The Case against the Carnivore Diet
Pasquale Torrez editó esta página hace 1 mes


It’s not true that humans can get all of their nutrients from eating meat (or at least the kind that most people think of) (e.g. Vitamin C, flavonoids, dietary fiber, et cetera). 99% meat, but it should not be mistaken as being the same as the carnivore diet. The Innuit are able to get all the nutrients they need because they eat all the organs of the animals that they capture, not just the muscles. Since many animal organs aren’t present in most grocery stores and supermarkets, it’s not possible for most people to only eat meat and get all the nutrients they need. The Inuits also have a mutation that prevents them from going into ketosis, so they won’t die when they are unable to find food. Most humans don’t have that gene. From what I’ve seen, the proponents of the carnivore diet don’t focus too much on how eating meat can enable us to get all the nutrition that we need.


Yes, they may point out specific nutrients that are abundant in meat and the benefits of those nutrients (e.g. Zinc, DHA, Vitamin B12, Iron, Vitamin B6, etc), but any proponent for any fad diet could do that too (e.g. the corporatocracy-backed 3-cup-of-dairy-a-day advertising gimmick that repeated "dairy products contain calcium" to get people to buy more dairy products). What’s really important is how we ensure that we can get all the nutrients that we need, not just point to a select handful, at the expense of ignoring others. Furthermore, a healthy diet should be able to identify which foods one would need to eat specifically to acquire each of the nutrients necessary for being healthy. Eating red meat likely correlates with a greater risk of colon cancer and gout, but further research will be needed to confirm this. The healthiest meats / animal products to consume are poultry, fish, seafood, and eggs. Excluding entire food groups (i.e. fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains, fiber, etc) is also socially restrictive, and likely to prevent humans from gaining all the nutrition that they need.


It’s ridiculous that carnivore proponents claim that the vegan diet is "socially restrictive" when there are carnivore influencers like Meatrition who promote avoiding all the aforementioned foods. Carnivore proponents also tend to be against seed oils, but this opposition is irrational. Are Seed Oils Causing the Diseases of Civilization? Episode 1 - Viva Longevity. Are Seed Oils Causing the Diseases of Civilization? Episode 2: Your Questions Answered - Viva Longevity. Furthermore, I don’t believe that most of the carnivore influencers truly adhere to their claimed diet everyday. Shawn Baker’s followers once spotted some apples and bananas in his kitchen once. It’s highly unlikely that any true carnivore could sustain the diet for long without experiencing eventual health problems. The evidence in demonstrating any health benefits for the carnivore diet is lacking. By comparison, the Mediterranean Diet has been used for thousands of years, and has consistently correlated which good health and low rates of disease throughout all that time.


You have to stay on the carnivore diet for months before your body and microbiome adapt. It’s more likely that the carnivores insist that people just have to wait to transition before it starts working because it doesn’t actually work. Every time it doesn’t work, they can just gaslight people by saying that they just haven’t stayed on the diet long enough for the effects to start kicking in. A growing number of people with "untreatable" diseases resolved them with the carnivore diet. Those are purely anecdotal claims, and many of them are exaggerations. Those same people almost certainly could’ve fixed their problems just as well (and probably better) by following a Mediterranean-like diet instead. The keto diet can prevent epilepsy in some children, but it doesn’t follow that everybody should go Supraketo Keto Pills. There’s also a growing number of people who are getting diseases from the carnivore diet. Excluding carbs from one’s diet typically requires increasing intake of protein and fat (saturated or unsaturated) in order for someone to get enough calories each day.


Since carnivores typically consume more saturated fat and excess sodium, both of these factors increase the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Humans who lived a meat-heavy hunter gatherer lifestyle had more exercise than humans who lived an agricultural lifestyle. This would’ve compensated for the negative effects of eating the high amount of saturated fat in meat by countering harmful LDL chloresterol levels. Low-carb diets are also associated with shorter lifespans, especially if they’re done for long terms and Supraketo Keto Pills the dieter is already at a healthy weight. The carnivores have absolutely no evidence that increasing one’s intake of saturated fat will lead to health benefits. Many of the influencers know this, but they pretend that saturated fat won’t clog people’s arteries anyway. Consider how Amber O’Hearn (a carnivore influencer) repeatedly evaded questions about saturated Supraketo Fat Burner instead of answering them. Eating a low-carb diet can help people lose weight. Carbs are a basic nutrient your body turns into glucose, or blood sugar, to make energy for your body to work.