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Topic
#5902

The Carnivore Diet Is Stupid

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Number of rounds
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Description

Don't be a monkey's ass cheek, if you try to argue that carnivore diet can't be "stupid" because diets don't have cognitive faculties you auto-lose. What I mean by "stupid" is that it's a stupid idea to adopt a carnivore diet, that it is bad for you and that arguments favoring the carnivore diet are stupid ones used by stupid people.

Round 1
Pro
#1
1: Human metabolism doesn't match that of carnivorous animals. When you are on the carnivore diet, you derive most of your energy by burning fat and converting it into "ketones" which is called ketosis. There are virtually no animals on earth who use ketones as a primary energy source and the very few that do bare no resemblance to humans biologically. Ketosis is a back up plan, a biological fail safe to prevent you from dying when you are starving. Actual carnivorous animals convert amino acids into carbohydrates, and when humans replicate an actual carnivore's macronutrient ratios we tend to die because protein happens to be the macronutrient we are the worst at using for energy. This of course would be impossible if we were adapted to living solely off animal products, because in nature we would find that most of the caloric composition of the animals we kill would be protein, especially since wild game is a lot leaner than the livestock we have bred into existence over the years.

2: The carnivore diet destroys your microbiome. The bacteria in our digestive tract is vital for literally every aspect of our health, and without carbs or fiber in your diet the ecosystem therein would collapse and the beneficial bacteria would die. Without their much needed carbs and fiber, the bacteria would first eat the protective lining of mucus covering the inner intestinal tract, leaving you open to severe bowel inflammation and parasitic infestation, before finally dying and taking your neurochemistry and immune system with them. People on the carnivore diet claim it has done good things for their mental health among other things, but this is because they removed processed food and harmful additives from their diet or because they had food sensitivities. Given enough time things will get worse, and it will be harder and harder to reintroduce plant foods since the microbiome will be in severely bad shape. If you can't handle fiber then there is an underlying issue that must be addressed and carnivore diet is running away from the problem and making it worse rather than fixing it. Maybe if you already have severe problems with fiber or certain plant foods, it works as a VERY temporary elimination diet, but long term it will always molest you in the butt hole cheeks.

3: The "plants are toxic" argument is stupid. Yes, plants use poison to defend themselves but just as certain plant-predators develop adaptations to combat certain defense chemicals, plants also develop adaptations against certain predators. Just because broccoli has defense chemicals doesn't mean those chemicals are meant to kill us specifically, especially since we have specifically bred plants like broccoli to be more edible for thousands of years. The plants we eat are mostly trying to deter insects, not the large predators who are actively cultivating them and making sure they reproduce (humans). Broccoli has no Darwinistic selective pressure to kill humans because no matter how much broccoli we eat we will just grow more of it and evolution only cares about whether you reproduce or not.

4: It is stupid to adopt a diet which specifically excludes everything that the scientific consensus says is healthy and specifically only eat the foods it says promote disease. I'm not someone who just believes whatever I'm told, maybe the consensus is a conspiracy created by the Jews to make the public malnourished and docile or maybe it's not. I highly doubt that it is rational however to simply discount the mountains of studies which say plant foods are good for you and meat is bad for you without having a damn good basis for it. Sure there are studies that challenge the status quo, but most of them are lower on the hierarchy of empirical rigor as it pertains to the types of studies that can be conducted. When you look at the peer-reviewed meta-analyses of peer-reviewed randomized controlled trials conducted by peer-reviewed sources they mostly suggest that you are a peer-reviewed retard for only eating the literal leading cause of disease and avoiding the literal leading cause of not having disease. Think about it, heart disease is the leading cause of death in the "civilized" world and the leading cause of heart disease is literally saturated fat and LDL from animal products. So a diet based on only eating the literal primary cause of death is basically the stupidest concept ever conceived by man.
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