02 | Cooked: All-meat eaters say they feel great - but why?

FEB 5, 2025-1 MIN
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02 | Cooked: All-meat eaters say they feel great - but why?

FEB 5, 2025-1 MIN

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<p>Diets like carnivore have been popping up all over the place. People who go carnivore aim to eat nothing but a select few animal products, like meat and eggs.</p><p>So why are some people turning to an all-meat diet? And why do they say they feel good doing so?</p><p>On this episode of Cooked, we sift through some of the counterintuitive findings around carnivore — the scientific pitfalls you need to be aware of when reading the research — and the health effects in the short and long term.</p><p>Guests:</p><p>Mick and JennyNew South Wales, Australia</p><p>Dr Jacob MeyAssistant Professor and Registered Dietitian, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana</p><p>Dr Richie KirwanLecturer, Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, Liverpool John Moores University</p><p>Dr Janet ChrzanNutritional anthropologist, University of PennsylvaniaAuthor, Anxious Eaters: Why We Fall For Fad Diets</p><p>Credits:</p><ul><li>Presenter: Dr Emma Beckett</li><li>Producer: Carl Smith</li><li>Senior Producer: James Bullen</li><li>Sound Engineer: Angie Grant</li></ul><p>This story was made on the lands of the Gadigal, Wurundjeri, Jagera and Turrbal peoples.</p><p>More information:</p><p><a href="https://cdn.nutrition.org/article/S2475-2991(22)10608-6/fulltext">Behavioral Characteristics and Self-Reported Health Status Among 2029 Adults Consuming a "Carnivore Diet" - Current Developments in Nutrition, 2021</a>.</p><p><a href="https://cdn.nutrition.org/article/S2475-2991(22)00066-X/fulltext">Limitations of Self-Reported Health Status and Metabolic Markers Among Adults Consuming a “Carnivore Diet” - Current Developments in Nutrition, 2022</a>.</p><p><a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8084888/">Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Mortality: Results from Two Prospective Cohort Studies of US Men and Women and a Meta-Analysis of 26 Cohort Studies - Circulation, 2021.</a></p><p><a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10102997/">Long-Term Consumption of 10 Food Groups and Cardiovascular Mortality: A Systematic Review and Dose Response Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies - Advances in Nutrition, 2022.</a></p><p><a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/365/bmj.l2110.long">Association of changes in red meat consumption with total and cause specific mortality among US women and men: two prospective cohort studies - BMJ, 2019.</a></p><p><a href="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/anxious-eaters/9780231192446">Anxious Eaters: Why We Fall For Fad Diets - Columbia University Press, 2022</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.health.harvard.edu/nutrition/what-is-the-carnivore-diet">What is the carnivore diet? - Harvard Health Publishing, 2024</a>.</p>