How do I start becoming a meat-a-tarian?

Question

Only eat meat, No veggies....Will I be getting the right amount of nutreints to grow?

Answer 1

Please, please, please do this.  In fact, eat bacon five times a day.  Then you will be on this earth a very short time.  Avoid organic too.  Please, get on this immediately.

Answer 2

damnyankeega, I don't know why you even referenced the Paleolithic Diet in your answer.  The Paleo diet has NOTHING to do with eating an all-meat diet.  In fact, the Paleo diet includes eating a lot of plant foods such as fruits and vegetables, just not the ones that people inevitably like to eat the most - grains, beans, and potatoes.

And as far as the Inuit go, you said they've been doing it (eating an all-meat diet) successfully for thousands of years... indeed, precisely - thousands of years that their bodies have had to adapt to this kind of diet.  Let's not also forget that their bodies are adapted to living in conditions that you and I would find intolerable for any substantial length of time.  Their bodies are compact, with evenly distributed fat to help maintain body temperature.  They have a faster metabolism and a modified circulatory system to aid in keeping them warm.  They work very hard for their food - work hard in sub-freezing temperatures.  Their bodies burn off most of the calories they take in, and it stores the rest as fat in useful places.  Getting their vitamin C?  That's because, as you said, they eat raw or minimally cooked meat - cooking meat destroys the vitamin C.  So while the Inuit have survived on an almost all-meat diet for thousands of years, that doesn't mean the average, mild-climate, mostly-sedentary, meat-cooking human being can.  So using the Inuit as an example to support being able to eat an all-meat diet is irrelevant to whether Jape can or not.

Finally to Jape, no, you cannot get all your necessary nutrients from an all-meat diet.  Like the others have said, you may be able to get some of what you need from supplements, but supplements aren't a complete replacement for "the real thing".  You also would not be getting any fiber, which could not only lead to constipation, but could potentially contribute to other problems such as kidney stones, gallstones, atherosclerosis, heart disease, strokes, etc.

On a personal note, just so you know I'm not some veggie freak, I hate almost all vegetables... I always have and probably always will.  I wish I liked them, but I just don't.  I wish I could happily dig into a big, colorful salad the way other people do, but I just can't.  I may as well be eating sticks out of the yard.  Most veggies taste disgusting (to me) and I also hate their texture.  There are only a few I find tolerable.  However, I make sure to not only take supplements, but to get scads of fiber from other sources and I maintain good health.  If you like vegetables, then by all means, eat them by the bushel, but if you don't, then you must pay close attention to getting what you're missing from them.

Answer 3

I wouldn't advise that. And no, you can't get all of your nutrients from meat. Fiber, for example, comes exclusively from plants. The same is true of many vitamins. You just can't get them without eating plants. I suppose if you took supplements you could pull it off, but you'd be pretty sick (and wouldn't be strictly meatatarian, as there are no animal sources of some of those nutrients).

Answer 4

why not go all the way and be a meatan. eat only raw meat; if it catches on y!a would have to open up a m&m category.

Answer 5

Absolutely not!! You will lack alot of things, not to mention your digestive system will suffer from excess protein that is found in meat!

Answer 6

no, there is no healthy way to approach that.

Pan Metron Ariston. everything in moderation. (Greek)

look it up.

Answer 7

That's not healthy at all. I would recommend you eat a balanced diet (including fruits and vegetables).

There's a difference between 'survive' and 'thrive'. If you try to live on meat alone you will deprive your body of essential nutrients.

[edit] Julia S is right. Meat lacks fibre which is another reason why plant foods are important. If constipation is your thing, go for it!

Answer 8

No :) human needs veggies.