Much ado has been made by the anti-meat crowd that the keto/carnivore way of eating is not sustainable long term. Their reasoning, if it can be called that, essentially boils down to the assertion that no diet can succeed long term without plants, specifically grains, vegetables, and fruit. The embarrassing problem comes when they are asked to specifically name which particular carbohydrates are absolutely necessary for good health. Much hemming and hawing ensues, sometimes ending up in near brain lockup when no such carb can be named. (I have actually witnessed this phenom.)
They lock up because they are reflexively inclined (brainwashed) to honor the dubious concept of the "balanced" diet. Why a diet should be balanced is never considered, only the blind belief that it should be. It just must be true. It has to be right. Because if it isn't then their entire plant based mental edifice comes crumbling down. Eat all the colors I hear them cry. Colors are, somehow, good. Why? Phytonutrients, they say reverently. You will die of a heart attack if you don't eat a balanced diet, they confidently state. High cholesterol will clog your arteries, they adamantly insist. Climate change, meat is murder, blah blah blah.
Not one word of any of that is true. Not. One. Word. The reasons for that are many and varied, but too numerous to go into here. I have been on the carnivore way of eating for five years, and have been researching every conceivable aspect of it for just as long, so my personal experience is that not only is it sustainable in the long run, it is essential if by the long run you mean the rest of your life, which is very likely to be much longer, and much healthier, in every respect, than it otherwise would be.
What prompted this post is an interview I saw with an eighty-two year-old woman Canadian rancher. She has been carnivore for sixty-five years. She looks to be about sixty, at the most. And she is as healthy as the horses and cattle she regeneratively raises. No heart disease, no arthritis, no GI problems, no cognitive decline, etc. etc. She wears no glasses, has a full head of hair, and even her voice is that of a woman far younger than her calendar years. She is a walking riding, and probably roping, highly active senior who sneers at the concept of dotage.
There are now hundreds of thousands of people on this and other continents who are experiencing the near miraculous healing power of ultra low-carb eating. Anecdotes are flooding into social media of success with this way of eating. To be sure they are "only" anecdotes, but pile enough anecdotes up and they morph into data. Extremely encouraging data.
