New Community, I’ve created some seed posts!
Carnivore - The ultimate elimination diet
Purpose
- lifestyle
- food
- Science
- problems
- Recipes
- Sustainability
- Regenerative lifestyle
Rules
- Be nice
- Stay on topic
- Don’t farm rage
- Be respectful of other diets, choices, lifestyles!!!
What is deficient?
Everything is in a context, I’m just going to discuss one in your first link (which isn’t research, just a blog) - Scurvy. The intuit eating their traditional diet did not get scurvy, famously… funnily enough - meat has vitamin C in it (among other things) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22063662/
Oh, I now realize the first site also lists Vitamin A as a carnivore deficiency, but also says Liver is the best source of Vitamin A… That is … some gymnastics there. Let me say, you can’t eat healthily by just eating muscle. You have to eat the whole animal - tip to tail. Liver too! Liver is the best thing you ever eat. The fat is necessary, the organs are necessary. That is why ground meat is probably the best food you can get at a grocery store (just behind liver)
The second paper - Food questionnaire applied to a high carbohydrate population (healthy user bias/observational study)
Third paper - They even use ‘MAY’ in the title, which also means MAY NOT.
The fourth - is a article by a lay person.
This is the poor quality science issue I was referring to in the previous post.
If your going to have a blanket statement like this isn’t sustainable - you have to address real counter examples - the intuit lived without plants, and without cancer on a all carnivore diet.
There are other nutrients than vitamin c and a, but If you’re eating a high seafood diet and lots of liver, great.
Low carb isn’t going to magically protect you from cancer and heart disease. Studies don’t have to be specifically on low carb diets to be valid. Also ‘may be a significant risk factor’ is normal scientific wording for finding a statistical correlation.
More importantly though, even the best farming practices, there is no sustainable or environmentally friendly way to produce meat. Again, I’m not sure what the Inuit have to do with that, given how different our modern meat industry is. But growing food, feeding it to animals (who produce greenhouse gasses), and eating those animals is an extremely inefficient and destructive way to get food. Not to mention the horrific treatment, enslavement, and killing of those animals.