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 12-week randomized trial out of the University of Toronto had adults with overweight or obesity add three servings of full-fat dairy a day (whole milk, Greek yogurt and cheese sticks). A third group cut calories and kept dairy to one low-fat or plant-based serving. Body fat, lean mass, waist size, blood sugar and cholesterol didn't change measurably in any group. The group that ate the dairy freely with no calorie advice didn't eat much more than the group told to budget for it. The researchers credit the fat and protein for keeping people full.
A grain of salt: it was small and short (COVID cut it down), everybody was also following Canada's Food Guide (whole grains and all), and Dairy Farmers of Canada helped fund it. It's no carnivore study. Still, it's one more that doesn't fit the "full-fat dairy makes you fat" line.
Where does dairy land for you? Butter and cheese every day, or did you cut it back to break a stall?
Summary: https://sciencefeatured.com/2026/11/12/daily-full-fat-dairy-left-body-fat-and-cholesterol-unchanged-in-canadian-trial/
Study: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjnut.2026.101373
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