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Florida man eats diet of butter, cheese, beef; cholesterol oozes from his body
- qup 2y agoThat's a superpower, I'm just not sure it's a useful one.
- Uptrenda 2y agoI seriously wonder how his hospital admission went. "Help me nurse... I think I'm turning into butter..."
- dismalaf 2y agoPeople always go on these extreme diets... From raw veganism to stuff like this. What's wrong with just eating a bit of meat, fish, vegetables, carbs and fats? Just nice, real food in moderate amounts...
- oconnore 2y ago> What's wrong with just eating a bit For one thing you won't get many likes, subscribes, retweets, or what have you.
- tobr 2y agoThe case is being studied and reported because it’s unusual. I’m not so sure that ”people always” is the right take here.
- dylan604 2y agoMy favorite extreme eating are the people that take the silver to the point of changing the color of their skin and act as if everything is fine.
- ender341341 2y agoWhile this is a particularly extreme example but I think most fad diets work because being so different from a normal diet people have to actually stop and think about what they're eating and make some level of plan around it which is easier to skip if you're just trying moderation where it's easier to grab something anywhere.
- bluGill 2y agoThat is also why the second round of such diets fail. First round you are eating less. Second round you start be finding the recipes for the "whatever diet" brownies and those tend to be just as high calorie and so you don't lose. Nothing wrong with a brownie once in a while. Even if you are overweight - so long as most days you don't each such things and so are on a calorie deficit.
- NotGMan 2y agoBecause when your gut/body/metabolsim breaks this "balanced diet" approach doesn't work. People like that need to into all the way into eg no fiber, no carbs or they won't heal.
- scottyah 2y agoUsually they are suffering from something that did not go away with a doctor's visit so they take matters into their own hands. Diet is obviously one of the first things to try to change. You should see the food list I was permitted (FODMAP, though there's a lot of different versions of it) to try to see what was causing my gut issues. Almost all normal vegetables, carbs, and fats are on the Avoid list. Usually it's not just the diet, but it is an easy and even fun place to start.
- heresie-dabord 2y agoEating in moderation and making informed, healthy choices is common sense, I agree. It's just against the operating principles of a society with a massive industrial food economy. People are conditioned to eat on every occasion to the point that consuming food becomes the occasion.
- jncfhnb 2y agoThe problem is that it doesn’t satisfy food cravings that have been fostered by shitty food.
- srid 2y agoThat works if you have healthy gut flora, but not for others. Including yours truly: https://srid.ca/carnivore-diet https://srid.ca/carnivore-diet
- ofrzeta 2y agoIt's fine if it works for you but still on your page as well as your linked resources there are a lot of false claims. For instance on that page about the Comanche it is claimed they only ate meat (which is absolutely inplausible from the start) but Wikipedia says they "also gathered wild fruits, seeds, nuts, berries, roots and tubers, including plums, grapes, juniper berries, persimmons, mulberries, acorns, pecans, wild onions, radishes, and tuna, the fruit of the prickly pear cactus. The Comanche also acquired maize, dried pumpkin, and tobacco through trade and raids." Also, it seems, that meat is indeed not "nutritionally" complete and your source for that claim is some quack trying to sell his book? It's great if a meat-only diet works for you, but I don't think there's scientific evidence to support it.
- srid 2y agoThat page <https://justmeat.co/peoples/ https://justmeat.co/peoples/> actually says "have eaten meat-heavy, if not exclusive diets" and even follows up with "Not all are necessarily fully carnivorous". If this is all the supposed fault you can find, it does easily expose your "a lot of false claims" motte-and-bailey furphy for what it actually is. In regards to "I don't think there's scientific evidence to support it", 'tis just as well I didn't have you advicing me all those years ago, else this conversation wouldn't even be happening (and I be free of my chronic condition), eh? Finally, in regards to your "some quack" put-down, it actually behoves on you to provide evidence that an exclusively animal-based diet (especially with offal) is necessarily "deficient". It would seem that you lack sufficient understanding of nutrient bioavailability (generally high in animal foods), as well as the fact that RDA is not absolute (note for instance the reduced requirement speculations for Thiamin & Vitamin C in <https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/17/1/140 https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/17/1/140>)?
