016-03-11 15:00 (Reply)
The two groups that should guzzle all the protein they want: growing children, and pregnant and/or nursing mothers. The common thread is nourishing future generations. The more people blather about how low portein and complex carbs are best, the fatter kids get and (perhaps) the shorter they will end up. Plus, the difference in calories and protein required to sustain a 6'2", 250 pound muscular son and a 100 lb 5 foot daughter....boys need more protein because they are usually bigger. It all reminds me of the way boys are bullied to be more feminine and sedentary in early elementary school. Not that all girls are wusses, but that there is something wrong when we expect boys to behave the way most eager-to-please little girls do....
#3 Retriever on 2016-03-11 15:16 (Reply)
Define protein sources, Windy.
#3.1 Ten on 2016-03-11 17:49 (Reply)
Lessee....... there's beef, pork, beef, cheese, eggs, beef, chicken, more beef, wild game meat, whey powder and specifically lots of beef! Oh, and lots of bacon, too!
#3.1.1 Old Codger on 2016-03-11 22:16 (Reply)
Nice list. Now define protein and its sources.

See, this meat = protein myth is typical for for the lifestyle-signalling, unthinking Epicurean rightists who've lost every political skirmish, battle, and war for the last 100 years to rally behind as their final defense against evil smelly hippies and Whole Foods. Be proud.

Did I already say that meat exclusively or better = protein is a myth?
#3.1.1.1 Ten on 2016-03-12 08:07 (Reply)
Ha! I remember coming home from school and drinking a half gallon of milk and eating two or three bowls of ice cream. Before dinner. And I was all muscle and no fat back then.

Those were the days.
#4 Jim on 2016-03-11 17:50 (Reply)
I remember those days well Jim! We'd finish basketball/football/Track practice or game & repair to the local Deli. The owner knew us so well he'd have the quarts of milk lined up & ready to go.
Teenaged boys should be crammed with all the protein they can consume & worked as hard can be managed.
#4.1 Quig on 2016-03-11 20:16 (Reply)
Sounds like a theory in search of affirmation. If all teenage boys became ill or died young or developed diseases than indeed we would have some evidence of what is claimed. But no! Instead we get ever increasing life expectancies and better health. I sometimes suspect that the problem is that many in the health field do not take statistics in college and have a misunderstanding of what statistical evidence proves or fails to prove. Therefore they see any anomaly as "proof" of something or other and coincidently as proof of whatever their biases happen to be.
#5 GoneWithTheWind on 2016-03-11 19:02 (Reply)

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