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Yesterday I was told I should take the word radical out of my profile because I sometimes talk about non-carnivore solutions to obesity and other health problems. I have a lot to say about this subject, but I'll try to be brief: 1/ https://twitter.com/richcollins/status/1205543146949447680
While Carnivore has been excellent for me in terms of not only health effects, but in providing unparalleled satiety and a satisfaction with my food I never would have expected given my foodie history and love of vegetables, and while I really don't miss anything, 2/
I would never wish on anyone the lack of choice I have. I'm a hedonist by nature, and I think the more ways you have of obtaining pleasure, the better. If you feel great eating plants, eating grains, eating high carb, power to you. 3/
When I started this account and made that profile in 2014, it was because I was self conscious talking about diet on my regular Twitter account to my mostly computer science friends. So I made a new account to spare them, making it clear by my handle what the account was for. 4/
But understand, "carnivore" wasn't really a thing then. "ZC" existed, but was very marginal. These days the movement has gotten so crazy that I'm sometimes embarrassed of my handle, because what was once unheard of is now associated with harrassment, illogic, and dogmatism. 5/
Look, I think the Carnivore diet is amazing. Few understand that it's unpredictably different from low carb. I want people to know about it because it can be life changing and seems safe. I'm endlessly fascinated with trying to understand why it does what it does. 6/
In 2014 I had been eating this way five years already. And unlike today when you can read about Carnivore on Fox News, it was radical! But just because I eat and advocate for a radical diet doesn't mean I'm going to shun other ideas or tell other people what they should do. 7/
So yeah, if you can eat croissants and regain metabolic health, that's not only fascinating and worthy of study, but it's fun. And fun is good! 8/
Also your food choices are not for me to judge, even if I think it's bad for your health. 9/
I'd be surprised if there were *generally* a better way to eat for health than Carnivore (I've seen some not thrive without at least modifications), given everything I've seen over the last decade, but 10/
I'm not going to stop looking for other ways of understanding that may make carnivore turn out to be just a specific way of achieving something more general or a combination of effects. So yeah, how's that for "radical carnivore"? Not being dogmatic about it. 11/
Addendum in case it wasn't clear: the quote at the top is something I'm agreeing with and elaborating on, not the one who told me to change my profile. /12
