thanks. So its a bit early to tell of any long term effects. Apart from diabetes, were you otherwise healthy? I am interested, as the idea of giving up so many carbs is a new avenue for me to explore. Hope you dont mind me asking.
Hi, Littlegreycat. This topic is producing some really interesting links and studies. My comment / crack about the traditional Inuit diet, Vitamin C and scurvy has made me search for the original article. Current studies suggest that fat and connective tissue of WILD animals that feed on a large range of food sources may contain enough nutrients to sustain humans. Unlike Inuits most of our meat is farmed and has a different, less varied nutritional profile from wild meat. Also, as you pointed out, Inuits traditionally ate all of a carcass, much of it raw. The amount of VitC needed to prevent scurvy is very small, about 10mcg per day?, but this is not necessarily an optimal level.
Then why not try it and see how you get on?
Minced beef would be fine. There are some zero carbers that only eat minced beef - some eat it raw, most eat it cooked.
That's understandable. It goes in the face of the standard government advice to eat "5 a day", lots of carbs, lots of fibre, and very little fat or red meat. It's almost the opposite of the government diet.
Hi NoCrbs4Me. I am really intrigued by your diet and am fascinated to find someone who can eat in this way. Do you drink tea, coffee or wine at all?
I doubt the meat I eat is deficient in any nutrients that humans need. Do you have a link to these "current studies"? The Inuit did not eat all of a carcass (unless they were starving) - they give the innards to the dogs. Most of what they ate was cooked, at least according to the European explorers that lived with them. Anyway, that's neither here nor there. Regular meat from a grocery store has all the nutrition a person needs.
I drink coffee and occasionally have wine or spirits. I even go off the rails sometimes and eat non-zero carb food, but not very often.
What if we are someone that does not like much meat. I don't eat red meat so just mostly chicken but I don't think we could just live on chicken and be healthy because it is low fat and presumably you need the saturated fat so chicken would not have enough Not that never eating plant foods would be an option for me I love vegetables to much
According to the zero carb experts, you eat the meat you enjoy. "Meat" being anything from the animal kingdom. So, eating chicken should be fine. I'd leave the skin on, though. Chicken has almost as much saturated fat as beef.
Certainly, but my concern is that, oftentimes, diet related health issues don't manifest except over a long period of time. I don't really feel comfortable enough trying it and would be concerned that, given i already eat quite a bit of protein, upping that amount might be genuinely problematic.
tesco's minced beef with the most fat i could find was 11g fat/100g