- ofrzeta 2y ago
- thisislife2 2y agoHealth conscious, figure conscious people all of us experiment with our food to see the impact it has on us emotionally and physically. In fact, look at what the subject of our discussion himself said, "Since taking on this brow-raising food plan, he claimed his weight dropped, his energy levels increased, and his "mental clarity" improved." But yes, as you pointed, there has been a real increase in "weird" diets in the past 3-4 decades. The internet is one factor. The other major reason for this, I believe, is the increased commercial competition in the food and agriculture industry. In the last 2-3 decades, we've all been bombarded with ads and PR campaigns about organic foods ("eat pure / natural / raw") and superfoods ("eat smart / right") or promotions of old-new crops ("eat what our elders ate") like Millets etc. etc. Then there's the PR campaigns from fast food and processed food industries and the PR campaigns from the instant cooking industry. However much we would all like to think that we are immune from advertising campaigns, the reality is that it does impact us. So we shouldn't be surprised that people are confused and there has been a rise in eating orders - https://www.yandex.com/search/?text=rise+in+eating+disorders https://www.yandex.com/search/?text=rise+in+eating+disorders
- ofrzeta 2y agoWell, that would be too easy. Also doesn't make for a catchy name, book sales, and so on.
- hilux 2y agoWell, you can look at the US and global situation with obesity and diabetes, and see that whatever people are doing is not working.
- femiagbabiaka 2y agoHe's got cheese.. body.
- bilbo0s 2y agoA bit off topic, but I thought this would be kind of a comedic fiction article a-la-Onion. I thought, "Oh here they go, unjustly skewering people from Florida again." Then I read the article. Sigh. I've tried to agitate against the "Florida Man..." and "Florida Woman..." stereotype, but it's just gotten to a point.. I guess I don't know what to say anymore?
- h0l0cube 2y agoBasically Poe’s law but not in the usual attribution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
- ge96 2y agoOhio as well and another one
- jeroenhd 2y agoNormally the whole "Florida man" thing happens because unlike many other states, Florida has a history of relatively public documentation of legal cases and police arrests. Journalists can just pick any cases that stand out and make funny looking articles because of whatever stunt the local teenagers, drunks, or drug addicts have been caught doing now. It's unfortunate that something like public access to law enforcement documents is being used to ridicule the state so much. This isn't one of those cases, though. This is someone speedrunning a heart attack.
- p_ing 2y agoThe Kraft Mac&Cheese powder sauce comes from his hands!
- _elf 2y agoThis gentleman is turning himself into wagyu.
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- m0llusk 2y agoIt's peculiar that so many think the carnivore diet is prime cuts of meat with butter and cheese. All of those are prime products with historically limited availability. Much of the diet would be tendons, tripe, organ meats and other such cooked together with vegetables for essential potassium. What we know of traditional carnivore diets is radically unlike what most nowadays think of which is based on a highly productive industrialized farming infrastructure that was not available for most of human history.
- Profan 2y agoEating reams of butter and cheese is a hell of a lot easier to sell than "hey you wanna go on this organ meat diet?" even if that's probably a lot more technically accurate
- siliconc0w 2y agoAnd what muscle meat you'd get would likely be pretty lean - not a lot of nice USDA prime ribeyes in nature.
- setgree 2y agoThat, and probably a great deal of what we'd consider rotten meat: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/meat-rotten-putrid-paleo-diet-fire-neanderthal https://www.sciencenews.org/article/meat-rotten-putrid-paleo... But I suppose that part of the paleo diet doesn't have mass appeal
- tivert 2y ago> That, and probably a great deal of what we'd consider rotten meat: Natural human stomach pH is low, like carrion-eating scavenger-low: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastric_acid#Comparison_between_humans_and_other_animals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastric_acid#Comparison_betwee....
