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.
Tell me how sold you are on the quality of this study.
Full Article: Harvard.edu
Here's is how the article starts off....
And here's a quote on how they gathered their data...
And somehow this data also produced these results....
Attached to this post is the actual study. Here it is...
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Red_meat_intake_and_risk_of_type_2_diabetes_in_cohort_study.pdf
A couple things that caught my attention in that study were the following quotes....
"Red meat intakes were assessed with semiquantitative food frequency questionnaires."
"Processed red meats included... sandwiches; ... Unprocessed red meats included... a sandwich or mixed dish"
Questionnaires every 2 to 4 years? Can you remember what you ate over the last 2-4 years? And then sandwiches have bread which actually does increase diabetes risk.
And finally, in the results....
"In both females and males, those with higher total red meat intake had higher BMI and total energy intake, were less physically active, were more likely to be current smokers, and were less likely to use multivitamins."
So they were overweight, overate, sedentary, and more, but it's the red meat that was the problem?
I'm sure there is more to discuss, but I am tired.
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