FROM THE EDITOR
COVER: GRACE RUSSELL THIS PAGE: BBC, GETTY IMAGES X2, DANIEL BRIGHT
If you want to lose weight, don’t look at social media. It is a bin fire of hot takes, dude bros and con artists. The latest diet craze pulling in the clicks is the carnivore diet. Supposedly, if you want to sort out your mood, energy and get pumped, you just need to cram as much minced meat, bone stock and steak into your pie hole as you can stomach.
Not a single fruit, vegetable, legume, nut, grain or seed should pass your lips, depriving you of all the fibre, antioxidants, vitamins and other nutrients (and joy!) they provide. Clearly, this is a terrible idea for your health, not to mention your gut, and indeed we’ve already written pieces debunking it. But I bring it up because the carnivore diet is a sign of our times; it’s a measure of how poisoned the world of dieting has become.