BuzzinSATX
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There’s also quite a few healthy folks eating a carnivore diet with no processed foods. The other end of the speectrum works too.
Good luck to you on that. The low/no carb diets are certainly popular these days. I think Keto and CBD Oil emails are the biggest SPAM I get these days.
I’ve looked at Keto and Carnivore. Short term results do appear great. But what is going on with the colon and intestines? How does cancer activity fit in? What are the long term issues with the immune system?
When you eat a lot of meat and fats and little fiber, you run the risk of developing “leaky gut” syndrome. Also, our immune systems are largely based in our digestive system, and the bacteria associated with animal foods are not the ones most conducive to good digestive processes.
There have been many long term studies on high animal consumption in groups like the Eskimo and Inuit tribes (fatty fish and mary be mammals and red meat) and the Maasai in Africa (milk, blood, meat). There are good and not so good results.
When you look at the “Blue Zone” diets around the world, you find diets heavy in plants, whole grains, and seafood. Not much meat or dairy.
There are not a lot of populations of very old and healthy people living on diets of mostly meats and dairy.
And the huge volumes of data and clear correlations between diet and chronic disease from the “China Study” by Dr Campbell are statistically very significant, and clearly verify long term benefits of plant centric diets versus western style diets.
I agree there are issues these days with grains...and if you google “grain brain”, you’ll find info on how folks are noticing greater cognitive functions when they take grains out of their diet. Personally, I personally believe this has much more to do with the fact that the soils in our Nations Midwest is over farmed and over fertilized with chemicals and herbicides, and the fact that our major grains are largely GMO.
Anyway, good luck to you all. If folks want links to info sources, PM me. Lots of interesting documentaries on Netflix and Amazon.