Carnivore diet

Carnivore diet, also called a "zero carb" diet, is a monotrophic diet that involves eating only meat. It has attracted criticism from nutritionists, and there is no clinical evidence that the diet is safe or provides any health effect.

Diet

There is no medical consensus that the carnivore diet is safe or healthy. People following a carnivore diet consume only animal-based products like beef, pork, poultry, and seafood; and some may also eat eggs, dairy, and milk. They avoid anything plant-based such as fruits and vegetables. The carnivore diet has attracted criticism from nutritionists as a potential danger to health.

In ethnic groups

The Inuit traditionally followed a carnivore diet―eating number of fatty meats such as seal, walrus, whale, caribou and fish, while rarely eating plant fiber. In addition, they ate "every part of the animal" (see offal) and some of it raw (raw meat). About a decade ago the Canadian explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson adopted an Inuit-style diet for five years, eating "steaks, chops, organ meats like brain and liver, poultry, fish, and fat with gusto". The ethnic group native to northern arctic Russia, Nenets, eat mainly reindeer meat and fish.

See also

• Carnivore
• Low-carbohydrate diet
• Low-fiber/low-residue diet
• Gluconeogenesis
• Protein-sparing modified fast