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The patient, a man in his 40s, told the doctors that the nodules had appeared three weeks prior to his hospital visit. After questioning, they determined that the patient had adopted the so-called carnivore diet approximately eight months prior to the appearance of the nodules.

The carnivore diet is a fad diet based on eating large amounts of animal fats and very little of anything else. The patient in this case reported eating nearly 10 pounds of butter, cheese and other fatty foods every day since embarking on the diet—even going so far as to add fat to the hamburgers he consumed daily.

Blood tests showed the patient's cholesterol was approximately four times normal levels. The doctors diagnosed the patient with xanthelasma, a condition in which yellowish deposits of cholesterol build up in various parts of the body—in this case, on the palms, the soles of his feet and his elbows. His case had progressed to the point that some of the cholesterol was pushing through cracks in the skin.

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[–] carl_dungeon 59 points 1 month ago

This guy eats 10 lbs of food a day? That seems like a lot regardless of whether it’s all fat and meat or not.

[–] Blum0108 58 points 1 month ago (5 children)

"The patient in this case reported eating nearly 10 pounds of butter, cheese and other fatty foods every day since embarking on the diet"

What the fuck. No way that's true.

[–] JeeBaiChow 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Didn't know 'carnivores' exclusively ate such high amounts of processed fat. Quit calling it that.

[–] AlexanderTheDead 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think the movement is largely a reactionary counter to veganism. To them, butter and milk aren't vegan... therefore they are fair game for carnivores!

[–] SocialMediaRefugee 3 points 1 month ago

I think it is just a spin off of the paleo diet, one focused on fats and protein. Yah it is low or no carb but that is unhealthy and abnormal. You'll go into ketosis for a while but the diet is so restrictive most folks can't stick to it.

[–] Dasus 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Milk and butter aren't vegan to anyone.. ?

They're okay for a vegetarian diet as opposed to a vegan one.

There's also quite a lot of different types, like the "basic" one is lacto-ovo-vegetarians, meaning they just don't eat meat of any sort, but eggs and dairy is fine. There's also pescetarians, who don't generally eat meat but do eat fish. (I don't know how they define that, as fish, beavers, muskrats, and capybaras are acceptable to eat on the Fridays leading up to Easter in Catholicism for example)

But I do take your point about "carnivore" being inaccurate for them. Perhaps "lacto-ovo-carnivore"?

[–] AlexanderTheDead 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Right, maybe you would have interpreted my comment correctly if I had typed "milk and butter are not vegan. To them, therefore, they are fair game to any carnivores."

[–] Death_Equity 12 points 1 month ago

10 pounds of butter is like 32,000 calories... Call that a dirty bulk.

[–] CitizenKong 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He must have had very adventurous shitting sessions.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee 4 points 1 month ago

Meat constipation. Guy must burned off 500 calories just pushing it out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Chasing satiety, when one fucking potato would have done it

[–] Treczoks 2 points 1 month ago

He was probably not fat enough to be a "proper American" and wanted to fix that.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My dude is feeding himself like someone is trying to make human Foie gras, even his skin has marbling.

[–] mwproductions 5 points 1 month ago

Kind of like a mellified man, but with fat instead of honey.

[–] Blaster_M 29 points 1 month ago

"Pulse: 300! Liver: Failing! Cholestorol: 40?"

"That's not so bad..."

"No, 40 lbs!"

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Eating only one thing to the exclusion of everything else causes weird problems? The hell you say!

I mean, I only eat pizza, but it's fine, unlike stupid carnivores or vegans. You see, pizza inherently contains all the food groups, and one piece of pizza is shaped like the food pyramid, so it is, in fact, a good, balanced diet.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That would be funny if I didn’t know people that actually said it with conviction.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee 2 points 1 month ago

Seriously. You can't assume someone is being sarcastic when it comes to food. All sorts of crazy ideas out there.

[–] Death_Equity 4 points 1 month ago

FDA says pizza is a vegetable. It is the perfect, nutritionally balanced food.

[–] jpreston2005 2 points 1 month ago

I hosted my younger brother fora few months and he almost exclusively ate frozen pizza, with the occasional taco bell run 😬

course, I'm not much better. I eat turkey sandwiches with veggie soup every dinner, with a big bowl of oatmeal every morning. It's been OK thus far, but sometimes I wonder what else my body craves, and if it is, indeed, brawndo

[–] ProIsh 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's smart. You can evolve so much you get rid of cholesterol through your skin? Doctors hate him!

[–] SocialMediaRefugee 2 points 1 month ago

He craps out of his mouth too!

[–] PillBugTheGreat 14 points 1 month ago

There you have it, the nurture path for wagyu human. His marbling must be off the hook.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Studies of ancient people like Ötzi and dental plaque on Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal teeth show that the whole idea of a meat only paleo diet is bogus. They were eating plenty of grains and other plants too.

[–] MothmanDelorian 8 points 1 month ago

There's no society that was carnivorous and lived long. Connecting the Inuit peoples, who largely subsisted off of meat, to Canadian society gave them access to canned veggies which increased their average life span by decades. You need to eat plants whereas you can eat animals.

[–] AnUnusualRelic 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How was he even still alive? He's a natural wonder, he belongs in a museum.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

He already took care of the embalming too !

[–] Dkarma 9 points 1 month ago

Dudes literally leaking his own yolk

[–] Treczoks 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would not call this a "carnivore" diet. This was about eating fat.

[–] SoftestSapphic 4 points 1 month ago

Man ate so much butter it's leaking out of his skin

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Dude looks like the inside of a popcorn bag.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart 7 points 1 month ago

What a beta male.

Those nodules wouldn't dream of growing on us sigma ones.

[–] paraphrand 6 points 1 month ago

I suspect they were not following the diet correctly. 🧐

[–] captainlezbian 4 points 1 month ago

How do you eat the diet in question‽ Like, first of all that sounds like so fucking much food, but then it also sounds gross, and beyond that eventually you're going to need to shit and I can't imagine it's pleasant when that's what you eat like

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

vascular genius

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

"this supermarket is a disgrace! 60%... 70%... Where's the real food!? Where's the 0.5% chopped "meat?" How's a man supposed to live!?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why can't people be normal

[–] SocialMediaRefugee 2 points 1 month ago

Or at least not use the only body they will ever get as an experiment.

[–] Zomg 3 points 1 month ago

He's a real alpha male guys.

/S

[–] chonglibloodsport 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Carnivore diet based on eating only fat? What nonsense is that! Wouldn’t it be based on eating meat? Otherwise it should be called lipivore.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Apparently it's considered an "elite" diet, because it's so expensive to correctly follow. I'm guessing the addition of fats is either an attempt to lower cost, or they took tips from keto influences (remember the butter in coffee fad?).

Jordan Peterson is one of the people claiming it has health benefits lol

[–] chonglibloodsport 0 points 1 month ago

Eating extra fats is one thing (bacon etc) but eating mostly fats is idiotic. Need protein, vitamins, and minerals. Fat has none of those.

[–] pigup 1 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I heard Catturd had to go to the hospital cause of his anti-fiber diet. Something about his shits not working right. He and this guy should be friends. Idiots.

[–] MothmanDelorian 1 points 1 month ago

Did anyone else get an ad for a keto diet on this?

[–] Sanctus -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey [email protected] where you at bud? This happen to you yet?

[–] Sanctus -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess I dunno how to tag users lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

They're showing as tagged here, using Voyager on Android 👍