Anyone try the carnivore diet? How did it affect your health after a month or more?

@Deadcutie meat, and I think eggs and cheese are allowed in some versions. I've heard people saying it's been successful online, wondered if anyone not regularly in front of a camera has tried it. Supposedly the short term benefits are really good, but there is a lack of long term study on it.

@ViciDraco funny how people look for answers in weird diets when we all know exercise and healthy balanced eating and proportion is the key?

@Deadcutie many would argue we don't really engage in healthy balanced eating though. We don't really have an idea of what that is with all of the marketing noise. Breads and pastas make an excellent example of something that is a dietary staple but not really beneficial to our health.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think any of the present fad diets are the best answer. But I don't think we have the science settled for the most healthful way to eat. And in fact, it may be different for different genetic lines even.

@ViciDraco true, but what I mean is going all vegetarian or all meat, or all fat or whatever isn’t all healthy either.. my belief is sugar is the big culprit in unhealthy eating.. that and proportions. On average most people in the US eat about 3000 calories more than they need (5-6000 total)
If you’re ingesting 6000 calories and only burning 4000, you aren’t going to be loosing weight and that extra becomes fat..

@Deadcutie sugar is definitely the largest culprit in a number of issues. We crave it because it's supposed to be a rarity in our diets and the reward mechanism gets us to seek it out specifically.

Now that we've solved the scarcity of sugar, we abuse it to trigger that reward center that was crucial to our early development.

Because the worst problem don't typically present until after prime reproduction time, we've not had the negative selection pressure to evolve away from our scarcity designed biology.

@ViciDraco u just went mental science on me.... way over my head