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Got it. Some of what I'm saying about the health risks of meat may not apply in a country with better food standards. I think it's moderately weird that for all the studies and effort that's been spent on this, this doesn't seem to be a chief area of investigation when people talk about the health impacts of eating meat.
None of these are the question. The question is, "Is it a good idea for a first-world society inhabitant to replace their diet with a largely-meat diet?"
Here's a pretty comprehensive attempt to address the issues you're talking about with epidemiological studies:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6971786/
No, not largely meat - Exclusively meat - yes. But that is just my opinion and we don't need to keep talking in circles about it. The problem with Largely is that sugar and carbs will creep in, and all the associated chronic non-communicable diseases they bring.
It's late, I have not read this metanalysis of epidemiology before, but let me just refer you to the counter factual analysis
https://www.dietdoctor.com/red-meat-and-colon-cancer-the-evidence-remains-weak
https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/red-meat
This articles are very well cited (hover over the numbers for the publications)
TLDR The evidence against red meat is extremely weak, and has tremendous healthy user bias, especially since most people in epidemiology surveys have a carbohydrate metabolism. For a true comparison against carnivore eaters we would need to see a ketogenic metabolism.
I mean that's pretty easy to study. Take a big random sample of people, randomly assign half of them to try that diet, and see what happens.
All I really know is my sample size of 1 person I know who tried that, and she got all fucked up because not eating carbs will do that to a person. But that's not really all that scientific.
I read some of the cites and I'm not convinced. It seems mostly like an exercise in misleading citation, taking studies which indicate a lack of indication of one particular factor of X, and claiming that they find definitively that X does not occur, which isn't the same thing.
And what will it do to a person?
We can both be reasonable people see the same data and come to different conclusions, that is ok.
In her case, it made her physically weak, she had trouble thinking, and she became irritable and unreasonable. Basically physically, mentally, and emotionally it made her worse.
I mean it does make sense to me. Your body needs energy to function and getting it from complex carbohydrates is a standard way and it's going to struggle if it doesn't have that available. As I understand it, the no-carb diets are sort of well known to produce that kind of impact, although I can definitely believe that there could be people who are having a bad reaction to some particular substance that they're eating so that cutting out all carbs entirely will give them a good result because they're also not being exposed to that substance, I don't think that kind of thing is in general a good thing for the average healthy person to do.
Interesting weakness and brain fog.
There is no physiological need for carbohydrates. https://hackertalks.com/post/8957737 - Confronting myths: relative and absolute requirements of dietary carbohydrates and glucose as metabolic fuels. - 2024
I wonder what your friends total nutritional intake looked like. The literature, and my personal experience, show that ketogenic metabolism is sustainable without issue for both metabolically unwell people as well as athletes.
During the fat adaptation phase there is something called "keto flu" where people who don't adjust electrolytes can have low energy and headaches (insulin goes down, kidneys don't retain as many electrolytes) for a few weeks.
Here is a great textbook on the subject: - Ketogenic : The Science of Therapeutic Carbohydrate Restriction in Human Health it's on the normal pirate sites.
Anyway, going back to the start of this thread - I hope you see that the carnivore community doesn't exist to troll anybody and we are earnest with our intentions.
Your sources are all dogshit
That is just a ad hominem attack.
It's definitionally only an ad hominem if my argument consists of personal insults/attacks. The comment you're responding to is insulting the quality of your sources, not you, and the quality of your sources is verifiably dogshit. Swing and a miss lol
Please follow Lemmy.ml's rule #2 - Be respectful. https://lemmy.ml/post/1140303
At this point you are harassing me. Please disengage.
I'm accurately pointing out that you're a deliberate liar engaged in a campaign to disseminate dangerous medical misinformation, the fact that the official rules fail to prohibit such behavior means nothing to me, you deserve worse
Your opinion is scientifically unsubstantiated nonsense, the only thing you're even remotely right about is that we don't need to talk in circles about it, you can safely be disregarded as either a moron or a paid shill
Thank you for your opinion about my opinion. You have not changed my mind, but that is ok, I don't expect you to.
But why are you even here? If your not going to try to educate me, are you here for performative signaling? Nobody is watching this post anymore.
I'm here to make sure any literate person who even perfunctorily skims these comments will know that you're peddling dangerous bullshit. You're welcome for nothing, you deserve worse.