Originally Posted by
terrymorse
Here's what:
- no fiber = bad for the colon
- animal protein promotes harmful gut biome
- high saturated fat load -> high bile acids -> pro-inflammatory
- high heme iron content in red meat -> carcinogenic
People consuming diets high in animal products and low in whole plant foods consistently show higher colorectal cancer incidence than populations consuming fiber-rich diets.
There are many bad things to be said about processed meats like Deli ham and such, as well as for excess of anything that is otherwise globally good, like ω3s, and rightfully so.
However, the chances that a whole food animal-based diet would be overall beneficial to a human being are close to, if not exactly, 100%, because that is the diet humans evolved on, among other things
hunting down elephants and eating their meat and fat.
Now, if you want to do plants, that is fine, many of them are inoffensive anyways, but by their own nature they cannot be a big part of the diet because they are not packing that much energy and/or they cannot be consumed in large enough amounts. I can add a whole eggplant next to my fish and it is mostly bulk. I can do some giant beans with red tomato sauce, but anything beyond a hundred grams or so and the bloating will be insufferable.
With eggs every day, fatty fish every other day, and red meat once or twice per week, and smaller portions of all of those on the regular, you are not subject to running into any problems.