After having previously eaten lots of vegetables, then switched to virtually no plants, I came to the conclusion that the human digestive system is much better off with as little plant matter as possible going through it and that meat is what our digestive system is better suited for processing. Obviously humans are omnivores, which allowed us to survive on some kinds of plants when meat was scarce. However, all other omnivores prefer either meat or plants (although they can survive on either or both) and I think humans do better on meat than plants. If you are curious about the effects of a lack of indigestible fibre, just google "fibre menace". Like most conventional dietary advice, the idea that we need lots of fibre is flat wrong and was mostly made up based on very flimsy evidence. Same with the idea that red meat is unhealthy. And that mono- and polyunsaturated fat from oils are healthy. Etc.
Neither did the Eskimos it seems.
It was just an evolving way of thinking about diet that got me to all-meat. It was obvious that the standard dietary advice to eat lots of carbs was deadly for type 2 diabetics, but then I started examining all the other standard dietary advice. Upon closer examination I found virtually all the advice was not based on good science (eat whole grains, get lots of fibre, avoid red meat, avoid saturated fat, eat margirine and refined plant oil). Eventually I was down to two pieces of advice that I thought made sense: minimize sugar intake and eat lots of vegetables. I heard about people that had vastly improved their health by eating only meat, so I looked into the idea that vegetables and fruit were magically healthy. What I found was that they aren't. I heard about Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who was a Canadian arctic researcher who lived with Inuit for many years in the early 20th century and ate what they ate and noticed that he did quite well on their virtually all-animal sourced food for many years. Of course, people in the US and Canada were skeptical when he talked about it, so he and a fellow arctic researcher went on an all-meat diet for a year under medical supervision. They didn't get scurvy and, in fact, were healthier at the end of the year than they were at the start. (you can read his book about it here: http://highsteaks.com/the-fat-of-the-land-not-by-bread-alone-vilhjalmur-stefansson.pdf)
I've shared that on Facebook, I believe we should let as many people as possible know about low carbs. The nhs certainly doesn't plug it!
That's ok if you don't believe it. I'm not going to stop you from eating your 5 a day if that's what you believe you need. There's not much point in looking at Inuit health after European contact. They immediately began trading furs and ivory for flour and sugar (among other things). I don't think anyone would argue that they are healthier now that they eat a more western diet compared to their traditional diet. (Interestingly, I know of an Inuk and a Cree who switched to all-meat recently - both women seem to be doing well on a diet that's pretty close to their ancestral diet). Also, the Europeans brought communicable diseases the Inuit had no immunity to (definitely average life span reducing). The proof of the pudding is in the eating: modern, western people on all-animal diets are mostly very healthy (although there are not very many of us). There is certainly a lot more evidence for it than the Inuit, who managed to do quite well for several thousand years on virtually all meat diets in a rather harsh environment.
Maybe, but I don't eat any of that and I don't have scurvy. Check this out: https://zerocarbzen.com/vitamin-c/
Yes, I already know that the idea that vegetables are a miracle health food is a romantic myth not based in science, even though it's been drummed into us for decades as being true.
And I don't put much stock in opinions about meat from vegans. They tend to be a tad biased. Dr. McDougall has come up with a diet that he calls "starch based" that is mostly starch (rice, potatoes, pasta, etc) with virtually no fat and also no animal products. He recommends this diet for diabetics. No thanks.
It's quite simple: eat mostly meat (I eat mostly beef, non-organic, non-grass finished), some other animal based food like bacon, eggs, cheese and seafood) and drink water (black coffee or coffee with some heavy cream is ok). Salt, pepper, some spices is ok. Hot sauce is ok. Of course, if you are not producing enough insulin, even a no carb diet will result in high blood glucose.
Derek