Surprised this is down at the bottom. I eat meat, eggs, cheese, butter pretty exclusively. I do sprinkle in delectable food now and then, but for the most part I'm carnivore.
Feel great on it and have long lasting energy most days.
Low carb is the way to go man. We aren't meant to eat processed crap everyday, just like we weren't meant to have pornography at the tips of our fingers at all times. It makes us weird. It turns us into caricatures of human beings.
uhhh. the free radicals and metabolic disregulation which requires antioxidants to prevent is caused by compounds in vegetables and grains. If you don't eat them you don't need the antioxidants.
It is how eskimos on their native diet can subsist in good healthy exclusively eating meat and fat.
The eskimos can do it almost certainly because of genetic selection. If we were to try eating exactly what they eat, it would most likely make us sick. It's probably the same genetic changes responsible for their short stature due to a combination fo diet and reduced surface area for cold weather survival.
There is some limited evidence that you should probably eat according to your genome (i.e. what your ancestors ate).
Yep. As I mentioned up-thread, there's some (admittedly limited) evidence you should eat according to your genetic composition. If your ancestors ate vegetables and some fruits, you probably should too. Likewise if they had a diet with legumes and nuts. Here's the post with some citations, if curious.
It does annoy me that there are people so caught up in this idea that "eating plants is gay" that they're actively ignoring the reality that early humans were omnivorous, highly opportunistic feeders. The explosion of highly available carbohydrates via cooking increased the energy budget available for our brains allowing them to grow.
If we were intended to be strictly carnivorous, we would have the teeth of a carnivore--not an omnivorous ape.
All of that fights the estrogens that are put in all foods, whether that's soybean oil, tofu, fluoride, hand sanitizer and thousands of other products. Fish, meat and cholesterol are also helpful, but you aren't helping yourself by doing a fad diet of meat-only.
Diet that our ancestors had to survive through ice age evolutionary bottlenecks when almost all of the northern hemisphere was covered in thick ice..."fad"
Hint - they weren't eating fruit and digging down through ice to find fresh vegies.
Dude you live in a warm environment year round with A/C you certainly don’t need to ingest hundreds of grams of calories in the form of fat (9kcal/g) just to maintain body temp. If you’re an arctic explorer yeah then take down pure butter that’s what they need to do to maintain TDEE. Chances are you’re only exploring Walmart and swiftly whip out credit cards not spears.
But hey I’m a 6’4 Ripped athlete that smashes 400+ grams of carbs all day from jasmine rice, oats, bananas, berries, freshly squeezed juices so I understand that what I’m talking about might sound foreign to sedentary fatties.
Also unlike most if not all of y’all I actually help patients with their bloodwork and I’ve seen enough get trashed from carnivore / ultra low carb stints. Obviously you don’t know about them because Reddit carnivore/ZC is a massively moderated shithole and there’s this insane anti Low fat propaganda going on rn as if low fat destroyed the west. Plot twist the West never went low fat they just kept eating more calories while replacing saturated fat with vegetable oils.
Pretty stupid to make a lot of personal assumptions about someone that you know nothing about.
Actually I think the data shows fat consumption did drop; but that aside I agree the real issue is the replacement of saturated animal fats with vegetable oils.
haha, you think every tribe had the same diet? Or are you an Eskimo? Perhaps a Sami? Basing your diet on what people ate during an natural disaster is a little ridiculous, I mean should we only eat dirt because there was a major drought causing a famine at some point in our ancestor's history too?
Ice ages lasting hundreds and thousands of years isn't a natural disaster. They are events with significant selective pressure over a significant amount of the planet.
Stop eating fruits, vegetables, seeds, grains and sugar. Eat meat and drink water.
Surprised this is down at the bottom. I eat meat, eggs, cheese, butter pretty exclusively. I do sprinkle in delectable food now and then, but for the most part I'm carnivore.
Feel great on it and have long lasting energy most days.
Low carb is the way to go man. We aren't meant to eat processed crap everyday, just like we weren't meant to have pornography at the tips of our fingers at all times. It makes us weird. It turns us into caricatures of human beings.
Exactly right. When you grow up in a household that doesn't show you the right way, it can be very difficult to navigate in the world.
No vegetables or seeds = cancer
yeah for real, you need antioxidants to prevent cancer. Only plants have antioxidants
uhhh. the free radicals and metabolic disregulation which requires antioxidants to prevent is caused by compounds in vegetables and grains. If you don't eat them you don't need the antioxidants.
It is how eskimos on their native diet can subsist in good healthy exclusively eating meat and fat.
The eskimos can do it almost certainly because of genetic selection. If we were to try eating exactly what they eat, it would most likely make us sick. It's probably the same genetic changes responsible for their short stature due to a combination fo diet and reduced surface area for cold weather survival.
There is some limited evidence that you should probably eat according to your genome (i.e. what your ancestors ate).
Omg this is terrible advice, don't stop eating vegetables and fruit. Major face palm
Yep. As I mentioned up-thread, there's some (admittedly limited) evidence you should eat according to your genetic composition. If your ancestors ate vegetables and some fruits, you probably should too. Likewise if they had a diet with legumes and nuts. Here's the post with some citations, if curious.
It does annoy me that there are people so caught up in this idea that "eating plants is gay" that they're actively ignoring the reality that early humans were omnivorous, highly opportunistic feeders. The explosion of highly available carbohydrates via cooking increased the energy budget available for our brains allowing them to grow.
If we were intended to be strictly carnivorous, we would have the teeth of a carnivore--not an omnivorous ape.
Sunflower seeds, raisins, dark chocolate, cabbage, onions, garlic, olive oil, asparagus
All of that fights the estrogens that are put in all foods, whether that's soybean oil, tofu, fluoride, hand sanitizer and thousands of other products. Fish, meat and cholesterol are also helpful, but you aren't helping yourself by doing a fad diet of meat-only.
Diet that our ancestors had to survive through ice age evolutionary bottlenecks when almost all of the northern hemisphere was covered in thick ice..."fad"
Hint - they weren't eating fruit and digging down through ice to find fresh vegies.
Dude you live in a warm environment year round with A/C you certainly don’t need to ingest hundreds of grams of calories in the form of fat (9kcal/g) just to maintain body temp. If you’re an arctic explorer yeah then take down pure butter that’s what they need to do to maintain TDEE. Chances are you’re only exploring Walmart and swiftly whip out credit cards not spears.
But hey I’m a 6’4 Ripped athlete that smashes 400+ grams of carbs all day from jasmine rice, oats, bananas, berries, freshly squeezed juices so I understand that what I’m talking about might sound foreign to sedentary fatties.
Also unlike most if not all of y’all I actually help patients with their bloodwork and I’ve seen enough get trashed from carnivore / ultra low carb stints. Obviously you don’t know about them because Reddit carnivore/ZC is a massively moderated shithole and there’s this insane anti Low fat propaganda going on rn as if low fat destroyed the west. Plot twist the West never went low fat they just kept eating more calories while replacing saturated fat with vegetable oils.
Pretty stupid to make a lot of personal assumptions about someone that you know nothing about.
Actually I think the data shows fat consumption did drop; but that aside I agree the real issue is the replacement of saturated animal fats with vegetable oils.
haha, you think every tribe had the same diet? Or are you an Eskimo? Perhaps a Sami? Basing your diet on what people ate during an natural disaster is a little ridiculous, I mean should we only eat dirt because there was a major drought causing a famine at some point in our ancestor's history too?
Ice ages lasting hundreds and thousands of years isn't a natural disaster. They are events with significant selective pressure over a significant amount of the planet.
Caveman diet! Yum!