• Raiderkev@lemmy.world
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    “The carnivore diet is a fad diet based on eating large amounts of animal fats and very little of anything else. The patient in this case reported eating nearly 10 pounds of butter, cheese and other fatty foods every day since embarking on the diet—even going so far as to add fat to the hamburgers he consumed daily.”

    I had assumed carnivore was exactly what it sounded like, and just a diet where you only ate meat. This is completely stupid.

  • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world
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    Sick gainz.

    Why wouldn’t you stop though?

    Man’s extruding butter.

    His liver was like: I’ll just put this here for now.

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    The carnivore diet is a fad diet based on eating large amounts of animal fats and very little of anything else. The patient in this case reported eating nearly 10 pounds of butter, cheese and other fatty foods every day since embarking on the diet—even going so far as to add fat to the hamburgers he consumed daily.

    Blood tests showed the patient’s cholesterol was approximately four times normal levels. The doctors diagnosed the patient with xanthelasma, a condition in which yellowish deposits of cholesterol build up in various parts of the body—in this case, on the palms, the soles of his feet and his elbows. His case had progressed to the point that some of the cholesterol was pushing through cracks in the skin.

    I saw some idiot on here a while ago saying his gf ate a pound of butter everyday and I thought it was insane…

    But 10 pounds of fat a day?!

    This guy is a fucking idiot, I get there’s all types of misinformation about diet these days, but who could think that would be healthy?

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      This whole situation sounds like an episode out of The Simpsons. This guy is a real life Homer.

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      I saw some idiot on here a while ago saying his gf ate a pound of butter everyday and I thought it was insane…

      That’s a standard southerners diet

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        Shit, you get a house in the south, a Paula Deen cookbook appears if you don’t already own one.

        A pound of butter is just part of one meal. And then there’s dessert. These people eat so much goddamn buttercake. I have had customers tell me they put butter on our pound cakes. Just straight butter.

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      I completely agree that this guy must be a rather slow thinker.

      Why would he think the carnivore diet is only eating fat? It’s kind of in the name… You eat the meat and fat from animals… like a carnivore would.

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        It’s not a huge jump, we didn’t evolve to just eat meat like cats did.

        Like, you can “survive” on it for a long time, but eventually there’s going to be a bunch of complications.

        So they already believe one crazy thing that’s popular enough to have communities, it shouldn’t be shocking to see some go on to believe even crazier shit. It just keeps concentrating the crazy.

        Same phenomenon that happens with lots of different groups, at least with this one they’re only hurting themselves I guess.

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          It is a huge jump. There’s a whole bunch of animals (even mammals) that eat nothing but dead animal. Meat, fat and sometimes bones, aka carnivores…

          There is not a single animal that lives purely on fat, so I have no clue why anyone would think that’s a viable diet.

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    Someone doing a carnivore diet responded to my username in an unrelated thread and told me they were eating all the animals I wasn’t. I guess to try and taunt me? Going on to say they were the healthiest they ever been and I was definitely a sick child.

    I guess I feel own’d. I’ve been throughly own’d. Please continue own’ing. 😂

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    I don’t think I eat 10 pounds of food a day. I feel like if I ate 10 pounds of fatty foods a day, I would feel sick to my stomach all day.

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    Edit: I confused dezi with centi, so you need to multiply the density for blood with 10. So cholesterol levels were above 1% instead of above 10%, which makes much more sense.

    Original post: Normal human blood has a density of around 10 g/dL (like water, which is the biggest part), so a cholesterol level above 1000 mg/dL (=1 g/dL) means more than 10% of the blood was cholesterol.

    That is for sure not healthy when a value above 240 mg/dL already is in the dangerous category.

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        As far as I have read LDL by itself doesn’t block arteries. Arterial plaque, or calcification attracts LDL to help repair it - in a healthy individual LDL does many things, and repair is one of them -, but for people with advanced cardio vascular disease the “emergency equipment” might end up blocking the entire roadway.

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        Apparently partly because his body was secreting the cholesterol over his skin in the form of yellow stuff =D

        But yeah, I have no idea how that guy was still able to walk. Maybe because it was so quickly happening that his heart hadn’t yet withered due to the increased blood pressure?

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      water’s density is 100g/dl, not 10, so, not quite as severe as you said. the article said that the patient’s cholesterol levels were roughly four times normal.

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    That’s not a carnivore diet, that’s a butter diet.
    And practically no one is a carnivore.
    They eat carrion (meat from animals that they didn’t kill themselves).

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      Hey. This is your one warning. Please don’t come into my community trying degrade or belittle anyone’s idea or lifestyles. If you disagree, fine, present some data, but we aren’t going to pick fights.

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      Thanks for pinging me, its a interesting abstract, but I can’t find the actual case study.

      From this report the person was eating 10LBS of butter per day… that… that is wild - 30,000 kcal PER DAY in just BUTTER. That is not a well formulated diet. If anyone has the full case study I’d love to read it.

      NOBODY should follow a diet for dogmatic reasons. We live one life, we all want to highest quality life possible. If your diet is reaching your goals, great - keep doing it. If it’s not working for you, be your own scientist and change things until it works. We are responsible for our own outcomes, nobody else.

      Sunshine - no need for antagonistic attacks, that just makes lemmy a hostile place for everyone.