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Avoid the carnivore diet like the plague.

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[โ€“] SatyrSack@feddit.org 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wow, even the LSD guy was in on it. Talk about not getting high on your own supply.

Owsley Stanley ate a carnivorous diet for over fifty years, until he died in 2011.

From at least the mid-1960s until his death, Stanley practiced and advocated an all-meat diet, believing that humans are naturally carnivorous. He argued that rare red meat was a complete food and that a diet of such is optimal for human health and longevity. He held many radical opinions on biology and nutrition. He argued that the body could not store protein or fat as adipose tissue, but would instead be simply excreted if consumed in excess, and that only consumption of carbohydrates and sugars could make someone obese. He also theorized that diabetes was not technically a disease but actually the term for the damage wrought by insulin, and that adopting a zero carb diet would treat this so-called disease.

[โ€“] Themadbeagle@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Does he understand what the word disease means. I mean clearly not, just had to say it.