From craigslist:
I have 2 dogs & I was buying a large bag of Pal at Big W and standing inline at the check out.
A woman behind me asked if I had a dog.
On impulse, I told her that no, I was starting The Pal Diet again . . . I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pants pockets with Pal nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry & that the food is nutritionally complete.
Not absurd. Sclafani and Springer (1976) compared two groups of rats: (a) rats given rat chow (which resembles Pal nuggets) and (b) rats given rat chow plus human food (e.g., salami, cheese). Both groups could eat as much as they wanted. The second group gained a lot more weight than the first. I suspect rat chow is less fattening than human food because it is more bland and digested more slowly. This is one of the experiments that led me to the theory behind the Shangri-La Diet.
And of course, there’s the Monkey Chow Diet: https://www.angryman.ca/monkey.html
Thanks for the link. The big difference is that dog food is a lot more available than monkey chow.
Let’s not forget, if you do go on a animal chow diet — don’t add water!! [see Seth’s Shangri-La Diet appendix page pp153-154]
That is correct: don’t add water.