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.
A new UCL study in BMJ Medicine checked 1,636 ultra-processed and 262 processed products sold in the UK against the country's own food rules. The green, amber and red traffic light labels on the front of the package flagged only about 48% of the ultra-processed items as unhealthy. The model behind the UK's junk food ad rules caught about 58%. When the researchers scored the same products against the government's own dietary guide, 91% to 98% of the ultra-processed products came out unhealthy.
Some of the products that slipped past the labels: canned pasta in tomato sauce, boxed mac and cheese, and fat-free probiotic yogurt.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-11-guidance-foods-unhealthy.html
My take: a label that misses half the junk isn't worth much. A ribeye doesn't need a traffic light on it. The researchers still grade food by fat, sugar and salt, so I don't buy their whole yardstick, but they're right that packaged food gets a misleading advantage when the labels go easy on it.
Do you read the front-of-package labels at all, go straight to the ingredient list, or just skip anything that needs a label?
- CarnivoreTalk's house pitmaster