Today is the first day of January and is also the first day of World Carnivore Month. To that end, let's challenge ourselves to eat a carnivore diet for the entire month of January. The type of carnivore diet and the level of strictness you choose to do is entirely up to you. Examples of carnivore diets include the following...
1) The Lion Diet. A person eating the Lion Diet only consumes the flesh of ruminant animals, water, and salt.
2) The BBBE Diet. BBBE is an acronym for Beef, Butter, Bacon, and Eggs.
3) The Carnivore Diet. This allows for the consumption of any and all animals and animal by-products, including dairy.
In any of the above examples, the object of course is to not consume any plants as part of your diet. Of course, we're not going to micromanage hoe you prepare your food, so your use of seasonings is entirely your own personal choice.
IF your circumstances don't allow you to go full on carnivore in January, then you can participate in this topic by challenge yourself to do better, above and beyond what you have been doing. For example, if you have still been eating grains, seed oils, refined sugar, or drinking alcohol, challenge yourself to avoid these items and just eat a clean, single ingredient whole foods diet such as clean keto, ketovore, or animal based.
We encourage you to check in daily, and share what you have eaten, perhaps a weigh-in if you're willing, and enjoy in some small talk. Participants in this topic will be entered into a drawing for a prize at the end of the month.
Researchers at UCL and Imperial looked at about 6,000 adults, followed for up to 20 years. They identified different blood patterns associated with ultra-processed and minimally processed diets.
The ultra-processed pattern included lower omega-3s and HDL, and higher VLDL triglycerides. People in the highest third for ultra-processed food intake had a 17% higher risk of cardiovascular disease than those in the lowest third.
Those eating the most minimally processed food had 19% lower cardiovascular disease risk and 40% lower type 2 diabetes risk than those eating the least.
This was observational, so it doesn't prove processing caused those outcomes. It also wasn't a carnivore study. But the differences showed up in blood measurements, not just a food questionnaire.
Anybody here see their triglycerides, HDL or A1c change after cutting out packaged food? What changed first?
Source: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/nov/biological-signature-ultra-processed-diet-identified
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