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If I was in your position, I would ease in to a whole food, plant based diet. What this means is a lot of cooking from scratch, which means hands! So how about

If I was in your position, I would ease in to a whole food, plant based diet. What this means is a lot of cooking from scratch, which means hands! So how about a whole food, plant based diet that requires very little preparation? This is serious, so please do not waste time with 'cut out teh carbz' bro science. Do not take advice from anyone that talks of 'seed oils' and other keto talking points. Keto and carnivore diets are fad diets that are just another way to get to calorie restriction. They are popular amongst people with protein obsessions and social media influencers, because who does not want to eat steak and butter? The whole food, plant based diet means no animal products, no refined sugars, no processed foods and lots of plants. Lots is important as vegetables, pulses, grains, beans and fruit are not as calorie dense as a lump of meat. You will need to be eating huge bowls of cooked food and not skipping meals just so you can get your calories in. On a whole food, plant based diet, you can vary your diet by the season. This means buying from the vegetable and fruit aisles, going for whatever is on offer. Due to the hands, you might want to buy lots of prepared frozen vegetables. Get the lot. Oils are what you don't want in your system. Clearly we need some fats but there are plenty in nuts. Personally I only use a small amount of mild olive oil in the air fryer, I don't have butter or fake spreads. Sugar is surprisingly easy to give up and comes with immediate health benefits as you have to home cook everything to avoid sugar. Sugar is in sauces and other savoury products that you would not expect. Once you have knocked off sugar, you can knock off the animal products and expand your repertoire of goto plant based recipes. What works for me is slow cooking. I usually start by putting a chopped onion and some garlic in the pot, to then add some starchy vegetables such as sweet potato, then some leafy greens, then a tonne of lentils and dried beans. If there is room I put even more vegetables in and add some herbs and spices. Sometimes this could be a curry, or it could be a new herb I am experimenting with. Ginger goes in quite often, there is no fixed recipe as recipes are boring. I usually add some chopped tomatoes, top up with water and set the thing to do its thing for about four hours. This approach means I am spending twenty minutes in the kitchen every day, in total. I often add grains such as rice or barley, or I add pasta to the pot after taking my first portion, adding water as appropriate. Grains or pasta does not take four hours, an hour should be good. This means my second portion is a variation on the first. To top out my slow cooked creation I put some tofu or even some vegetables such as broccoli in the air fryer, with some herbs. This gives different texture. Just by varying the ingredients I can get variety even though I am doing a one pot meal. Be an autodidact with this, implement your changes on a monthly basis and see how the inflammation in your hands changes. If you go WFPB then you should end up with excellent gut health, to be in the middle of the Bristol Poo Scale every time, with farts that don't smell. This is an elimination diet, specifically sugar and animal products. Once you have done the 'factory reset' then you can add in the favourites again, super sensitive to how you feel afterwards. Or you might not want to. I could not care for sugar when it was gone, and the same with dairy, which I thought I was wedded to. One pot meals, tray bakes and air fried things provide enough variety for me. I don't indulge in salads because of the lack of calories, and neither do I make smoothies because they are for babies, gym bros and people in care homes. Cooking is our original innovation and we need cooked food, mostly starches, to get the calories in.

srid 2y ago
> Keto and carnivore diets are fad diets that are just another way to get to calorie restriction I wouldn't be so confident in publicly discouraging my fellow human beings from trying these diets. Speaking personally, I tried various diets -- raw milk diet (drinking 4L of raw milk a day), vegan diet, fruitarian diet, keto diet, caloric restriction, etc. -- before discovering that the carnivore diet helped my own condition (induced by antibiotic abuse), and I wrote about it here: https://srid.ca/carnivore-diet https://srid.ca/carnivore-diet Diets are personal; people should experiment and find out for themselves. In the long term, therapies like FMT should become widely available, enabling many of us to eat a wider range of food stuff.
- Theodores 2y ago
  For some reason we have been dragging around this lower intestine that, if keto/carnivore fans would have you believe, we do not need. And that is true, there are people with colostomy bags that are high achievers, without having a functional lower intestine. Yet others believe that you should be eating all of these fancy probiotic and prebiotic foods to maintain 'gut health' of this lower intestine, as if your life depended on it. Assuming that both a keto/carnivore diet and a WFPB diet eliminated the food that was causing inflammation, let's say it was sugar, to relieve the arthritis flare ups, then you would think that it would not matter which solution was chosen by the OP. Well no. The WHO do not list carrots, potatoes and tomatoes as carcinogens. They are not so kind on meat products though. Or alcohol, for that matter. In my own situation, I have a heavy meat eating relative that is having another part of his digestive tract or waterworks operated on every year to remove cancer. He insists on all of the tests, PSA etc., however, I am not willing to just eat steak and get drunk every evening, dutifully getting my nether regions screened for cancer. He would have me believe that it is genetic and not to do with consuming carcinogens. I beg to differ. He has eliminated fibre from his diet, I have eliminated carcinogens. Fundamentally, our digestive tract is not that of a true carnivore, and, even if it was, there is a price to be paid for consuming animal fats and proteins. This is in the arteries. They get clogged, leading to strokes, heart disease and much else, including cancer, according to some. True carnivores don't live that long, compare the lifespan of the lion to that of its prey. This does not matter to them as they only need to get to reproductive age and procreate. After getting past the procreation age, priorities change at the individual level. I don't want to die of a heart attack in my fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties or nineties. There are two options for solving this problem, my relative with the cancer woes, steak in one hand, beer in the other, takes a smorgasbord of pills ranging from blood thinners, to statins to much else. He has had the heart bypass operations and more stents than I can count. Me, I see prevention as better than cure, so that means maintaining a BMI between 19 and 20 with optimal blood pressure, with no cause for blocked arteries due to a diet free of animal products combined with active travel (cycling rather than car dependency). My relative sees this as no fun at all. Yes, diets are personal. He sees a good weekend as down the pub eating steak and drinking beer, with good company. You can't argue with that, particularly if you are in your twenties. But, I don't want that to be the only option open to me. I like to be able to cycle near effortlessly, to go places and do things during the weekend, even if the only company I get on the way is at the acquaintance level. Each to their own, I get it. But I am not advocating anything weird. Raw milk, keto, fruitarian, carnivore, junk food vegan and plenty of other diets are weird. You need to be secretly wanting to be in a cult to sign up to these things. No processed food, no refined sugar, no animal products and no alcohol is not how I lived in my younger years, but the fate of my relatives and ancestors has made me embrace the WFPB diet.

