Public Health

Feeding your kids meat and eggs is healthy and nutritious at any age! This seems to upset people who don't know the facts and the truth.

Summary

Dr. Ken Berry passionately defends and explains the carnivore diet for babies, toddlers, children, teenagers, and adults, addressing recent media coverage and controversies surrounding the topic. He references a balanced Wall Street Journal article, an NBC News feature, and a contentious Fox News interview where he presented the carnivore diet as a natural, nutrient-dense way to feed children, emphasizing meat and eggs as essential foods for optimal growth and brain development. Dr. Berry highlights that meat provides critical nutrients such as B12, iron, zinc, and vitamin C (which many critics wrongly claim is absent from meat). He critiques mainstream pediatric advice promoting variety that includes grains and processed foods, pointing out the prevalence of glyphosate contamination in cereals and the poor nutritional value of such foods.

During the Fox News segment, Dr. Berry strongly rebuts the opposing expert, Dr. Mark Seagull, who claimed that meat is addictive, inflammatory, and lacks essential vitamins like vitamin C. Dr. Berry argues that Dr. Seagull, an internal medicine doctor who does not treat children, lacks understanding of pediatric nutrition and human evolutionary dietary evidence. He offers to engage in a respectful debate to clarify misconceptions.

Dr. Berry also shares personal anecdotes about raising his children carnivore-style, noting their exceptional growth and health. He stresses that the carnivore diet is not a fad but the original human diet dating back thousands of years, backed by anthropological evidence. He further educates viewers about the dangers of ultraprocessed foods, the epidemic of childhood type 2 diabetes linked to carb-heavy diets, and the superior nutrient density of animal-based foods compared to plant-based or grain-based diets.

The video concludes with Dr. Berry answering audience questions about keto, carnivore, skin conditions, blood pressure, and practical feeding tips for children. He invites parents and caregivers skeptical of mainstream nutrition advice to join a supportive community advocating a proper human diet centered on meat and eggs.

Highlights

• 🥩 Meat and eggs are essential, nutrient-dense foods for human babies and children.
• 📉 Childhood type 2 diabetes and metabolic diseases are linked to carb-heavy, ultraprocessed diets, not meat consumption.
• 🍊 Fresh meat contains vitamin C, countering the myth that only fruits and vegetables provide it.
• ⚖️ The carnivore diet is an ancestral, historically proven way humans have fed babies for millennia.
• 🥣 Most supermarket cereals contain glyphosate and are nutritionally poor “poverty foods.”
• ❌ Dr. Berry challenges misinformation about meat being addictive or inflammatory, especially from non-pediatric experts.
• 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 A supportive community exists for parents feeding their children meat-based diets, countering societal and marketing pressures.

Key Insights

• 🧬 Nutritional Completeness of Meat for Children: Dr. Berry emphasizes that meat and eggs provide all essential amino acids, healthy fats, vitamins (notably B12 and A), minerals like iron and zinc, and even vitamin C—nutrients critical for rapid growth phases in babies and toddlers. The small stomach capacity of infants makes nutrient density crucial, which cereals and processed vegetable purees lack. This insight challenges the common assumption that plant-based or grain-heavy diets are suitable for early childhood nutrition.

• 🧪 Scientific and Anthropological Evidence Supports Carnivore Feeding: Contrary to common pediatric recommendations, historical and anthropological data show that humans have traditionally fed babies meat and animal fats first. These practices were trial-and-error-tested over thousands of years, with animal fats believed to promote brain development. This positions the carnivore diet not as a new fad but as a return to evolutionary dietary norms.

• 🚫 Critique of Processed Foods and Cereal Marketing: Dr. Berry exposes the cereal aisle as a source of glyphosate contamination and nutrient-poor “poverty foods” that require fortification to provide minimal vitamins and minerals. He highlights the role of aggressive marketing in misleading parents about what constitutes healthy baby food, contributing to chronic disease epidemics.

• 🥊 Media Misrepresentation and Expert Disagreement: The video illustrates how media outlets present divergent views on carnivore diets for kids. While the Wall Street Journal and NBC provided relatively balanced coverage, Fox News featured a controversial rebuttal from Dr. Seagull, who inaccurately labeled meat as addictive and inflammatory. Dr. Berry points out the importance of credentials relevant to pediatric nutrition and calls for evidence-based discussions rather than repeating outdated or unsupported claims.

• 🧠 The Role of Fiber and Vitamin C Misconceptions: A common pediatric concern is that meat-based diets lack vitamin C and fiber, essential for health. Dr. Berry corrects this by explaining that fresh meat contains vitamin C and that phytonutrients and fiber are not essential nutrients. Thousands of carnivore dieters thrive on zero fiber diets, which challenges the dogma that fiber is indispensable.

• 🔄 Carnivore Diet as Part of a Dietary Spectrum: Dr. Berry clarifies that the carnivore diet is one end of the “proper human diet” spectrum, which ranges from low-carb to keto to carnivore. This flexibility allows for individualized nutrition strategies based on age, metabolic health, and activity levels, emphasizing that meat and eggs are foundational regardless of exact carb intake.

• 👶 Positive Outcomes in Children on Carnivore Diets: Personal evidence includes Dr. Berry’s children being in the 99th percentile for height with healthy weights, no metabolic disease, and excellent development. Additionally, many parents report resolution of skin conditions like eczema and acne on carnivore diets, demonstrating the therapeutic potential of animal-based nutrition in pediatric health.

Additional Context

Dr. Berry’s discussion also touches on the broader societal and cultural challenges of adopting carnivore diets for children, including overcoming family skepticism and marketing pressures. He encourages parents to seek community support and reliable information to confidently feed their children nutrient-dense animal foods rather than processed carbs marketed as “healthy.”

This video provides a comprehensive defense of carnivore diets for the entire human lifespan, especially infancy and childhood, supported by clinical experience, evolutionary biology, and critical evaluation of current nutrition dogma and media narratives.