Triggered with HDF
HDF is an opinionated enneagram 8 husband, Dad, and propagandist of health and fitness. Join him as he takes on a world of provocative people and captivating events.
Triggered with HDF
#5- You and Your Bags are Gross! / RFK and HDF Unpack School Lunches
HDF dives into everyones fear of MAHA and reusing shopping bags.
We also tackle important societal issues, especially about our children’s health through discussions on school lunch programs and their nutritional value. Could the food kids eat in schools relate to broader health trends we observe today? As we dive into these pressing topics, we consider the responsibilities of adults in both guiding and educating kids amidst the noise of rapidly changing digital landscapes.
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Welcome to Triggered with your host HDF, an opinionated Enneagram 8 propagandist of health and fitness and pundit on provocative topics and current events. Let's get Triggered, let's get triggered and welcome to episode five. I know you've been anxiously awaiting that. We got a little bit behind this week, but we are back, got a hot topic today. I can't wait to get a little bit of response on this one. I don't think we'll be canceled, but I think there'll be some chatter, some people getting their undies in a ruffle, so to speak. Now let's just get logging on here.
Speaker 1:This is completely unrelated but the algorithm of your social media, let's call it Instagram. Today, I want you to. When you're sitting next to someone today, I want you to look at them, look across the room at them and just think how terrible the algorithm becomes in your Instagram once you have one bit of curiosity towards something and it doesn't even have to be a healthy curiosity. It could just be like something that you are disgusted by, nothing that you're interested in. But if you look at it once, just long enough, the algorithm knows. Oh, and if you share that with someone, even just to say this is appalling, it's there. So you go in that for you area your explore page, if you will, of social media, of Instagram. I mean, there are some disturbing things out there. I got to think that somebody is making a lot of money off that Like. This is the day and age where people with handicaps or you know I don't know if we can say that, but you know missing limbs maybe have a Tourette's. Even there's a very famous Bailey right. She's probably making tons of money. There are people with certain things out there that are just blowing up. As soon as you stare at them, them for one second, and even if it's an amazement or disgust, you're gonna get that. And uh, I guess it's just. If you look across the room at someone, you just know that I bet their explorer's really messed up. They're just, you know, the right, straight edge kind of you know white collar, kind of straight person that walks down the street. But I'm telling you there's someone that's making dough maybe a sour dough with their feet because they have no arms on their social media page, because one time they looked at it a little bit longer than they should have, and this is something to think about. So maybe you're just sitting next to your friend someday Say, hey, man, can you open up that phone? Let me just see your explore page real quick. Let me just see how demented you are. They're going to be horrified. I mean, I'm past horrified. I laugh at mine now because I can probably trace back that one time. It takes a while. It takes a while to reset that algorithm. Go look at oceans and fishies and nature pictures for about a month just to get rid of that sourdough baker with the pretty toes. It's going to take a while, all right.
Speaker 1:Well, I was just thinking this is the topic we're going to get into. I'm turned 50, I'm over 50. You get people around you. People die. You realize your kids are just in this. You're just in this moment with your kids. It's not gonna be forever, not to be depressing, but you just kind of accept there are bigger things and sadder things in life than some things that other people do. So you just kind of like roll with things. I've definitely kind of got more used to. People that know me are going to tell me I'm lying just because you're in my bubble and I tell you things one to one when I'm out in the world, I do allow certain things to happen. I might laugh through it. I may think that's a ridiculous thing, but I got to think that there's bigger things in this world that I need to deal with than what someone's opinion was. What someone said I don't know, just laugh at some people, just be happy that we have the ability to see different things. Okay, and I guess that's what this this is angle is going today is about accepting different things and having fun with it.
