By Ileana Zambrano
It has been a long time since I last felt this good. I have lost weight, I feel more energetic, and I am not hungry. Best of all, I have been able to stick with this diet for much longer than with any other diet I had tried before. And believe me, guys, when I tell you I have tried every diet there is: Paleo, Keto, The South Beach Diet, Dukan, Atkins… you name it. This one, though, The Carnivore Diet, has not only worked, but it’s also the most delicious, because I get to eat meat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
A lot has been said about an excessive consumption of meat. A study published in the US National Library of Medicine affirms that too much meat leads to cardiovascular disease, colorectal cancer and type 2 diabetes (Battaglia, Baumer, Conrad, Darioli, Schmid, & Keller, 2015). However, a more recent article of the Annals of Internal Medicine reads: “We found low to very low certainty evidence that diets lower in unprocessed red meat may have little or no effect on the risk for major cardiometabolic outcomes and cancer mortality and incidence” (Johnston BC., Zeraatkar D., Han MA., et al., 2019). So… who should we believe? I am a firm believer that nobody knows your body better than yourself, and if you are feeling good, is because everything is good. Over time, different studies and investigations deliver conflicting results. What is good today, is reported to be lethal tomorrow. So, for the time being, I have decided I will continue with my Carnivore Diet, and I will continue enjoying its benefits… After all, humans didn’t fight to be at the top of the food chain just to eat veggies, right?
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References
Battaglia, Richi., Baumer,B., Conrad ,B., Darioli, R., Schmid,.A & Keller, U. (2016, January) Health Risks Associated with Meat Consumption: A Review of Epidemiological Studies. Retrieved from
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26780279
Johnston BC, Zeraatkar D, Han MA, et al. (2019, November). Unprocessed Red Meat and Processed Meat Consumption: Dietary Guideline Recommendations From the Nutritional Recommendations (NutriRECS) Consortium. Ann Intern Med. 2019;171:756–764. Retrieved from
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