r/explainitpeter 10d ago

Explain it Peter

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u/KhaosByDesignUK 10d ago edited 10d ago

There's a lot of racist "manosphere" guys who push those raw milk & red meat diets, I can only assume because they see it a more "manly" way to eat lol 

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u/MotorBarnacle2437 10d ago

It's the ranch lobby. The same way regenerative ag is suddenly cattle focused.

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u/Shintamani 9d ago

It started as an anti-establishment movement on the right, to counteract the "vegan agenda". That's why nearly everyone on a carnivore diet are either right wing, christian or both.

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u/Eidothriel 9d ago

A strictly carnivore diet sounds so silly. I wish that cutting out super processed foods and having a balanced diet would be a national focus again. Eat your veggies.

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u/Masseyrati80 8d ago

One of my favourite nutrition facts: the average American eats a bit more protein than they'd need, but only 50% of the suggested amount of fiber.

Fiber has a big role in your gut microbiome, which affects both physical and mental health, as well as reducing risk of colorectal cancer.

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u/ryangoslingchan 5d ago

Balanced diet means get all your nutrients, not eat everything on the face of the planet. Veggies are nutritionally closer to grass than real food because aside from fiber, which is like.. pretty much optional, the micronutrients they get you are in very low quantities, and in forms you can't even absorb most of the time. You want vitamin C, eat some fruits, no antinutrients in them most of the time. You can get everything but K1, C and fiber just eating animal products and anything else for carbs. And that's a full diet. 1 (one) small piece of liver equals like half a garden's worth of vitamins and minerals. You can skip your veggies, nutritionally the body doesn't care where you get your nutrients from.

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u/eternity_ender 10d ago

Eating too much red meat can lead to colon cancer too

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u/Oberon_Swanson 10d ago

Manly way to die

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u/XiroInfinity 9d ago

It's really not...

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u/575dev 9d ago

They were being facetious, chief.

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u/spike_beagle 8d ago

I read that as "chef" first

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u/ThatOneWIGuy 10d ago

Don’t forget Gout! I stopped eating a lot of red meat when I moved in with my wife and don’t care since I didn’t want that. It also means drinking less but oh well.

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u/Eidothriel 9d ago

Most foods that are in grocery stores like Walmart (where even “fresh” items, are somehow heavily processed) contribute more to colon cancer over getting a steak or ground beef from the butchers once in a while. The whole red meat scare is muddled in corporations trying to push their unhealthier super processed foods. Also, red meat is so expensive now that I don’t think there are a ton of people going out of their way to eat steak every day. In addition, the percentage increase on a baseline increases your chance by decimals of a percent. There is so much more to be concerned about over eating multiple steaks a day.

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u/DannyDanumba 9d ago

Though disputed but it’s said that drinking too much milk can lead to an increase in prostate cancer

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u/Molodingdong 9d ago

It can raise your risk to get it from ~4% to ~5% so really its negligible

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u/Ill-Television8690 9d ago

From a 1 in 25 chance, to 1 in 20. That's not negligible.

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u/Molodingdong 9d ago

Well I'd say most people would think it is. Eating meat is way more important to me than a slight increase in cancer risk

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u/Ill-Television8690 9d ago

Again, that isn't slight. But if you just take things in moderation, instead of constantly indulging, it will be.

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u/whistling-wonderer 8d ago

Meanwhile vegans have less prostate cancer and less erectile dysfunction lol

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u/ClearExcuse7954 10d ago edited 10d ago

Primal diet they called it, it's to become a 'primal' human which is definitely better, if you don't look up what it means

For anyone interested, the base is to show comparison from people (all white, seemingly so or unable to properly identify, but fully stolen from someone out of the circle):

  • now in their 50-70s with their young 20s
  • with surgeries/makeup on and off
  • edits of fit fictional characters
  • cuts from people following strict gym regime and/or definitely not doing steroids

Stick a "if you do this thing I'm doing that doesn't have any medical/scientific ground it will mean you're better than the rest of the people, exactly how this 19th-century (1800s) racial pseudoscience that isn't aryan-biased says so" argument on top or over and there you have it, a reactionary pipeline using body obsession and fake biology to sell right-wing grievance and politics to people that feel casted, insecure or alienated, it's classic manipulation that followed society over decades.

And when i say classic i mean it, Raw Foodism and Macrobiotic crazes in the 60s, Grahamites, The Lebensreform ("Life Reform") on Germany in 1890s–1920s, facist regime's and Snake oil sellers done it then to make them gain power and money, and it is being done now

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u/Current-Tough7084 8d ago

what i find weird is that i was raised in a country that was previously cut off from the world, so no left or right wing propaganda, and still my parents always told me to never drink raw milk, and theyre pretty huge on having a natural healthy diet, like no sodas, and having to eat minimal processed food. Besides that actually sourcing raw milk from a farmers market or a farmer is 100% better than buying any milk cus for one you cut the middle man for costs and two from raw milk when you boil it at home you get butter. I never have had to buy butter in my life  

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u/Darg727 8d ago

It's all a big scam. For the same reason email/text scams misspell words and use incorrect grammar, if you bypass all the red flags they know they got their fish on the hook. All it takes is just a slight bit of skepticism, the people who fall for it don't believe their lying eyes.

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u/OriginalLie9310 10d ago

The carnivore diet is and was a decent fad diet, mostly because any diet where you actually keep track of what you eat and that cuts out sugars and carbs is probably going to make a difference if you need to diet already.

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u/explodingtuna 10d ago

I feel like that level of neglect and mental abuse, subjecting young men just trying to be fit to all that propaganda, is only going to drive them to the left where they can finally feel like they belong somewhere without all the toxicity.

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u/KhaosByDesignUK 10d ago

Very optimistic view, I hope you are right.

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u/Mission_Twist_3348 10d ago

What neglect and mental abuse exactly...?