Can we survive by eating only meat, butter and cheese? An American forty -year -old tried the experience. For eight months, he followed a exclusively carnivorous regimeconvinced that he improved his health. Result: his body ended up betraying it. Taken strange skin pain and symptoms, he went to the emergency room. Its cholesterol level was five times higher than normal.
Doctors did not come back. THE plants of his feet, elbows and palms of hands were covered with yellow nodules. After analyzes, the diagnosis falls: Generalized xanthelasmaa physical manifestation of a massive excess of lipids in the blood.
He ate up to 4 kg of cheese per week
The patient said he consumed, every week, between 6 and 9 pounds of cheese (or until 4 kg), of the butter sticksAnd Fat integrated into its homemade hamburgers. No fruit, no vegetable, no cereal. Just meat, fat, cheese.
His goal? Losing weight, boosting your energy, and “cleaning your body” as some followers of this diet say. Besides, he said he had noted a Best physical and mental tonewith a significant weight loss.
But the blood exam is final: cholesterol greater than 1000 mg/dlwhile normal values are between 210 and 300 mg/dl. The blood was literally saturated with fat.
When fat literally comes out through the skin
In medicine, this phenomenon is called xanthelasma. These are fatty deposits who “accumulate under the skin. Usually we observe them around the eyes. But in this man, the deposits appeared in unusual areasproof of an extreme lipid imbalance.
Specialists in the Cardiology Department of Florida and Texas at the origin of the case point out that these lipid excesses can “ooze” through the vessels, up to accumulating in the form of visible plates on the body.
An extreme regime that experts advise against
Despite the short -term benefits, the American health authorities (CDC) strongly advise against this type of ultra-restrictive diet. THE carnivorous regimevery fashionable in certain American influencers, eliminates whole groups of essential food: fibers, antioxidants, water -soluble vitamins …
Doctors recall that a balanced diet must include:
- Various proteins;
- Fruits and vegetables;
- Good quality fats;
- Complex carbohydrates and dietary fiber.
Even if it is not forbidden to consume butter or cheese in moderation, An excess daily over several months inevitably ends up unbalanced the organism. This case is the very concrete demonstration.