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No one eats enough protein. It keeps you sated, and also helps retain and grow muscle if you exercise. For a country everyone calls fat, everyone SHOULD be having more of it.
The US has been obsessed with protein for at least 15 years, longer though.
Baby boomers have long been convinced they are one bowl of pasta away from protein starvation. But every other person elsewise now too.
Same reason they're obsessed with carnivore diet. It's about identity projection, macho manosphere bullshit, spun up by a very high amount of money injected by corporate propaganda.
Edit: For disclosure, it's worth noting that both users Jet and Xep below (who happen to have replied to my comment within minutes of each other, raising suspicion or brigading or just being the same user) are heavy moderators of Carnivore diet communities. So like their diet, take with a massive grain of of salt arguments made from bias-confirming zealotry versus objective evidence.
I'm obsessed with the carnivore diet because it works, you can evaluate its effectiveness in just a few days/weeks - it's the single simplest diet for maintaining health. It's biggest super power isn't meat, its removal of all the variables that could be hurting you - It's an amazing elimination diet tool.
And, its quite inexpensive, i'm saving so much money. I can't see how a corporation makes money from promoting zero carb, the strict carnivores don't each much, they don't spend much, and they like to buy locally produced meat anyway... they are very bad customers.
Just to give an example to make a point, smoking cigarettes achieve similar results: more energy, lower weight, better cognition in the short term. Doesn't mean it's better for you!
I can give you diet instructions proven to do the same not only in the short term but the long term as well. Most carnivore benefits share some benefits with many other scientifically proven better diets, but the benefits subside drastically after mere months to a year typically.
The nutritional deficits and anti-nutrients associated culminate to exacerbate health issues in the longterm.
There is no scientific peer reviewed consensus support for carnivore diet. If you need an elimination diet there are also better diet. If it's temporary and works for you to figure out sensitivities, just exercise caution!
You have done very definite beliefs there
I can give you diet instructions proven to do the same not only in the short term but the long term as well. Most carnivore benefits share some benefits with many other scientifically proven better diets, but the benefits subside drastically after mere months to a year typically.
I doubt you can find better. I've been in online zero carb communities for long enough to have heard everything people have said this diet mitigates. I have never heard such a list for low carb, for example, nor from low fat or mediterranean.
The moderator of /r/zerocarb had been doing the diet for about 7 years when I was there regularly. I have been eating only meat for three years and am not feeling any ill effects.
The nutritional deficits and anti-nutrients associated culminate to exacerbate health issues in the longterm.
Deficits? What nutrient isn't found in beef? Cows are made of the same stuff as us. Anti nutrients? That's a thing plants do - lock up nutrients to make them hard to extract; packaging them with anti nutrients to remove the benefit of eating them. Animals don't engage in chemical warfare against the things that eat them, cows use horns and hooves. Plants use chemicals. Nothing wants to be eaten.
other scientifically proven better diets
Great, where is the rct data?
the benefits subside drastically after mere months to a year typically.
This doesn't match the literature i have read at all, as long as the fat metabolism is maintained so are the benefits.
The nutritional deficits and anti-nutrients associated culminate to exacerbate health issues in the longterm.
There are no demonstrated deficits, and what anti-nutrients are you referring to? The only anti-nutrients i'm aware of are in plant foods.
no scientific peer reviewed consensus support for carnivore diet.
That isn't saying much, there are no RCTs for any diet. Keto is the diet with the most publication papers on it
If it's temporary and works for you to figure out sensitivities, just exercise caution!
Why does it need to be temporary? I'm cautious, what should i be looking for?
These health fads come in cycles. Once everyone realizes the last fad didn't do everything it claimed, a new fad must replace it.
ozempic, and it's global.
in my country there is a "shortage" of protein and the cost of protein powders has almost doubled. i'm not sure there actually is a shortage, there are bulk supplement shops fucking everywhere and countless online retailers. the market will bear what people are willing to pay. more gouging in tough times.
Muscle loss
We're idiots