Exposing the hypocrisy of meat based diets

I've been a gymnast since my early youth and diet had always been on the forefront of most conversations in my family. I adopted a no-meat, no-sugar, no-fat diet early on in the game, like prior to high school. One of the problems with eating red meat like beef is that it takes about 3 full days for meat to digest in the human body, which means the body has to produce enzymes it wouldn't normally produce JUST to break down the red meat during the digestion process. What this means is, red meat is actually foreign to the human body which is why we shouldn't be eating it.

Another reason why we shouldn't be eating red meat is because of the growth hormones that remain active in red meat long after the animal has been readied for market. Those growth hormones then become active in the person who eats that red meat containing growth hormones. This is why young girls are developing breasts years sooner than their counterparts of 40 and 50 years ago when growth hormones were not used in beef production. This would also speak to the issue of such a high incidents of breast cancer developing in young adult women today that was never seen in young women 40 and 50 years ago.

I've been largely vegetarian since university, when I took it up because I found it was possible to eat more cheaply and interestingly. Later I formed the view that farmed meat is an extremely inefficient way of producing calories . . if it takes 20kg of grain to produce 1kg of beef why not just eat the grain? I also feel more comfortable eating fresh produce that has had minimal processing. I am not ideologically attached to any particular diet - we don't restrict dairy and have recently reintroduced some meat to our meal plans for the sake of our teenage daughter - but I do admit it is quite satisfying to annoy certain right wingers 🤣

I always try to balance both. I love my raw plants and my meats, but after my after my bloodwork test. My LDL are levels are slowly climbing.

Its time to push more veggies and less meats

My diet is akway changing with my age.

I'm 57 by the way

At the end of the day, our bodies are actually adapted to a wide range of foods. The issues tend to come when mixing certain kinds of fat with certain kinds of carbs. It's not that fat is bad for you vs carbs are bad for you, it's the chemistry between them. High carb, low fat. High fat, low carb. Moderate fat, moderate carb. Our bodies are pretty good at managing all of those. It's the high fat, high carb combination that does a lot of damage.

I've done very well on a high meat keto diet in the past. I'll probably do it again in the future. Though I go meat heavy for satiation I am very nutrient minded and never went full carnivore.

Pretty sure I would be miserable if I went full carnivore or full vegan.

I eat meat. I eat eggs (a poultry product, so I'll be darned if I know why they are put with the milk in the stores). I eat "complementary" non-meat protein. Meats and eggs have all the essential amino acids humans need to have to manufacture protein in their bodies. Corn and rice have some of those essential amino acids. Legumes, nuts, beans have some other essential amino acids. If you eat beans and rice, or beans in a corn tortilla, you will also be getting a combination of all essential amino acids, if they are eaten simultaneously. In a good diet, both grain/legume and meat/egg/milk combos are used as sources of complete amino acids for our bodies.

I'd love to go plant based but I'm thin to begin with and going on that diet I'd lose too much weight. Also I've noticed vegans especially are always pale and kind of sickly looking

Sorry but a healthy diet is meat, vegetables and fruit.
Cutting out any of those is not good for you