Pros and cons of the ‘carnivore’ diet?

Breakfast: Bacon with eggs

Lunch: Ground beef cooked in tallow

Dinner: Venison steak with a side of bone marrow

It sounds like the diet of someone yearning for double-bypass surgery. In reality, it’s just one day of the Carnivore Diet, an extreme eating regimen that includes exclusively animal products. While your intuition might tell you that the Carnivore diet surely can’t be good for you (where are the veggies??), celebrities like Joe Rogan have touted it to millions of listeners.

On a strictly Carnivore Diet, the body will enter a state of ketosis, in which it opts for fueling with stored fats because there’s no glucose at-hand in the bloodstream–this may explain claims of dramatic weight-loss. But as we very well know, weight-loss is not always a useful metric for the healthiness of an eating routine.

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The Carnivore Diet is not just risky because it’s lacking important vitamins, nutrients, and fiber–it’s also possible to have too much of a good thing. Eating lots of meat can cause serious digestive issues, and eating lots of saturated fats, which are plentiful in the Carnivore diet, can elevate LDL cholesterol (the bad kind!) and increase risk of heart disease. The additional sodium that comes from a diet high in salty meats can cause high blood pressure and put extra pressure on your kidneys.

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