Speaker 1:All right, they're the people that bring their own bags to the grocery store. If you're listening today and you bring your own bag to the grocery store, you are gross. You're gross. Maybe this is part of your community that you live in, maybe that's a I don't know California maybe does something like that. Colorado, certain areas. Maybe they charge you a little bit for a bag. You could charge me a dollar for every bag plastic bag that I use in a grocery store. You could charge me $5. I'm not bringing my own bag to the store, all right, so you think you're saving the world with your little E coli-filled, disgusting bag for your organic kale that, if we go down that road, kale's disgusting and doesn't do any good for you. Don't quote me on that, I'm not a doctor. But ew, if you're going to bring your own bag, just know that I'm looking at you, I'm laughing at you, I'm disgusted by you. You're probably changing my algorithm as we speak, but I don't hate you. I love that you're able to bring your bag. I love that I get to watch you bring your bag and maybe you read something that told you you're saving the world one plastic bag at a time and you feel good about that. I'm happy that that brings you joy. I'm happy that I'm allowed to laugh at you being brought joy by that. But that's where we're at.
Speaker 1:So this week, last week, whatever week it was, I think it's calmed down just a little bit. But oh, the mahas, the maha triggers came out, came out. Everyone was freaked out by clean water and healthy children or whatever. That was about, right. I mean, oh, I don't know, we just everyone was lost their minds and I kind of look at it like the bag at the grocery store, like somebody wants to bring their bag.
Speaker 1:You might think it's gross, I think it's gross, but I don't know. You want to do it. Knock yourselves out, right? I mean this isn't even political, right? I know that people would say it's not political. They are political. I really mean, this is not political. There's no one to me that's like this guy that stepped in here. He's not. It's not a political thing for me. I hate politics. I really do. Do I have beliefs? They're all over the place, okay, um, every side is bonkers, right, we don't need if anybody who accepts a hundred percent of one side or the other is out of their minds and we don't need that kind of negativity, right? That's not what we're here for.
Speaker 1:But you know, you have to be curious as an adult. You owe it to the world, you owe it to your family, you owe it to yourself to be curious, and that means not sitting and staring at a TV all day, especially one channel, unless it's like an old TV. Yesterday I started watching Quincy. Now I'm really dating myself. Quincy gosh, that was like 1976 to, I want to say, 1983. Man, I was young, but I remember Quincy. Jack Klugman, look it up. If you're staring at that all day, have at it. But you know what I mean. If it's just a one-sided TV show that you're watching all day, you owe it to yourself to get up, turn the channel, turn it off, go, walk down the street and talk to 10 different people today. Right, get out there. And I'm curious.
Speaker 1:And one of my things I'm curious about health and wellness, right, this is kind of where I felt myself drawn for a long time, even before I got quote unquote into it. I've always been drawn to it. Right, I will take, and I've probably taken a hundred different supplements on and off. I see a commercial for it, I take it. If I hear a guy in a podcast talk about it, I take it. If someone passes by me and says, have you tried this? If I hear a guy in a podcast talk about it, I take it. If someone passes by me and says, have you tried this? I'll take it. It's trial and error and to me that's curiosity.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to look at someone and say, oh, you're completely wrong, without actually having some sort of idea that in my opinion, they're wrong and I'll try it out. I mean, you know who you are out there. All right, ready, I'm going to get a bunch of you, those people taking apple cider vinegar oh, my goodness, Are you still taking apple cider vinegar? If you are, what do they say? If you are, you need some face cream because you gotta be old. You are out of your mind.
Speaker 1:If you think this apple cider vinegar is doing anything for you except giving you bad breath and a nasty burp, okay, but have I tried that? Sure, I did. Years ago. I tried that Nonsense Did it Said, well, that's lame. You might think it works and in your brain I did this and I felt like a million bucks. Go for it If that effect makes you happy in life. But look how I got to try it. You got to try it and I got to learn that it's complete nonsense for me and you think it works for you.
Speaker 1:Have at it, I don't care. You're bringing your bags to the grocery store and I'm not, but we both end up with groceries. Right, it's fine. Except mine doesn't have organic kale and I do eat. Well, I eat clean, I try to eat organic. I filter my water. I avoid toxins, right? Do you guys have that Yuka app, y-u-k-a? Go out there and get it. It'll send you down rabbit holes, but you can scan food products and you can scan cosmetics and there's just little toxins in everything additives, what have you and it'll tell you what's in it. I mean, some of it might tell you that it's completely hazardous. Sucralose will always send it in the red and spinning. Some of you are okay with sucralose. Uh, is this good for your gut? Probably definitely not, but you get to make the choice of like ah, I'm going to go with sucralose. I don't think it's that bad, but it's a great thing to use when you're just trying to do your best, and that's really all we can do is try to do our best.
