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.
LMNT is a famous brand of electrolytes that built their brand on a promise of “No Sugar” and “No Dodgy ingredients”
But recently it was exposed that LMNT actually includes maltodextrin, a high glycemic index sugar.
After one co-founder mistakenly said that the protein contains “No Maltodextrin,” is was later clarified that - despite not being listed among the ingredients - there was 4 mg of maltodextrin, which is so minuscule as to be likely physiologically irrelevant.
The reason this maltodextrin wasn’t included in the ingredients is that the small amount functioned as a “flavor carrier,” and was thus subsumed in the “Natural Flavors” item of the ingredient list.
https://staycuriousmetabolism.substack.com/p/lmnt-scandal-what-you-need-to-know
I know it's been a while since this happened but what are your thoughts? I just watched a video by Ken Berry and Nick Norwitz talking to one of the founders of LMNT. While I myself do not care about maltodextrin, I do care about the omission by the company of the controversial additive.