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.
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.
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
That would be funny if I didn’t know people that actually said it with conviction.
Seriously. You can’t assume someone is being sarcastic when it comes to food. All sorts of crazy ideas out there.
FDA says pizza is a vegetable. It is the perfect, nutritionally balanced food.