[wonnor]

It's great that you found a diet that worked for you, but it's strange to say that the article is remiss to not include your specific diet - unless you also think it should include every diet. For any given diet, you can find people whom it helped tremendously, and the carnivore diet is no different. There's also very little evidence for its effectiveness (which is not to say it's not effective, just that it's not particularly well-studied). Personally, I could eat enough meat daily to get very fat if I wasn't counting my calories. When my compliance is struggling, I find high-fiber diets to be the most effective in curbing hunger.

[hombre_fatal]

Agreed. Besides, modern meat is also hyper palatable since it’s engineered to have increasingly high fat content. Also seems weird to talk about what our ancestors ate while buying saran wrapped meat from the market as if you’re going caveman mode. Or that it will give you some magical defense against the explosion of available calories in the modern food economy.

Most social media dietary discourse focuses on magic-trick memes instead of the basic principles. Twitter and HN acts like it’s the hamburger bun and some pasta alfredo making us fat and not the 4000 calories we eat per day altogether. How about eat less, move more, avoid calorie dense foods.

For example, eating out is 1000+ calories. Unless you curb one of your other three meals and don't snack, you're going over your 2300 calorie (or whatever) budget right there.