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My wife bought an electric smoker a couple of years ago and every once in a while she smokes some pork. I have never used the device myself. Sounds like learning to smoke some meats and cheeses could be fun 🙂

This is an interesting video.

Vegan diets putting mums-to-be and babies ‘at risk’ Nine in ten women trying for a baby lack key nutrients, a global study suggests by Kat Lay Eating meat and dairy during pregnancy could reduce vitamin deficiencies found in 90 per cent of expectant mothers - GETTY The trend towards vegan diets is putting the health of pregnant women and babies at risk, a global study suggests. Researchers found 90 per cent of expectant mothers in high-income countries, including the UK, were lacking key vitamins needed for healthy pregnancies. They included vitamins B12, B6 and D, as well as folic acid and riboflavin which are key to the development of unborn babies in the womb. All are found “in abundance” in meat and dairy products, the scientists said. Keith Godfrey, the lead author and professor of epidemiology from the University of Southampton, said: “The push to reduce our dependence on meat and dairy to achieve net-zero carbon emissions is likely to further deplete expecting mothers of vital nutrients, which could have lasting effects on unborn children. “Our study shows that almost every woman trying to conceive had insufficient levels of one or more vitamins and this figure is only going to get worse as the world moves towards plant-based diets. People think that nutrient deficiency only affects people in underdeveloped countries — but it is also affecting the majority of women living in high-income nations.” Shiao-Yng Chan, co-author and associate professor at the National University of Singapore, said: “If we continue to move towards diets with less meat and dairy products, reducing intakes of micronutrients essential for a child’s development, vitamin deficiencies will continue to grow unless women start taking more supplements or are supported with specific advice about nutrient-rich foods.” The study is published in PLOS Medicine and involved 1,729 women aged 18 to 38 when they conceived. When recruited to the study, over 90 per cent had “low or marginal” levels of at least one of the vitamins. Concentrations of riboflavin, B6 and B12 declined in women who were not given multivitamin supplements during pregnancy. The researchers said using over-the-counter multivitamins could substantially reduce the deficiencies they found. Ian Givens, professor of food chain nutrition at the University of Reading, said: “This study is very timely and should provide the impetus to reassess dietary provision of key nutrients before and during pregnancy. “In UK omnivores, dairy foods, meat and fish provide about 80 per cent of dietary vitamin B12 and meat, eggs and fish provide about 65 per cent of dietary vitamin D although dietary supply only provides about 3 micrograms per day, meaning that supplementary vitamin D is necessary. “As the authors suggest, the current trend towards diets with animal-derived foods being at least partially replaced by plant-based foods will further increase the risk of sub-optimal status of vitamin B12 and D and other nutrients in women of childbearing age. This needs to be considered when such dietary transition is contemplated.” Dr Duane Mellor, a registered dietitian and senior lecturer at Aston Medical School, expressed concerns about the study’s conclusions. He said: “This paper does not actually report any health changes experienced during pregnancy or how healthy the babies were when they were born. “It is also interesting that a number of the researchers were co-inventors with Nestlé for the supplement used in the study, which contained not only B vitamins, vitamin D, zinc and iodine it also contained myo-inositol and probiotic bacteria. It might be seen as a potential conflict of interest that the researchers are co-inventors of the supplement with a large multinational food company.” The competing interests declaration on the paper said the authors had “no financial interest” in the patents filed by Nestlé for the supplement.

I love ice water. I have an Opal Ice Maker that makes the little pellet ice, or "Sonic" ice, as they call it named after the burger joint. I did hear that about drinking room temperature water though on a video from Steak & Butter Girl after she returned from Chine. Her mother wouldn't let her, lol. Apparently nobody in China uses ice.

Feeling better each day. This was breakfast. A half pound of beef, seasoned and salted, with 3 eggs and some cheddar cheese 🙂

I don't drink coffee, but this little stirring device looks like a magic wand of sorts, lol....

