i have this conversation all the time… the food is delicious, nutritionally complete… OMAD, same food every day.
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This is NOT a balanced diet
By which you mean it’s not healthy? What deficiency disease do you expect people following the carnivore zero fibre diet to get?
It must be balanced; it gives all necessary nutrients and sufficient energy
I think your speaking in code. I don’t think “balanced diet” means anything specific
No fiber? I would say
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Colon cancer
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Constipation
And you’d be wrong on both counts.
Science says more fibre causes more constipation and no fibre causes no constipation. My experience agrees. Shitting is easy on this diet.
Food frequency questionnaire based epidemiology said processed meat caused cancer, but that study counted pizza as processed meat, perhaps the problem was tomato. Studies that can show causation have not been able to link meat and cancer.
See the response to my earlier comment
@jet@hackertalks.com I think you know the more recent science on fibre, could you answer this human’s comment that some national and university sites say fibre is important.
We were talking about constipation, but I expect the links to point at gut health
Sure, here you go -
Stopping or reducing dietary fiber intake reduces constipation and its associated symptoms
Fibre provides short chain fatty acids to some parts of the colon, but that isn’t the only way to do so (ketones). Fibre is a net positive in diets that are unhealthy because it acts as a anti-nutrient blocking the absorption of food but if the diet is mostly poison this is a net positive.
source(s)?
I’m not great on sources, sorry. I read stuff, absorb it, forget the origin. I do recall the strength of the sources though, and both claims are backed by pretty strong sources, especially the fibre one. Cancer might be from first principles and plus the weakness of the evidence of cancer risk, which has problems in methods, but even with those problems only managed a hazard ratio of less than 2. Real effects typically have hazard ratios over 4
If you search in this community you’ll probably find posts about each of those topics
You may need to read research papers as this is a pretty science heavy community
The YouTube videos posts are typically by MDs with clinical experience with keto and carnivore, most are pretty short, and all have AI summaries
saying fibre makes you constipated is like saying that protein stunts growth
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This is NOT a balanced diet
A “balanced diet” is a concession term when someone doesn’t have grounded in nutrition. It just means “I don’t know, a little bit of everything”.
A balanced diet includes alcohol - it’s a poison… what is the benefit?
Carnivore is a nutritionally complete whole food diet with no deficiencies.
a balanced diet does NOT include alcohol.
Balanced is a weasel word, it means whatever people want it to mean, it is an appeal to middle ground.
Oh look, a balanced food guide allowing alcohol… oh heavens, looks like the international body on balanced nutrition is slipping.
Alcohol also contains lots of calories (kcal) and should be limited to no more than 14 units per week for men and women