- mvdtnz 2y agoDo a Google image search for Carnivore Diet. It's not at all "peculiar that so many think the carnivore diet is prime cuts of meat with butter and cheese" - this is exactly how it is marketed.
- hiyer 2y agoReminded me of this Junji Ito story - https://junjiitomanga.fandom.com/wiki/Glyceride https://junjiitomanga.fandom.com/wiki/Glyceride
- ricardobeat 2y agoIs this the “holes” guy? His writing surely has… evolved
- homebrewer 2y agoHere's the full manga, the plot summary doesn't do it justice. https://imgur.com/gallery/lni-glyceride-junji-ito-LaVdb https://imgur.com/gallery/lni-glyceride-junji-ito-LaVdb
- red-iron-pine 2y agogross
- mjamil 2y agoGoodhart’s Law in action. Targeting weight loss at the expense of overall health is a surefire way of guaranteeing early mortality.
- slt2021 2y agoreminds me of obsession of some politicians with GDP as a single metric to optimize the economy (while offshoring jobs and local population deals with stress via drugs/opiates/antidepressants)
- absolutelastone 2y agoA nonzero number of people will probably read this article and think "dangerous and gross.. but, exactly much weight loss are we talking about here?"
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- hammock 2y agoGoes to show you that your body is capable of extraordinary self-regulation. Maintaining your health should focus first and foremost on remedying the DYSREGULATION that is often caused by inflammation, infection, trauma etc And maybe even exercising its capabilities Of regulation, e.g. sauna/cold plunge cycles (just the first example I thought of)
- qrush 2y agoThese are called xanthelasmas for the curious - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthelasma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthelasma
- profsummergig 2y agoHoly sh*t. My mother had that. She was severely overweight. Mostly vegetarian, but had strange ideas about nutrition. E.g. she believed (from reading in the media) that seed oils were "Heart Healthy™ ".
- tiffanyh 2y agoI have a friend who went on the carnivore diet recently. They lost 36-pounds in just 6-weeks time (and ate as much as they wanted, so never hungry). But they did a blood test and it was panic time. The doctor told him he's on the brink of cardiac arrest and had to be put on medication and immediately introduce vegetables into their diet.
- WorkerBee28474 2y agoTo be fair, that uncommon situation is not in the dataset used to train doctors. We can theorize that he needs medication and vegetables, but we lack certainty.
- isk517 2y agoI feel like a lot of the results from the carnivore diet can easily be reproduced by just completely cutting out processed sugar from your diet.
- tiffanyh 2y agoAt the end of the day, it's all about calories. The appeal of the carnivore diet is, you can eat as much as you want - so long as it's only meat. The trick is, meat is actually fairly low in calories and protein (meat) is extremely filling. So you're achieving a calorie deficit without being hungry.
- anotherhue 2y agoEh, not quite. The microbiome is a quickly emerging and remarkably complex system. The calorie values on food are 'bomb-calorific', which is about as far from what goes in your gut as possible. 'Bio-availabilty' is the term to look up.
- ASalazarMX 2y ago> The trick is, meat is actually fairly low in calories and protein (meat) is extremely filling. What? Meat, from fish to chicken to beef, is one of the most caloric foods, rivaled only by nuts and oils. Meat usually is high in fat, it's very hard for it to be low-calorie. The weight loss doesn't come from a low-calorie diet, but from forced ketosis due to prolonged lack of glucose. As others hace said, it's the carb deprivation that makes you lose weight, you could easily do a vegetarian diet and lose the same or more weight without abusing fat and rising your bad cholesterol.
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- jsbisviewtiful 2y agoI'm relieved the only included pictures were of hands :P
- tetrisgm 2y agoHeart disease speed run any%
- instagib 2y ago“ High cholesterol is considered 240 mg/dL. The man's was over 1,000 mg/dL.”