Now that's a reversal!

 

It seems Bear Grylls, well-known outdoorsman and adventurer, has had a change of heart - and diet.

Bear Grylls has said he is “embarrassed” by his past support of veganism, and regrets writing a green cookbook in which he criticised meat eaters.

The adventurer, whose diet is now mostly composed of red meat and organs, has claimed he was wrong to think that eating a plant-based diet was good for the environment and his health.

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The television star published a cookbook in 2015 called Fuel for Life, which promoted achieving “maximum health with amazing dairy, wheat and sugar-free recipes”.

He wrote in the book: "To satisfy our insatiable appetite for meat we have developed very unnatural ways of breeding, keeping and killing animals. This far exceeds our nutritional needs for the health of myself and my family."

But the father-of-three has made quite the U-turn since then, and now completely avoids vegetables as part of his “ancestral way of living”.

“For a long time, I’d been eating so many vegetables thinking it was doing me good, but just never felt like it had given me any good nutrients compared to the nutrient density I get from basically blood or bone marrow – red meat,” he said.

“I’ve tried to listen to my body more, tried to listen to nature, and I don’t miss vegetables at all. I don’t go near them and I’ve never felt stronger, my skin’s never been better, and my gut’s never been better.”

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“I’ve found a counterculture way of living, of embracing red meat and organs – natural food just like our millennia of ancestors would have eaten for hundreds of thousands of years.

“And out of all the different things I do for my health, I think that’s probably been the biggest game-changer, in the sense of improving my vitality, wellbeing, strength, skin and gut.”

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“And I find now I’m always full when I’m eating so much meat and eggs and butter and fruit and honey – I’m never hungry. I go out and I’ll order three burgers and get rid of all the buns and the fries and just have the burgers. I don’t crave junk food,” he said.

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I'm nowhere near as active or adventurous as Bear Grylls, but I can confirm that since I switched to a carnivore diet, my health has definitely improved.  Of course, on my present fasting diet I'm not eating solid food at all for five days of the week - only on weekends - but in general, the more "meaty" my diet, the better I feel for it.  When this prolonged diet is finally over, I intend to follow a carnivore diet as far as possible.  (Of course, today that's an expensive proposition, given the price of meat.  I wonder what the FDA, the CDC and Texas' Animal Health Commission would say if I imported cane rats from Africa and farmed them locally?  They're very easy to raise, and make very good eating!)

I wish more fast food places would offer the option of their regular burgers, etc. minus the buns.  The only one I'm aware of is Carls Jr., which offers lettuce wraps instead of buns with their burgers if you ask for them.  If anyone knows other chains offering that sort of option, please let us know in Comments.

Peter