Myths about carnivore diet

The carnivorous diet is famous for breaking with all the traditional food stigmas, it is as if someone had thought of creating a diet that consists of doing everything that nutritionists advise against. All this has led a community of health food lovers to strongly oppose this style of eating, considered for them as a total aberration.

Notwithstanding the above, the most shocking thing is that if for a nutritionist, the carnivorous diet does not make sense as a healthy lifestyle, today there are many testimonies and results that show very healthy patterns in people who have maintained this diet for many years.

The truth is that everything we believe to be true by the mere fact of being repeated on numerous occasions does not have to be true, there are many myths when it comes to nutrition, and the carnivorous diet is not exempt from these myths.

We are going to delve into some of the most popular myths about the carnivorous diet, so that we can disprove them and so that they are no longer a reason to stop approaching this diet.

The carnivorous diet is not low in vitamins and minerals.

One of the most widespread myths about the carnivorous diet is that if we only eat meat we will have deficiencies of vitamins and minerals in our organism. The truth is that nothing could be further from the truth. To begin with, carbohydrates are responsible for gluten, which causes a decrease in our body's ability to absorb vitamins and minerals. So just stop eating carbohydrates and you guarantee that decreases the need to provide vitamins and minerals to your body, because it increases the absorption of them.

As if this were not enough, this myth loses all coherence when we think about the properties of animal organs. To cite just a few examples, eating animal heart is extremely rich in vitamin B, eating eyes provides vitamin A and bone marrow contains calcium. There is nothing to limit a carnivore from balancing their meals to get the vitamins and minerals they need to be healthy.

Opposition from environmentalists

Environmentalists have mythologized a number of issues surrounding the carnivore diet, however if we focus on the fact that carnivores seek to ingest grass-fed animals, and in a natural environment, modern agriculture is considerably more harmful to the environment than animal consumption.

The animals that nourish the carnivore diet are raised in natural conditions, under replacement cycles. The way they are raised is friendly to the environment and to these animals. On the other hand, modern industrial agriculture pollutes, destroys soils with pesticides, alters crops and in many cases causes damage to the animals themselves.

The myth of hunger

Eating meat without accompanying it with carbohydrates will not satiate your appetite, at least this is what many people say without even studying a little about it. The truth is that when we eat meat as the only macronutrient, not only does it satiate our appetite, but we need to eat less than if we accompanied it with other foods.

It has been demonstrated that eating only meats plays in our favor at a hormonal level, anxiety and appetite tends to calm down more easily, increases our strength and favors the gain of muscle mass.

How can I eat a diet without fiber?

The fibers as we know come from plants, a carnivorous diet is not going to bring any fiber to