One thing your cardiologist will tell you to avoid is things fried in butter.
And steak.
Especially the fat from steak.
This is the standard advice given to anyone who is diabetic or has high cholesterol, blood pressure, insulin levels – Okay. It’s basically the standard advice.
Non-Standard Advice
But a new Harvard study flies in the face of the “standard” recommendations.
It followed 2029 people who chose to eat a “carnivore” diet.
This means they ate almost no:
- Vegetables (starchy or non-starchy)
- Legumes
- Fruit
- Grains
- Sugar or honey
- Breaded or fried fast-food meats
- Chocolate
- Candy or desserts
Instead eating primarily:
- Ruminant meat (Beef, lamb, goat and venison)
- Pork, chicken and eggs
- Fish
- Organ meat
- Salt
Instant death by eating anything fried in butter
According to the health guidelines outlined in the food guide – most of these people should become ill, and die of heart disease quite quickly.
What motivated them to adopt this kind of diet?
- 78% said weight/body composition
- 74% said focus and energy
- 56% said allergy/skin/autoimmunity
- 52% said digestive health
- And 11% said diabetes.
They ate this way for an average of 14 months.
And you may wonder what they found after eating this way for 14 months. Here’s what they experienced:
- 93% improved or resolved their body weight/obesity
- 93% improved or resolved hypertension
- 84% improved or resolved cardiovascular issues
- 98% improved or resolved diabetes and insulin resistance
- 97% improved or resolved gastrointestinal issues
- 89% improved or resolved autoimmune conditions
- 96% improved or resolved musculoskeletal issues
- 96% improved or resolved psychiatric symptoms
- 92% improved or resolved urologic issues
- 92% improved or resolved dermatologic issues.
Reversed type 2 diabetes?
Of particular importance to my readers, 90% discontinued or decreased insulin, 92% stopped insulin for type 2 diabetes altogether, 100% discontinued other diabetes injectables, and 84% discontinued oral diabetes medications.
This means that there is no drug that comes close to having the spectacular health outcomes that the carnivore diet provides. It looks like we should be eating steak fried in butter.
The majority of the results for those suffering from type 2 diabetes come from eliminating the high carbohydrate diet we all suffer from.
“But what about heart disease from all that fat?”
While LDL tended to increase, it raised HDL (good cholesterol) levels to optimal for most participants. Overall, 56% saw an improvement in their lipid panels, while only 19% saw them worsen. (And we could have a whole discussion on how useful lipid panels are when it comes to heart disease since 74% of heart attacks occur in people with normal LDL levels.)
Don’t take my word for it, though. Check out the study here.
Over the past decade, more and more information is guiding us away from the SAD (Standard American Diet) and toward cutting the carbs to improve health and extend life.
One more nail in the coffin of maintaining the status quo and eating the “diabetic diet.”
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