Speaker 1:We are in this world of constant information. Do you realize how lucky we are? Our parents didn't have this. No one before us had this. Our kids will never know what it's like not to think of something and have the answer, and answer immediately. How amazing is that? So I think that, as an adult, our kids are doing it. Our kids are constantly looking up stuff and learning stuff, and who knows what they're going to learn? They can be swayed one way or the other just based on their exploration. Right, we can absorb this stuff 24-7.
Speaker 1:Now, some people you know who you are you can just sit there and absorb hundreds of pieces of information, and some people and you know who they are can really only handle one or two at a time. Welcome to the world. We're all a little bit different as far as our uptake on information right. Some are smarter than others. Some of can really only handle one or two at a time. Welcome to the world. We're all a little bit different as far as our uptake on information right. Some are smarter than others. Some of them are stronger than others. Some of them are faster than others. We all have our talents.
Speaker 1:Oh, but goodness, enter RFK. Oh, there it is. Rfk comes in and everyone loses their minds. What are we doing Now? He has opinions on things and some people got really mad about his opinions. Listen, there are some things that he's. I'll give you one. There was one thing about something like brain. The brainwaves of your cell phone are going to kill you, wi-fi or whatever.
Speaker 1:Now, some people out there might think that, and I might think maybe, but based on what I've seen, everyone's not running around with a tumor in their head and I think it's probably not. Look, I can take a piece of information and I can let it go. Everybody out there, try to let it go. If you have taken hundreds of pieces of information and you made an opinion, just run with that opinion and everyone else let it go. In a hated sort of way. Let it go and say at least I have the opportunity to be different than that person. You're not forced to do that, right? But you also have to accept that every piece of information has an angle and some people say no, some people say they're non-biased. But you owe it to I start off in the beginning. You owe it to yourself to be curious, okay. And if you're curious enough, you're going to take a piece of information and you might want to do research on that and find out where the information came from, and you can accept where that information came from and still hold that opinion. That's okay. I can think that the opinion is not valid based on where it came from, because humans that's what's crazy that we can do that Everyone is paid.
Speaker 1:Everything you see, everything you do, everyone is paid and that's okay. I mean it's not okay, but it's okay because it's just ubiquitous, right. Everything is. And more money, more influence, right? Let's? Just my bone that I love to pick at are kids. I don't care what adults do, I really don't, I don't. We went through a pandemic. If an adult wanted to do this or do that, let them do it.
Speaker 1:I always defended a kid and you don't have to have kids to defend kids. But you've got to think of kids. They are the most naive empty slates in the world. And if you think about it, if you're as old as I am, how we just went in the woods and we went on the streets and we walked miles without our parents even knowing we did so many things that we explored, we had no clue and we just absorbed the world naturally. And unfortunately, now with electronics and social media, our kids are getting force-fed more things sooner than they really should before their brains adapt. So I feel like I can project my childhood on my kid. Now listen, kids are property. I get it. My kids can do my kids. But if I feel like a kid is wronged, I'm going to do my best not to step on someone else's toes, not to step on a parent's toes, not to call out a parent and be mean to a parent, but just advocate for kids.
Speaker 1:Kids today are a mess. They're a mess. If you go into a school and I'm going to go with public school my kids go to public school, right, not going to the private school. But so I have to deal with the public school. They're a mess. Kids are inactive okay, school is made to make them inactive public school. Okay, they're overweight and everyone hates to admit that, but they are. They're inactive and they're overweight and, as you know, as an adult you want to lose weight, right. You kind of have to check what goes in your mouth first before you start hitting the gym. Gym's great, activity's great, but your mouth is what's going to change your life.
