-Diablo's Journal, 23 Oct 19

"Trigger Alert
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After my post yesterday I thought I’d follow up with some science.
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And some perspective.
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If you read the comments on my post from yesterday.
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You will see just how religious people become about their dietary choices.
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One of the main reasons for this is that we are emotional beings.
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Nothing that science can say will make someone dismiss their OWN EXPERIENCE.
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If you were sick, & you changed something bout your diet, & you got better.
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You don’t care what science says.
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[Until you get sick again… if you’re unfortunate enough for that to happen.]
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If I had managed to include Keto in the post yesterday, you’d have seen THREE religions battling it out.
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The thing is, for those of us who understand PRINCIPLES we can see why they ‘believe’ what they do.
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Let's put the ethical considerations aside because that isn’t something that science can really give us the ‘facts’ on.
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If you haven’t ever watched the horrific videos of the mistreatment of animals I would encourage you to, at least once in your life.
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Fortunately (for me at least) the farming practices in the UK are is VERY different from what you see in other countries.
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But when it comes to HEALTH, FAT LOSS & PERFORMANCE, we have the science to guide us.
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We know that removing things like meat, dairy & eggs completely has very minimal effects on cardiometabolic disease risk factors.
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But often, when people go vegan they improve their previously poor diet.
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Likewise, we see people go ‘carnivore’ & claim that has hugely improved their health or symptoms.
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A ‘meat only’ diet is essentially a therapeutic fast.
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It is an ‘idiots guide’ to an elimination diet (I mean that in the politest of ways).
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Often people with IBS symptoms feel a lot better (in the short term).
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Likewise, both of these ways of eating tends to reduce calorie intake.
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In the short term, this improves health markers & sometimes feelings of wellbeing.
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A meat-only diet really isn’t a good way to go LONG term. It’s almost certainly unhealthy.
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With enough planning, a vegan diet CAN be complete & healthy.
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Neither is superior to a more balanced approach.
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Both are likely inferior longterm for most people, but everyone gets to choose their own path.
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There haven’t really been any studies on the carnivore diet per se…
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As its just kinda silly idea all-around.
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On the flip side, we do have studies on vegan or vegan type diets.
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For any of you geeks out there, have a read of the recent paper published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
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"A short-term religious “fast” from animal products have a minimal impact on cardiometabolic health biomarkers irrespective of concurrent shifts in distinct plant-based food groups”
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What’s amazing is how the zealots fight their corner with such fervour.
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Not realizing that the zealots on the other end of the spectrum have all the same ‘stories’ (fairy tales? Lol) about how THEIR diet is ‘optimal’.
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While the rest of us sit in the middle, baffled at the power of personal bias.
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“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”

-Martin 'Nutrition' MacDonald

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