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Gary
Lv 6
Gary asked in HealthDiet & Fitness · 11 months ago

What would you recommend as healthy meats for someone to try a diet of only meat and potatoes?

I thought of the idea to try a diet for 30 days of only eating eat and potatoes after my last physical. The basic rules are:

Any meat goes so long as it is purchased and/or caught as is (more or less butcher quality)

Eggs do not count as meat, so no eggs, unfortunately

Any potatoes, grown or bought

No other food products (including condiments) except for salt and pepper

I do not plan to alter my fitness levels or anything else so I can Scientifically judge how the change would affect me

I am also not averse to having nutrient supplements if needed

Update:

My current diet is balanced and I make sure to be active every day. This diet idea is to see what would happen and is by no means to be long-term

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  • Anonymous
    11 months ago

    Beef, pork, chicken. Sounds like a delicious diet to me!

  • 11 months ago

    If you're going to stick to a lot of meat, then eat grass fed/grass finished meat as often as possible. It's more nutritious than grain fed.

  • 11 months ago

    I would think lamb is the healthiest meat, though it's not cost-effective and it's hard to find.

    Leave the skins on the potatoes. That's where a lot of the nutrients are.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    11 months ago

    A healthy diet means a well balanced diet that provides you with the proper amounts of protein, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, complex carbohydrates, and essential fats.

    A meat and potatoes only diet is no where near a healthy diet. While protein and carbs are essential nutrients, your body needs more than that to keep you healthy. For one thing, too much protein and carbs is just as bad as not enough protein or carbs.

    The most common misconception people have is thinking that if X amounts of something is good, then much more of it must be better which is not true. Too much of anything, even that which is healthy, is unhealthy. Meaning your goal is about balance and not going into the extremes.

    As for supplements, they cannot replace a well-balanced meal for many reasons. First, not all supplements are created equal. Just because a supplement contains a nutrient, it does NOT mean your body can absorb it. For example calcium, a piece of chalk is nearly 60% calcium, but if you ate one you will not even get 0.5% of the calcium content. But if you ate just 3/4 cups of cottage cheese, you get around 100 mg of calcium. You take supplements as an insurance to cover your bases, not as the primary source of your nutrition.

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  • Andy C
    Lv 7
    11 months ago

    That diet will kill you. Not nearly as fast as one containing regular sugars.

    Healthy meats are truly ANY that are not corn-fed, which most US animal products are.

    Instead, go for grass-fed or wheat fed. Pasture fed is best.

    Eat only wild caught seafood unless the farmed animals are not corn-fed, like farmed shrimp.

    Seafood, poultry, eggs, lamb and grass-fed beef are all high in omega 3 fatty acids, which reduce inflammation, blood triglycerides and improve neural function. All are also listed highest to high in the amino acid tryptophan, which is the building block of the brain's serotonin.

    Corn-fed animal products are high in branched chain amino acids, and like fructose and alcohol, regular use spells liver dysfunction that causes obesity, diabetes II and most heart disease along with a laundry list of other crap.

    Including acne and IBS.

    Source(s): You asked. This isn't opinion. Biochemistry. "Fat Chance..." by Dr. Robert Lustig M.D.
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