Eating a lot of meat lately? Any risks?

Skinhead Kane wrote: »

Lately been eating a lot and I mean a lot of steak, close to 4 or 5 a day and including cheese and other meat products with the steaks. I've decided that I want to try an all meat diet for a few months to see if it benefits me, does anyone recommend or thing there could be risks with it

The World Health Organisation came out with some statements a few years back ...

http://www.who.int/features/qa/cancer-red-meat/en/

10. What types of cancers are linked or associated with eating red meat?

The strongest, but still limited, evidence for an association with eating red meat is for colorectal cancer. There is also evidence of links with pancreatic cancer and prostate cancer.

11. What types of cancers are linked or associated with eating processed meat?

The IARC Working Group concluded that eating processed meat causes colorectal cancer. An association with stomach cancer was also seen, but the evidence is not conclusive.

12. How many cancer cases every year can be attributed to consumption of processed meat and red meat?

According to the most recent estimates by the Global Burden of Disease Project, an independent academic research organization, about 34 000 cancer deaths per year worldwide are attributable to diets high in processed meat.

Eating red meat has not yet been established as a cause of cancer. However, if the reported associations were proven to be causal, the Global Burden of Disease Project has estimated that diets high in red meat could be responsible for 50 000 cancer deaths per year worldwide.

These numbers contrast with about 1 million cancer deaths per year globally due to tobacco smoking, 600 000 per year due to alcohol consumption, and more than 200 000 per year due to air pollution.

Skinhead Kane wrote: »

Lately been eating a lot and I mean a lot of steak, close to 4 or 5 a day and including cheese and other meat products with the steaks. I've decided that I want to try an all meat diet for a few months to see if it benefits me, does anyone recommend or thing there could be risks with it

If you're gonna eat like this you need to keep eye on cholesterol. Animal products contain dietary cholesterol so if you have a high baseline value this could lead to over time plaque forming in your arteries.

Scurvy. Low vit c.

No fibre.

Doesn't seem balanced really.

silverharp wrote: »

on the Vit C thing, Vit C competes with sugar for the transporters into the cells so if you eat sugar you need more Vit C to cancel it out, from what ive heard nobody on this diet has got scurvy which implies there is enough in their diet.

Meat contains next to zero vitamin c. Beside scurvy low vitamin c can cause low iron absorption. Also vitamin c is good for brain health.

May take a while to get scurvy doesn't mean it's doing you any good tho.

Perhaps if you were eating the whole animal i.e. liver and rest of guts it would be enough but eating just cooked steaks sounds a bit mad. I would severely doubt there are any clinical studies to back up anecdotal accounts.

silverharp wrote: »

I meant to add that the liver is a source of Vit C. , you probably aren't meant to restrict to lean steak. Beyond anecdote there is the innuit and other northern people to look at or other mainly meat eating tribes out there.

The average life expectancy of Inuit versus typical Canadian is 12 years lower.

Obviously diet may not be the only thing at play but it's a significant difference nonetheless.

silverharp wrote: »

the point was they were physically healthy and didn't have the chronic health conditions of the average modern westener though some of them are probably munching on mcdonalds at this stage. Any shorter life would be down to lack of healthcare, dangerous environment etc. If they aren't dropping dead of obesity and heart attacks at 40 which they ought to right? on 40 years of that diet, we should be looking at the good things about it

There is no way an Irish person would simulate an inuit diet close enough.

Searles defines Inuit food as mostly "eaten frozen, raw, or boiled, with very little mixture of ingredients and with very few spices added."

"...no fish could be eaten in a cooked state on the spot where caught but could only be enjoyed raw; only when one is a day's march away from the fishing site is it permitted to cook the fish over the flame of a blubber lamp."

No steaks unfortunately.

I've increasingly moved away from veg and toward more meat and fats and feel great for it.

The doctor mentioned above who was on Joe Rogan's podcast is Dr Shawn Baker. While he's a world class level athlete, I'm still undecided on the long term effects of a meat only diet, but am open to the adaptive nature of the human body and the variety of diets it's able to work with.

Jimmy Bottlehead wrote: »

I've increasingly moved away from veg and toward more meat and fats and feel great for it.

The doctor mentioned above who was on Joe Rogan's podcast is Dr Shawn Baker. While he's a world class level athlete, I'm still undecided on the long term effects of a meat only diet, but am open to the adaptive nature of the human body and the variety of diets it's able to work with.

Regardless of your diet I'd recommend getting your blood work done before making the change and then taking it afterwards, along with normal vitals.. blood pressure etc. Then you can compare, when I made a drastic change to my diet, my cholesterol dropped significantly which was the main reason at the time for making the change.

There are examples of athletes at the top of their game from both sides of diet spectrum i.e. Kendirick Farris + Patrik Baboumian who haven't eaten animal products in years.

from the "what ive learned " channel gives it a fair shake of the stick , mentioned that its a good elimination diet

Jimmy Bottlehead wrote: »

I've increasingly moved away from veg and toward more meat and fats and feel great for it.

The doctor mentioned above who was on Joe Rogan's podcast is Dr Shawn Baker. While he's a world class level athlete, I'm still undecided on the long term effects of a meat only diet, but am open to the adaptive nature of the human body and the variety of diets it's able to work with.

Funnily enough I've made the opposite move with a lot more veg/legumes and less meat. I can confidently report the same feelings as yourself.