I still don't understand where this carnivore diet came from? I don't think humans only ever ate just meat unless there is some history that I never learned about it.
I still don't understand where this carnivore diet came from? I don't think humans only ever ate just meat unless there is some history that I never learned about it.
It's either an offshoot of Atkins/Keto (which are beneficial if you have loss of pancreatic function from eating horrible American food for your entire life, or if you have other issues like celiac or gluten intolerance), or it's sheer baby-brained pseudoscience. I'm leaning towards baby-brained pseudoscience with toxic machismo characteristics.
The only viable reason I could come up with for the carnivore "diet" is if you're already doing Atkins/Keto and you need to break a stall in your weight loss, and even then, it should only be very temporary. By not eating some kind of goddamned vegetables, you're going to wind up vitamin deficient pretty quickly, to say nothing of the lack of fiber.
Source: am fat guy. Used to be much fatter guy. Trying to avoid becoming a type-2 diabetic guy.
I always read it as a "Own the Libs" rebuttal of veganism. The equivalent of rolling coal when you see a Prius or making people sign loyalty oaths to Israel to counter the BDS Movement.
That, plus the conflation of Cave Man tropes with Masculinity and the chronic desire to telegraph that you have a penis to everyone else you know online.
Its absolutely this, theres no way theres any science, even the pseudo variety, behind it.
Yeah, more than likely. That diet does have limited usefulness as a weight loss tool, but it's so stupid because there are way better options that don't involve bloody diarrhea. Also, fun fact about extreme low-carb diets: being in a state of ketosis makes alcohol and certain drugs hit you like a fucking truck. So :jordan-eboy-peterson: doing Carnivore while hooked on benzos is especially hilarious.