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Leroy, F., Smith, N., Adegbola T Adesogan, Beal, T., Iannotti, L., Moughan, P. and Mann, N. (2023). The role of meat in the human diet: evolutionary aspects and nutritional value. Animal Frontiers , [online] 13(2), pp.11–18. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/af/vfac093 . " indicating evolutionary reliance on, and compatibility with, substantial meat intake" This paper has quite a lot of good information that I could quote and probably not a lot for me to actually write up so your best bet is to just go and read the paper. Here are some highlights. They state that is it likely that there is a contribution between the pushback on meat and the increase in disease seen around the world, this is because the removal of meat leave a broad spectrum of nutrients out of the diet.  Not only is meat the best source for protein but it contains most of the global supply of vitamin B12 and is a good supply for " other B vitamins, retinol, long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, several minerals in ...

As part of my deep dive into nutrition and my attempt to convince people that an animal based diet is ethical, healthy and good for the planet I've been keeping an eye out for relevant articles.  On that note I came across the following article about rice.  The article outlines how "Tanzania has culled millions of quelea birds to prevent them from destroying rice fields". This is just one aspect of how animals are harmed, albeit indirectly, in order to allow people to eats plants. Pound for pound it is likely when combined with pesticides and harvesting deaths of rodents that significantly more animals are harmed as part of a plant based diet when compared to an animal based diet. Plus I doubt being taken out by drones or poisoned are nice ways to go. 

My Score 8/10 Category : Debunking myths on nutrition "The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It" by Dr. Malcolm Kendrick challenges conventional wisdom regarding cholesterol and its alleged link to heart disease. The author presents an alternative perspective that questions the validity of the widely accepted cholesterol hypothesis. Dr. Kendrick delves into the history of the cholesterol theory, examining the research that has shaped our understanding of heart disease. He argues that the demonization of cholesterol as the primary culprit in cardiovascular issues oversimplifies a complex set of factors that contribute to heart health. It is well known that the Ancel Keys published selective data to start the world on a route towards high carb, low fat and things snowballed from there. One of the strengths of the book is its accessibility to the general reader. Dr. Kendrick avoids overly technical language, making it easie...

  This is a video breakdown of my recent 10k race. 

This one is not so much about complete carnivore but about why we should eat meat and why we should prioritise it. After all, if hundreds of thousands of years of evolution drove us to walk upright, sweat, shed fur for hair, springy legs and feet and a digestive system optimised to process fat. So humans were born / evolved to run but we did so in order to hunt animals to give us the fat we needed to thrive. Lets have a look at some of the literature, note that these were just a few of the many articles I came across and several of these are themselves reviews that reference many articles to support these hypothesis. At this point it is a fact that humans evolved the way they did because of / for their meat based diet. Evolution works on such grand timescales that we are essentially the same beings as we were 10,000 years ago and as such are still a species that is has been moulded through time to live and thrive off of meat. It is the drive to hunt that meat that has led to use be...