If red meat was 70%- 90% of someone's diet, would they get sick if they all of a sudden stopped eating it?

I don’t see how that couldn’t but improve your health. People are not meant to consist on such a diet.

While they might feel weird/ill initially, it would certainly be for the best (unless, of course, a cardiac arrest is actually what they are aiming for…)

Not sure if it would affect the body or not, but at most since its not what the body completely requires and you don’t feel a need to eat it then it shouldn’t do. :/

They’d probably start to feel absurdly more healthy within a week, and as long as they made sure to keep up their iron and protein intake, there shouldn’t be any health consequences.

His/her colon would thank them greatly :)

How could someone NOT be sick/dead on a diet like that?

@b There actually is something called “Rabbit Starvation” where you eat nothing but lean meat and you will have explosive diarrhea after the first week and eventually die. I’m sure the quality/ fat percentage would have significance in this diet though.

I try to avoid a diet overloaded with red meat because actually I like chicken and some vegetarian meals better.

But it makes me curious my grandfather ate mostly beef, eggs, pork all of his life. He was skinny and healthy, made it to his 90’s before he succumbed. Lean meat is what man survived on before we became farmers. What I am wondering, as I notice all the overweight non meat eating folks around me, is a diet of meat and veg really that bad for you??? I have lost 8k since I stopped eating white carbs and sugar and started filling up on protein and veg.

I will let you know if I feel as if I am going to expire in the near future.

Yes. You will begin to suffer all the health problems that people on low meat diets have. Like obesity, high blood pressure, rotting teeth, low energy, vitamin deficiencies, and diabetes. The so-called diseases of civilization. The sorts of things that have become endemic since low fat and vegetarian diets became popular.

@Theseus Well said! Welcome to Fluther!

@Theseus – not only the low fat foods but also the highly processed white carbs and sugar. They are the root of all evil!

What @rooeytoo said. Moderation in all things.

Changing to a balanced diet with less or no meat will not harm you.

probably not

Do you actually KNOW anyone that eats that much red meat?

I do. I once went on an all meat diet for two months. Lost over 30#. The key to it is to make sure it has enough fat, about 75% fat/25% protein calories. My health improved in just about every way. I’ll never eat fruits or vegetables again.

You’re kidding right?

Please send me the plan/outline so I too, can lose weight while munching on my favorite friends in the forest!

No, I’m not. Lots of people do it. Google “Zero carb path” or “all-meat diets.”

Thanx! (pre-heating the grill)

Get that candy cane out of your mouth. It’s pure sugar.

@Theseus Just think, how much weight you would lose if you quit eating completely. Weight loss does not automatically equal healthy. A balanced diet can give you both.

What do you mean by balanced? And how would you know that it is healthier? Humans were not designed for eating vegetable matter. We’re carnivores. A balanced diet for a carnivore is 100% meat.

@Theseus I know it is healthier, because people who eat balanced diets live longer and healthier than those who don’t, on average. If I remember correctly the biggest concentration in the world of healthy, long lived people is in a region where they eat little to no meat.

As a species, humans are omnivores, not carnivore.

Yeah, uh, we’re totally not carnivores. Not even vaguely.

We’re not herbivores strictly either. Most of us great apes have evolved the ability to digest an omnivorous diet because the variety is often beneficial.

Well, it would be like any other addiction….you’d feel it physically and mentally. And yes, I think your body would go through a period of adjustment that might not be very comfortable. But it wouldn’t hurt you in the long run.

@delirium We’re omnivores.

@Val123 Yes… I think I actually mentioned that. Second paragraph. Second sentence. Thirteenth word.

@delirium Yes. (Sorry. I have a bad habit of skipping about when I read stuff…)