I'm a big fan of pork and beef sausages, especially breakfast sausages. But certain brands and certain sausages made from other meats can be a coin toss. You said in another topic you were going to start with carnivore-ish/ketovore so your breakfast here is spot on! 👍 I've only ate once a day over the last several days myself. A little intermittent fasting can be good for you too 🙂

I actually can eat butter but my family thinks I am gross, lol. Look up "Brown Butter Bites". It's basically you brown butter in a pan and then pour it into molds and it's a high fat snack. If you are carnivore, you just make it clean. If you are keto you can flavor and sweeten them up. In the summer I grill my steak and throw a pad of butter on top to make up for the fat I lose through the grill. In the winter I make my steak in a pan with butter and collect the run-off into a dish to use as dipping sauce. I also add butter to burger and other meats I may be cooking. My calories from fat/protein/carbs end up being 70%/29%/1%

Great to hear these results, @Steven2023 and @Orweller 🙂 I dropped dramatically at first. A lot of that is water and glycogen stores that were lost from no eating carbo-hydrate-s. Afterwards the weight loss slows down and occasioanlly stalls (while you are healing) but then it picks up again. Just keep at it. Slow and steady wins the race 😉

This was yesterday's breakfast. A 4-egg omelet stuffed with Jimmy Dean pork sausage and cheddar cheese inside, and then sprinkled with parmesan cheese on the outside. It was delicious and ended up being my only real meal yesterday (around 2pm). I snacked on pork rinds later on.

Pickles are pretty harmless. I've actually heard good things about fermented and pickled foods. Once a month we go out to support my cousin's Open Mic Night. I will order a carnivore meal (burger patties with pepper jack cheese) and the the girls will get wraps. The wraps come with a pickle spear on the side which they will offer to me. Pickles are kinda like lettuce - you're basically eating water.

Yes, I don't drink milk either and this is part of the reason (the other part being I just never really have made a habit of drinking it). You could still pull off milk on a meat-based keto diet if you watch your total carbs. It's no different than the fruit situation. Then if you are just on an animal-based "carnivore" diet you might drink all kinds of milk and just not care.

This is probably due to an excess of B vitamins, such as riboflavin (B-2) and cobalamin (B-12), which will cause your urine to yellow. But anything on the yellow scale is considered normal. If you do any intermittent or extended fasting, you will probably notice less yellow during your long periods of not eating, whereas you will notice more yellow in the hours after a big fat carnivore meal. It doesn't sound like you could be dehydrated at all.

I've never given much thought to shampoo. I've been balding for years and maintain a cleanshaven head now. Even when I had hair and did shampoo, it's only in your hair for maybe a minute and then you rinse it all off. However, a lot of people like soaps and shampoos from Dr. Squatch because they are made with all natural ingredients.... https://www.drsquatch.com/ I soap all over, but unless you have dirt or some funk on you then you only really need to address the pits & bits, cracks & crevices, lol Around here Tom's Toothpaste is pretty popular, especially the fluoride-free versions... https://www.tomsofmaine.com/ Even with toothpaste, I personally am not too concerned because I am not going to swallow it anyway. But some people are concerned about killing beneficial bacteria in the mouth. I've never gone down that rabbit hole and don't plan to, lol. You might want to check Amazon or other vendors that serve your country to see if you can get these or something similar over there.

Sure. @Geezy was correct when he said to start with berries. "Berries are best" on a low carb diet. Raspberries – Half a cup (60 grams) contains 3 grams of carbs. Blackberries – Half a cup (70 grams) contains 4 grams of carbs. Strawberries – Eight medium-sized (100 grams) contains 6 grams of carbs. Plum – One medium-sized (65 grams) contains 7 grams of carbs. Clementine – One medium-sized (75 grams) contains 8 grams of carbs. Kiwi – One medium-sized (70 grams) contains 8 grams of carbs. Cherries – Half a cup (75 grams or about 12 cherries) contains 8 grams of carbs. Blueberries – Half a cup (75 grams) contains 9 grams of carbs. Cantaloupe (melon) – One cup (160 grams) contains 11 grams of carbs. Peach – One medium-sized (150 grams) contains 13 grams of carbs. Things like apples, oranges, and bananas are over 20g and very "sugary". If you are going to be liberally low carb (less than 100g a day) then keep your fruit servings to probably 3 or less. If you still want to be ketogenic, then you are probably looking at only 1 or 2 servings a day. And personally, I would have them in the morning, so you have all day to burn it off, lol. And @Orweller was right on the money here. Avocado is great. It's technically a fruit although most people think of it as a vegetable. It only has 2g carbs per 100g sized avocado and is chock full of healthy fats. If you choose to move from standard carnivore over to a meat-based keto or an animal-based diet do let us know how it goes for you. Us pure meat-eaters will still love you, lol 😄

Not likely. We're a young community (3 months old) and English based. Are you interested in improving your health with a keto-carnivore diet or just dropping a link to Mother's Community?