Speaker 1:Kids are eating garbage and if you want to go down a rabbit hole of information again, believe it, don't believe it. But if you go, read ingredients from today versus when, let's go 25 years ago, the food is different. Of course it's different. We've grown, we've gotten higher technologies, we've figured out shortcuts. Work smarter, not harder. You really can't blame the food companies so much. I mean you want to, but what do they owe you? They owe you a food. They don't owe you anything, that's, if it's not killing you and you're eating it, who do they care you? You owe the world to be curious. So be curious. Okay, the food we ate back then is not the same as we are now. If you're denying that, then you are still staring at the one channel on the TV.
Speaker 1:Okay, if someone wants to give information about that and you don't read it, well, it's on you. You're lacking the curiosity, you don't have to buy into it. But wouldn't you want to hear something possible that, especially if it's your kids, something possible that, especially if it's your kids? If someone came to me and said this is something that's destroying kids, I am reading and listening to every word of it. I might close it and say you're out of your mind. But you bet your butt I'm listening to it.
Speaker 1:Okay, you go to school. There's no nuts. Thank goodness there's no nuts. We know about the nut kids. Nothing against the nut kids. I feel terrible for them. Can you imagine not being to enjoy a Reese's peanut butter cup? And if you say Reese's, just turn this off and unfollow me because it's not Reese's. That makes my ears bleed. It's Reese's. Okay, but we're safe. No nuts. There's signs on the door no nuts in this classroom. Please don't bring nuts in.
Speaker 1:But you know what's in a school, a public school? Doritos, okay, pop tarts, I am not kidding you. Cheetos, yeah, that's right. No nuts, that kid's safe. But go into the snack room. Go into the lunchroom and see what kids are eating. Okay, into the snack room. Go into the lunchroom and see what kids are eating. Okay, they're eating Doritos and Pop-Tarts at four o'clock every day the public school that my kid goes to. They open a snack box. They open a snack box and they say eat this.
Speaker 1:You've been trapped in your prison all day and had 20 minutes of running around where they were told to not talk and to focus, and they hand them Doritos at four o'clock Okay. Then they immediately say sit down, we need quiet for a couple minutes. So you took a kid out of prison I mean school all day. You fed them Doritos and then told them to sit down and then gets reprimanded for talking and acting out. These kids want to play, okay, and you just fed them the chemicals and the type of foods that make kids hyperactive. Right, gives them that ADD. Oh, but there's no nuts. Thank goodness.
Speaker 1:If you could protect the nut kid, why can't we protect every kid? What are we doing? What are we doing? But let's get triggered by Maha. Let's get triggered by listen. If it was just called a health initiative, then maybe less people would be triggered. I get it. It's very polarizing the way it's been labeled. I'm polarized by it. I get it. But we've got to just let the title pass and understand that it's undeniable what we're looking at with our own eyes. We are messing with kids beyond belief. As an adult, you can take the same steps, but if you don't, that's on you. Guess what? You don't live as long to see your kid grow up. You're 50 years old Congrats. You might have 20, 25 years left. Maybe you'll see your grandkids for five minutes. That's on you. That's fine, but we cannot take our kids down that path.
Speaker 1:During this whole news cycle and everyone being triggered by our friend, someone stood up on stage behind a microphone and declared that the National School Lunch Program is based on science. With a straight face, told America and anyone else who's listening that the National School Lunch Program that's public school kids, national School Lunch Program is based on science. How did we get this far? How did we get this far? We've all heard about the food pyramid and how backwards it is. Grains are on the base of it. You know that's not true anymore. We all have learned If this is your first day learning that welcome Grains as a primary food source is completely bogus.
Speaker 1:You need protein. Protein is the number one macronutrient in your entire life. For everything that you do, protein is 150%, the number one thing that you need to get. I don't know where you want to get that. Some people are against meat. Some people want the meat alternatives. That's another rabbit hole you can go be curious about that. If you're eating the meat alternatives, you probably bring your bags to the grocery store and that's gross. They're both gross.
