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There's way more to this story as people are pointing out.

I talk about a lot of this stuff with nutrition experts on my podcast http://peak-human.com and am getting the author of this article on soon.

I'm making the film http://FoodLies.org and have interviewed a lot of top researchers, doctors, and though leaders of all aspects of nutrition and even the environmental impact of eating different foods. I picked the most important topics and people and got them to do an audio interview with me as well. I modeled it after the awesome "How to Start a Startup" class with Sam Altman.

If anyone is trying to lose weight and wants to try this simple and cheap diet (or similar) I would love to document it for the film. Contact me at hi@foodlies.org

google "vegetarian LCHF"

I was being coy. I've read Nina's book and heavily researched all of this. I'm glad you and other people know about this stuff. Let's make this common knowledge!

I'm not a fan of a vegetarian diet because it leaves out the most nutrient dense foods.

I haven't done research into it specifically, but I would avoid carbs and sugar (and all processed foods), and eat a lot of avocado and protein from non-carby foods (beans and quinoa are ok, but still have a lot of carbohydrate).

Dietary cholesterol is actually not bad - check out this article for a good overview https://chriskresser.com/the-diet-heart-myth-cholesterol-and...

Have been researching this for a long time. It was hard for me to believe at first, but the science is sound.

This can all be bought at Costco with the exception of Sunflower seeds on Amazon.

http://nutritiondata.self.com uses the USDA database.

I made a diet with only 5 foods (plus butter) that is ideal for human health and weight loss (posted on this thread).

The diet I created and posted here is only $2,000 per year and includes fresh, nutritious foods that don't detract from your health like most of those foods loaded with carbohydrate and sugar would in your example.

Obviously they aren't comparable, I just think it's cool you could live in perfect health for a year for $2,000

Very cool. I just did a similar exercise also based on a lot of research (posted it on this thread). Interested in your thoughts.

I just did my own version of this diet with a nutrient-dense low-carb approach.

Ground beef: $3.50/lb = $2.19/day

Sardines: $9.99 for 6 - 4.375 oz = $1.67/can = $1.67/day

Fresh spinach: $3.99/2.5 lb (.35 cents/g) = $.84/day

Eggs: $7.99/ 5 dozen (13.3 cents/egg) = $.40/day

Sunflower seeds: $2.49/lb = $.36/day

Butter: $9.99 for 4lbs = $2.50/lb = $.12 cents/day

Total cost: $5.58/day

This is 1800 calories and is 65% fat, 30% protein, and 5% carbohydrate. I used http://nutritiondata.self.com to formulate it and it meets or (far) exceeds every vitamin and mineral requirement except for only 50% DV of Thiamin (not worried about this).

I basically do a version of this but with more expensive boneless short rib (very marbled and delicious) and am in perfect shape (you can find evidence here if you scroll down a bit https://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg )

Spreading this menu over 2 meals (one at noon and one at 7:30pm) will give you a nice intermittent fast. It will also train your body to burn fat instead of sugar. You will be very full off of only 1800 calories and should lose a lot of weight.

Disclaimer: I'm not dispensing nutritional advice as I am not a doctor or dietician. I've just researched this stuff for years and am making the documentary http://foodlies.org

I have a friend who is somewhat of a "evolution denier" (he's not religious and actually very intelligent). I was thinking about this from his perspective and would like someone else perspective.

"On human terms, the LTEE generations span the equivalent of well more than a million years of human evolution."

Haven't we evolved a lot more in 68,000 generations than the bacteria have? Or put another way, all the bacteria has done in this time period is go from consuming glucose to citrate, nothing else in its shape, structure, etc. So how did humans and other creatures evolve so much over 68,000 generations?

I am 100% on board with evolution, I'm just curious about this. This is only 6-7 times more generations than when humans split from chimps (quick google search said 6-7 million years ago).

Is it because we have way more interaction with our environment and these bacteria are just in a little petri dish? Sounds likely.

Has anyone ever heard of people questioning evolution? I think he was saying something about how impossible it would be to have every single thing we see in nature be pre-written in DNA - it has just been all expressed in genes over the millennia through natural selection.

I 100% agree we need to change our factory farming practices...

However, What the Health was riddled with lies, bad science, and misinformation.

https://www.dietdoctor.com/health-review-health-claims-backe...

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/7/25/16018658/wh...

Even a vegan dietitian admits it is full of misinformation and bad science and calls for an end to this practice https://www.vegan.com/posts/vegan-dietitian-review-what-the-...

Not correct - this is (very successful) vegan propaganda. Look into it more.

I interviewed Dr. Shawn Baker MD who has done this for a year now. As carb intake decreases the need for vitamin C decreases. He takes no supplements and is in perfect health.

The real problem is carbs and sugar. I don't believe anyone needs to take it the extreme of going all meat - just cut down/out carbs and sugar and you will have lifelong health.

There's no reason to ever go back to eating carbs, all they do is damage.

There actually isn't a ton of hormones and antibiotics in grocery store meat, it's mostly vegan propaganda I believed in until last week when I actually researched it. Soy products have 1000 times the hormones than any piece of meat.

Shawn Baker! I interviewed him for my film. I'm not a fan of this diet, but strongly believe in not eating carbs and sugar.

I feel best when I eat red meat and green vegetables.

I agree. All meat is too extreme... What makes low carb diets great is that they exclude grains and sugar which are the real problem.

Going to the extreme and eating only meat is a bit bonkers.

The main problem with our diet and what causes the most disease and death are carbs and sugar.

Take a look at this regarding nutrients and plants http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2014/04/the-perfect-five-a-day/

I have been researching all sides of this for 6 months now for a doc http://foodlies.org so I'm very familiar with a ll the arguments and studies on both sides.

These diets have been around for millions of years. I try to explain some of this on my site:

google "food lies film"

Not true: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4155060/

I'm making a documentary about all of this stuff mentioned in the comments. Would like feedback:

http://FoodLies.org

or google "food lies film"

This is the truth. There's a lot more to this - so much so that I decided to make a documentary about it. I don't mean to promote it (there is nothing to promote yet, for now it's just a website), but here it is if anyone is interested http://FoodLies.org

I have one of these thought leader doctors on board. Would love any feedback or help from the community to get this made.

Agree with everything here. For us non-technical people, it's just a matter of skipping over the programming stuff. You just have a blindness for these articles - after a bit of practice they just disappear and all the other gems shine through.

This seems suspect. This article seems to poke some holes: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-08/no-big-da...

Misleading headline

Although he said "at the end of the day" every other sentence, and not all of his plans were feasible, it was interesting to hear him on the Joe Rogan podcast.

I don't think it's possible for the average person to fast in any of the ways suggested here. I think the best thing to do is have a light dinner without carbs and a healthy breakfast. If you do this daily it will be like a daily intermittent fast as you can have a large lunch to indulge yourself. This way you can actually stick to it. I have been doing this for years and am very fit. I made a video showing what I ate for lunch each day while losing weight to prove it works https://youtu.be/v0hYofwTIiw

whats twitter?

The author forgot to mention how horrible the new app icon is.

Weird that he titled it "my life saving drug" and went on to say it really didn't do much for him, much less get anywhere near saving his life...