srid 2y ago

> Keto and carnivore diets are fad diets that are just another way to get to calorie restriction I wouldn't be so confident in publicly discouraging my fellow human beings from trying these diets. Speaking personally, I tried various diets -- raw milk diet (drinking 4L of raw milk a day), vegan diet, fruitarian diet, keto diet, caloric restriction, etc. -- before discovering that the carnivore diet helped my own condition (induced by antibiotic abuse), and I wrote about it here: https://srid.ca/carnivore-diet https://srid.ca/carnivore-diet Diets are personal; people should experiment and find out for themselves. In the long term, therapies like FMT should become widely available, enabling many of us to eat a wider range of food stuff.

Theodores 2y ago
For some reason we have been dragging around this lower intestine that, if keto/carnivore fans would have you believe, we do not need. And that is true, there are people with colostomy bags that are high achievers, without having a functional lower intestine. Yet others believe that you should be eating all of these fancy probiotic and prebiotic foods to maintain 'gut health' of this lower intestine, as if your life depended on it. Assuming that both a keto/carnivore diet and a WFPB diet eliminated the food that was causing inflammation, let's say it was sugar, to relieve the arthritis flare ups, then you would think that it would not matter which solution was chosen by the OP. Well no. The WHO do not list carrots, potatoes and tomatoes as carcinogens. They are not so kind on meat products though. Or alcohol, for that matter. In my own situation, I have a heavy meat eating relative that is having another part of his digestive tract or waterworks operated on every year to remove cancer. He insists on all of the tests, PSA etc., however, I am not willing to just eat steak and get drunk every evening, dutifully getting my nether regions screened for cancer. He would have me believe that it is genetic and not to do with consuming carcinogens. I beg to differ. He has eliminated fibre from his diet, I have eliminated carcinogens. Fundamentally, our digestive tract is not that of a true carnivore, and, even if it was, there is a price to be paid for consuming animal fats and proteins. This is in the arteries. They get clogged, leading to strokes, heart disease and much else, including cancer, according to some. True carnivores don't live that long, compare the lifespan of the lion to that of its prey. This does not matter to them as they only need to get to reproductive age and procreate. After getting past the procreation age, priorities change at the individual level. I don't want to die of a heart attack in my fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties or nineties. There are two options for solving this problem, my relative with the cancer woes, steak in one hand, beer in the other, takes a smorgasbord of pills ranging from blood thinners, to statins to much else. He has had the heart bypass operations and more stents than I can count. Me, I see prevention as better than cure, so that means maintaining a BMI between 19 and 20 with optimal blood pressure, with no cause for blocked arteries due to a diet free of animal products combined with active travel (cycling rather than car dependency). My relative sees this as no fun at all. Yes, diets are personal. He sees a good weekend as down the pub eating steak and drinking beer, with good company. You can't argue with that, particularly if you are in your twenties. But, I don't want that to be the only option open to me. I like to be able to cycle near effortlessly, to go places and do things during the weekend, even if the only company I get on the way is at the acquaintance level. Each to their own, I get it. But I am not advocating anything weird. Raw milk, keto, fruitarian, carnivore, junk food vegan and plenty of other diets are weird. You need to be secretly wanting to be in a cult to sign up to these things. No processed food, no refined sugar, no animal products and no alcohol is not how I lived in my younger years, but the fate of my relatives and ancestors has made me embrace the WFPB diet.