Ironically, my wife got out the waffle maker yesterday morning. It's usually buried, so I figured I would try to make a chaffle for the first time. I used 2 eggs and 1 cup of shredded cheddar cheese to make the "batter" and it turned out great (I used a little seasoning in it since I was obviously not going to use any syrup, lol).... It was a little tricky to lift out of the maker. I had to use tongs and a flipper which is why the one end got crushed a bit. This is a larger waffle iron too. But I can see how this would make great bun substitutes for sandwhiches. I haven't had a sandwhich in 9 months, lol.

This study is very comforting considering my cholesterol is through the roof at the moment, as high as the highest person in that study. Although, for me it's because I have been in a phase of rapid weight loss, and cholesterol is stored in adipose tissue. I fully anticipate my cholesterol to come back down as my weight stabilizes.

Looks delicous! I got hit with Covid yesterday. I did have eggs and sausage in the morning (a routine thing for me), and then later in the day I Door-Dash'ed a Wendy's Baconator with no bun, because I was too dizzy to stand up and do any cooking. Today I am feeling better than yesterday

If you were not metabolically healthy or had diabetes then you would want to focus on low-glycemic fruits. But since you are 24 years old, my height (5'8") and 135 pounds (62.5kg) I have a feeling you are pretty healthy. If you are trying to reverse any chronic illness, then you would want to do standard carnivore or lion diet for a while and then slowly reintroduce one fruit at a time. Odds are, the fruit will do you no harm. Dr. Paul Saladino who used to advocate a carnivore diet now advocates an animal-based diet with fruit, honey, and raw milk. He is metabolically healthy though. Many of the other carnivore doctors think he's gone off the deep end since he now advocates 300g of carbs per day. I personally disagree with those numbers, especially if you are not metabolically healthy. Even if you are, I think that number should be 100g or less. I very much believe that we are designed to be a low carbohydrate meat-based mammal. This statement by Geoff is worthy of some deep meditation, imo. I believe man has ate fruit from the beginning, but most fruit is only available during the harvest season. It would ripen around August, people would eat it and it would fatten them up for the winter ahead. Once it was gone, it was gone, and you wouldn't have had fruit again till the next year. But today, due to technology and trade, it's "harvest season" 365 days a year down at the supermarket. And this is true too. I have a few apple trees in my backyard, and I pick and eat from them in August. But these apples are little bite size snacks compared to the big luscious apples you see at the market. Plants produce toxins and self-defense chemicals to discourage being eaten. They want to live. These chemicals are found in their leaves, stems, and roots, and especialy their seed are well-protected. However, they WANT their fruit to be eaten, because this is how they propagate. So there will be much lower amounts, if any, of these self-defense chemicals in the fruits. It these self-defense chemicals that could be causing your inflammation, chronic, or auto-immune conditions.

Butter is an animal product, so enjoy all the butter you want 🙂 This depends on your goals. Dairy is an animal product, so yes you could enjoy it. However, if losing weight or being in a ketogenic state most of the time is your goal, then you will want to watch your carb count. You can generally stay in ketosis most of the day if you keep your carb count lower than 20g. Milk has 8g of carbs per cup, which comes from lactose, which is a milk-sugar. Check out this article on The Various Types of Carnivore Diets. Technically you would be switching from a Standard Carnivore Diet to an Any Animal-products Carnivore Diet. It might be possible. It all depends on your and your personal physiology and your personal health goals. Technically, you would be switching to an Animal-based "Carnivore" Diet or a Carnivorish/Ketovore Diet. If you are trying to lose weight and live a healthy life, all of these might work for you. If you are trying to heal certain maladies, then the stricter you are to true carnivore, the better. Many people choose Standard Carnivore or Lion Diet as an elimination diet for 60, 90, or 180 days and then they will test adding back certain foods to see how their body reacts. This is a powerful tool for you personally to figure out what you were eating that was causing your issues or chronic conditions. Generally, if you are metabolically healthy, you can tolerate some selective fruit and vegetables. If you are not metabolically healthy, then you should continue to abstain from them.

Sure. Here is a quote from https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminC-HealthProfessional/ that shows that a mere 10mg per day of Vitamin C is all that is needed to prevent scurvy. The following quote is from this study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0309174006002701?via%3Dihub shows that meat, including muscle meat, has vitamin C... Here is a study that has a chart about 2/3's of the way down the page showing how many mg of vitamin C there is per 100mb (3 oz) of various meats... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8266228/ You will note that even muscle meat has about 2mg per 3oz serving. So if you eat 1.25 lbs of muscle meat, you have got all the vitamin C you need. And most of us are eating 2 or more pounds per day. Hope this helps, Jen!

I'd say so. My store bought jar lasted me at least a month, I think. I still cook a lot in butter though as well.