Speaker 1:Let me just read a little bit for you about the National School Lunch Program. This is a little blurb. It's available on the internets. There are requirements of how much servings per week, how many servings per week you're supposed to have, and a minimum per day that you're supposed to have. Okay, so, for instance, five cups of milk a week. Like five cups of milk, right. Five days, five cups of milk, so minimum one cup a day. Eight ounces of milk. I'm all right with milk. Milk's great. Have at it. It's low fat milk, which I think is nonsense. You should be drinking full fat milk, because we've all learned that fat is not a problem around here. Now let's go to the meats. Now we learn that the pyramid's nonsense and we know that protein's the most important.
Speaker 1:I would say that a kid, that's K through five and TBH a K through forever. I was growing through college. You need protein. They're growing, so you have these growing plants, trees, whatever you want to call these children. Okay, they need protein.
Speaker 1:Your public school, k through five has to have eight to 10 servings per week of protein or protein alternative. Okay, with a minimum of one serving. Okay, one serving, let's just go with one serving. Your kid goes to school and they have their one serving. So maybe this day is I don't know it's the pizza day. Everyone has that pizza day. Minimum credible serving is .25 ounces .25 ounces, 0.25 ounces. So go out there. No nuts, don't give those nuts, but let's go with the Doritos and 0.25 ounces of meat or
Speaker 1:meat alternative. Oh, good God, if it's meat alternative, what is happening? You've got to do your research, figure out how to feed your kids. We do our best 80-20, right? I hate it and sometimes I can't win the fight, but there are battles through the entire day. If your kid's at school, you own breakfast, you own dinner, maybe you even own their snacks, okay, you've got to find a way to negate that. Okay. But when someone comes in here and tells you that they want to reform the school lunch program and you say, oh, it's based on science, you need to do the research. Okay,
Speaker 1:do it. I'm going to leave you with this. I have a chart that a friend sent me and I'm just going to read off a few things. I know we don't like reading off things it kind of takes us away from my wonderful personality. But it's been spreading on the and I think what it was. This chart was meant to be a negative towards that healthy movement. Okay, there's been a lot of talk about dyes and chemicals in food and by telling America we need to take that on, I think this chart was put out against it and I look at it as a positive reinforcement of the whole healthy movement. It's a pie chart and it says chemicals in food and it's in quotes because we're not allowed to say real chemicals because we'd be admitting fault, right. So we put chemicals in quotes and it's a little sliver of a pie little sliver, I mean, it's probably one, I don't know one 60th of a pie. And inside the pie there are lifestyle factors. No kidding, okay, we all know the lifestyle factors. If your lifestyle is terrible, the chemicals are just adding to it. But if you are trying to live a better life, those chemicals are going to be very important to
Speaker 1:you so. Lack of exercise not planning right. Plan your every day. My kid walks out of here. I go here's a snack high-protein snack. Plan right. Plan your Every day. My kid walks out of here. I go here's a snack high-protein snack.
Speaker 1:Plan right. Poor sleep your kids go to school too early. School that begins before 8 o'clock is absolutely absurd for a growing child. Coaches out there, you listen to me oh, your little 5 am, 5.30 practices. You think you're tough. You're doing kids a disservice and you're hurting their brains and you're hurting their schoolwork. You're hurting a lot of things. Let your kids sleep right. You have your parents overworking. There's also socioeconomic factors here. We all understand that. We're not
Speaker 1:denying that. Stress your kid can have stress. You could put stress on your kid. Your job stress can be passed down right. And choosing processed, convenient foods that lack nutrition, obviously. So you want to choose processed, convenient foods that lack nutrition. Of course those are bad and those are the ones with the chemicals. So anyway, there are lots of lifestyle factors that come into play. Chemicals are a small part of that. But my final words are as adults, even as kids if you're a teen kid, if you're a young kid, stay off the internet. Don't do anything stupid. Don't have opinions on anything. Trust your parents hopefully, that are being curious. Go out there, hear both sides of it. Hear all sides of it. Try something. Give it a week. If it doesn't look like it's going to kill you, give it a week or two. Give it a month. See what happens. But for the love of everything, please be curious out there. Stop being triggered by someone who wants to be healthy, because you should be healthy. Healthy. America is a good America and we'll talk to you next time.