What's the minimum number of food items you can survive on exclusively and what are they?
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I'm curious.
For real, steak.
Its the ultimate elimination diet
Beef is very nutrient dense and contains all the nutrients a human needs
The carnivore diet is a thing, and it is just: beef, water and salt.
Most people who do this, do branch out after a while and add eggs, fish, liver etc
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For real, steak.
Its the ultimate elimination diet
Beef is very nutrient dense and contains all the nutrients a human needs
The carnivore diet is a thing, and it is just: beef, water and salt.
Most people who do this, do branch out after a while and add eggs, fish, liver etc
I'd be worried about purines. A diet of pure steak would likely lead to an insane case of gout, which is a buildup of uric acid crystals in your joints... which ranks pretty high on the list of excruciatingly painful things you can be diagnosed with.
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For real, steak.
Its the ultimate elimination diet
Beef is very nutrient dense and contains all the nutrients a human needs
The carnivore diet is a thing, and it is just: beef, water and salt.
Most people who do this, do branch out after a while and add eggs, fish, liver etc
If we are counting singular food items, surely haggis would be a better choice for mixed nutritional values. Both are probably lacking vitamin C though so I hope you like scurvy.
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I'd be worried about purines. A diet of pure steak would likely lead to an insane case of gout, which is a buildup of uric acid crystals in your joints... which ranks pretty high on the list of excruciatingly painful things you can be diagnosed with.
It's a good concern, but people doing zero carb and low carb do not see a increase in gout, quite the opposite. It seems that uric acid is a intermediate indicator and not causal of gout (which is principally drive by fructose)
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If we are counting singular food items, surely haggis would be a better choice for mixed nutritional values. Both are probably lacking vitamin C though so I hope you like scurvy.
Scurvy is a disease where cells are starved by vitamin c... Vitamin C gets into cells via the GLUT-4 transporter. This transporter moves both glucose and vitamin c. In the context of a zero carb diet there is no glucose competing for the glut-4 transporter, so the natural vitamin c levels in the meat are sufficient.
We knew in napoleonic times that soliders with scurvy could be cured with a horse meat diet (it's in the military medical books!)
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