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Devil's Advocate (also personal experience): http://meatheals.com http://meatheals.com

by sridca 8y ago

cageface 8y ago
Carnivore diets can help people with damaged guts. But you’re much better off fixing your gut than adopting a diet that is longer term going to cause a lot of other serious problems.
- sridca 8y ago
  Fixing the gut is impossible in certain cases. And carnivore diet has be shown to cause no long-term problems in subjects before.
  - cageface 8y ago
    A strict carnivore diet contains no vitamin C, so you’ll get scurvy if you follow it religiously. And a diet so high in saturated fat and cholesterol will massively increase your risk of heart disease. This is documented in literally hundreds of studies. Annecdotally I have several friends that have dramatically improved their cholesterol levels by cutting out all animal products from their diet. I think it’s also worth mentioning that the carnivore diet is the absolute worst diet imaginable in terms of the environment and animal welfare. It’s a selfish diet for rich people. The only populations we know of that eat this way have serious athlerosclerois issues and short life spans or, in the case of the Masai, a rare mutation that makes it easier for them to live on this kind of diet.
    - sridca 8y ago
      I'd like to hear of even one of those hundreds of studies that shows that a strict carnivore diet (not a hybrid diet) leads to those problems. I bet you can't because they don't exist. If so the words you write here are but reflective of your beliefs. Which is not gonna help anyone (I'm certainly glad that I did not come across these words while looking to resolve a chronic medical condition).
      - cageface 8y ago
        There are plenty of studies of populations that historically have eaten essentially carnivore diets. The Masai and the Inuit are the two most common. They have all the problems I've enumerated. If you think about it for even five minutes a diet with zero fiber and zero vitamin C makes no sense.
        sridca 8y ago
        I prefer to be well-informed[1] than think about it for five minutes. And no wonder you can't cite any specific study I requested for. :P [1] https://youtu.be/isIw2AN_-XU https://youtu.be/isIw2AN_-XU

Devil's Advocate (also personal experience): http://meatheals.com http://meatheals.com

by sridca 8y ago

Devil's Advocate (also personal experience): http://meatheals.com http://meatheals.com

Carnivore diets can help people with damaged guts. But you’re much better off fixing your gut than adopting a diet that is longer term going to cause a lot of other serious problems.

sridca 8y ago
Fixing the gut is impossible in certain cases. And carnivore diet has be shown to cause no long-term problems in subjects before.
- cageface 8y ago
  A strict carnivore diet contains no vitamin C, so you’ll get scurvy if you follow it religiously. And a diet so high in saturated fat and cholesterol will massively increase your risk of heart disease. This is documented in literally hundreds of studies. Annecdotally I have several friends that have dramatically improved their cholesterol levels by cutting out all animal products from their diet. I think it’s also worth mentioning that the carnivore diet is the absolute worst diet imaginable in terms of the environment and animal welfare. It’s a selfish diet for rich people. The only populations we know of that eat this way have serious athlerosclerois issues and short life spans or, in the case of the Masai, a rare mutation that makes it easier for them to live on this kind of diet.
  - sridca 8y ago
    I'd like to hear of even one of those hundreds of studies that shows that a strict carnivore diet (not a hybrid diet) leads to those problems. I bet you can't because they don't exist. If so the words you write here are but reflective of your beliefs. Which is not gonna help anyone (I'm certainly glad that I did not come across these words while looking to resolve a chronic medical condition).
    - cageface 8y ago
      There are plenty of studies of populations that historically have eaten essentially carnivore diets. The Masai and the Inuit are the two most common. They have all the problems I've enumerated. If you think about it for even five minutes a diet with zero fiber and zero vitamin C makes no sense.
      - sridca 8y ago
        I prefer to be well-informed[1] than think about it for five minutes. And no wonder you can't cite any specific study I requested for. :P [1] https://youtu.be/isIw2AN_-XU https://youtu.be/isIw2AN_-XU