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This is ideally a great product, if you can solve three practical problems.

1. Nutritional needs depend on age, time, body, activities, etc.

2. The desire for tasty food often greatly out-weights the desire for nutritional food.

3. Evolutionarily, we were designed to want more than what we need.



Well there are some solutions to those problems, #1 is simple, they do it with dog food. You just need a junior, adult, senior and light varieties (which may help in regards to #3 by being able to eat larger portion sizes if you're hungry).

#2 might be a little trickier, although if it's sold how it's shown in the show (literally as human dog food in giant bags) you could easily include a dozen flavor packets. If the food on its own was fairly flavorless, preferably with a meat-like quality to mix well with different flavor packs.

#3 is probably the trickiest. The solution is probably just like any food, moderation. However, when people receive adequate nutrition this behavior does tend to decrease, but evolution is a harsh mistress and like most animals we've evolved to build up fat reserves to try and survive.

Honestly #1 and #2 can easily be solved by standard market practices in both dog food and human pre-made meals. #3 is the stickler and aside from moderation I don't know what could help, except maybe a big sticker saying 'THREE MEALS IS ALL YOU NEED' might subconsciously stop a few of the gullible people who respond easily to suggestion (read: the people who keep telemarketers rich).




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