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I'm not by any means meat-free, but it's really quite easy (and tasty) to cut 80% or more of your weekly meat diet. We do this at home by making lots of hearty

• RspecMAuthortah 5y ago
  For me at least, since switching to a complete meat based diet I have had a lot of my digestive issues along with host of other problems (better sleep for example but that could be because I don't have to wake up middle of the night from the esophageal pain) completely gone. I also feel a lot better mental health wise(again could be because I have better sleep). I understand I might be an anecdote.
  • r00fus 5y ago
    Often, getting a specialized diet prevents you from eating over-processed foods, which would cut down on potential problems your body may have with them. It's the same with a low-meat diet since so many restaurants don't offer food without meat - you end up not eating out as much or selecting healthier items.
  • nicoburns 5y ago
    What were you eating before?
  • albertgoeswoof 5y ago
    A complete meat diet?
    • dwohnitmok 5y ago
      It happens. E.g. the Inuit traditional diet is effectively entirely meat/animal products. Non-animal products make up a tiny sliver of the traditional diet.
      • spicymaki 5y ago
        Yeah no thanks, the Inuit lifestyle does not seem healthy. The Inuit currently have lifespans that are about 13 years less than the average Canadian lifespan. Even that is an improvement of 29 years from the 1940s. [0] [0] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/82-003-x/2008001/article/10463/4149059-eng.htm https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/82-003-x/2008001/article...
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        • dwohnitmok 5y ago
          I have no particular take on the health of the Inuit diet; I bring it up mainly to indicate that there are people who do go essentially their whole lives on just a meat diet. However your statistics there have way too many confounding factors to attribute anything substantial to the native diet. Infant mortality rates historically and remain (comparatively) very high. Alcoholism is rampant among Canadian indigenous people. Even among peoples who have similar diets such as e.g. Metis, Inuit and First Nations peoples, life expectancy is significantly different (this is before even getting into a comparison with other meat-eating cultures in the world). There is virtually no signal here to determine the healthiness of an Inuit-style diet either way.
  • jimnotgym 5y ago
    Can you tell us more? You went 100% meat and your digestive system for better? What is an average meal for you?
  • pigeonhole123 5y ago
    Same here. I never tolerated legumes well, and cutting all plants and especially ones containing fiber cured my IBS and got rid of my chronic inflammation. For anyone curious Paul Mason has a few talks about fiber.
• amelius 5y ago
  +1 It's also healthier to cut down on meat.
  • dawnerd 5y ago
    But is it really? We're omnivores. Our bodies are designed to eat meat. I went hardcore keto and only eat meat + cheese and I've lost a ton of weight and lowered my BP etc. That is way healthier than what I was before so I'm not sure the argument cutting down on meat is healthy.
    • exdsq 5y ago
      Yes, support for this is practically unanimous by health research on the topic. Obviously there's orders of 'bad', with processed meats being worse than red meats, and red meats worse than say lean white meats, and the quantity matters too. The whole omnivore argument tends to assume we used to eat tons of meat all the time but it was a rarity until fairly recently in our history.
      • dawnerd 5y ago
        Yes, I've seen plenty of these studies but all of them have too many variables at play. Actual proof that meat is bad is very foggy at best. Edit: I'm not arguing either way - I just don't buy into this whole meat is bad for you argument.
        • invalidname 5y ago
          The argument about processed foods (meat and otherwise) is pretty solid. Red meat... Open to debate. You need to keep in mind that most of our baselines come from the mid 20th century. Where everyone ate meat, so our definition of "healthy" is based on 70 year old averages. The median for "healthy" is a meat eater. My spouse is vegan and super healthy. Yet some of her blood-works are borderline. As far as we can tell it's because she's vegan. It's the stats themselves that are biased against veganism. I think that if the studies were corrected meat eating would look MUCH worse than it does now.