[HN Gopher] Florida man eats diet of butter, cheese, beef; chole...
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       Florida man eats diet of butter, cheese, beef; cholesterol oozes
       from his body
        
       Author : nxobject
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2025-01-22 22:08 UTC (53 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | qup wrote:
       | That's a superpower, I'm just not sure it's a useful one.
        
         | Uptrenda wrote:
         | I seriously wonder how his hospital admission went. "Help me
         | nurse... I think I'm turning into butter..."
        
       | femiagbabiaka wrote:
       | He's got cheese.. body.
        
       | dismalaf wrote:
       | People always go on these extreme diets... From raw veganism to
       | stuff like this.
       | 
       | What's wrong with just eating a bit of meat, fish, vegetables,
       | carbs and fats? Just nice, real food in moderate amounts...
        
         | oconnore wrote:
         | > What's wrong with just eating a bit
         | 
         | For one thing you won't get many likes, subscribes, retweets,
         | or what have you.
        
         | tobr wrote:
         | The case is being studied and reported because it's unusual.
         | I'm not so sure that "people always" is the right take here.
        
         | dylan604 wrote:
         | My favorite extreme eating are the people that take the silver
         | to the point of changing the color of their skin and act as if
         | everything is fine.
        
         | ender341341 wrote:
         | While this is a particularly extreme example but I think most
         | fad diets work because being so different from a normal diet
         | people have to actually stop and think about what they're
         | eating and make some level of plan around it which is easier to
         | skip if you're just trying moderation where it's easier to grab
         | something anywhere.
        
         | NotGMan wrote:
         | Because when your gut/body/metabolsim breaks this "balanced
         | diet" approach doesn't work.
         | 
         | People like that need to into all the way into eg no fiber, no
         | carbs or they won't heal.
        
       | bilbo0s wrote:
       | A bit off topic, but I thought this would be kind of a comedic
       | fiction article a-la-Onion. I thought, "Oh here they go, unjustly
       | skewering people from Florida again."
       | 
       | Then I read the article.
       | 
       | Sigh.
       | 
       | I've tried to agitate against the "Florida Man..." and "Florida
       | Woman..." stereotype, but it's just gotten to a point.. I guess I
       | don't know what to say anymore?
        
         | h0l0cube wrote:
         | Basically Poe's law but not in the usual attribution
         | 
         | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
        
         | ge96 wrote:
         | Ohio as well and another one
        
       | p_ing wrote:
       | The Kraft Mac&Cheese powder sauce comes from his hands!
        
       | _elf wrote:
       | This gentleman is turning himself into wagyu.
        
         | ge96 wrote:
         | delicious on toast
        
       | m0llusk wrote:
       | It's peculiar that so many think the carnivore diet is prime cuts
       | of meat with butter and cheese. All of those are prime products
       | with historically limited availability. Much of the diet would be
       | tendons, tripe, organ meats and other such cooked together with
       | vegetables for essential potassium. What we know of traditional
       | carnivore diets is radically unlike what most nowadays think of
       | which is based on a highly productive industrialized farming
       | infrastructure that was not available for most of human history.
        
         | Profan wrote:
         | Eating reams of butter and cheese is a hell of a lot easier to
         | sell than "hey you wanna go on this organ meat diet?" even if
         | that's probably a lot more technically accurate
        
         | siliconc0w wrote:
         | And what muscle meat you'd get would likely be pretty lean -
         | not a lot of nice USDA prime ribeyes in nature.
        
         | setgree wrote:
         | That, and probably a great deal of what we'd consider rotten
         | meat:
         | 
         | https://www.sciencenews.org/article/meat-rotten-putrid-paleo...
         | 
         | But I suppose that part of the paleo diet doesn't have mass
         | appeal
        
         | mvdtnz wrote:
         | Do a Google image search for Carnivore Diet. It's not at all
         | "peculiar that so many think the carnivore diet is prime cuts
         | of meat with butter and cheese" - this is exactly how it is
         | marketed.
        
       | hiyer wrote:
       | Reminded me of this Junji Ito story -
       | https://junjiitomanga.fandom.com/wiki/Glyceride
        
       | mjamil wrote:
       | Goodhart's Law in action. Targeting weight loss at the expense of
       | overall health is a surefire way of guaranteeing early mortality.
        
       | faithdefender wrote:
       | I went on the Atkins diet in 2023 and my cholesterol levels
       | plummeted. clear mind, like never before. I didn't buy my butter,
       | hamburger or cheese from Walmart, Kroger or target Why Would I!?!
       | actually I stayed away from cheese and processed hamburger. just
       | steak eggs and bacon, and my apatite went away for anything toxic
       | like processed evertyhing. all the weight came off and no need
       | for Ozempic, so no Ozempic permanent side effects!
       | 
       | By the way - Beth Mole is a radical: The impact of climate change
       | on bumblebee populations, noting that bumblebees are disappearing
       | from their southernmost habitats due to global warming..
       | https://www.snexplores.org/author/beth-mole Environmental issues
       | such as recycled water usage in the context of climate change
       | https://www.sciencenews.org/author/beth-mole/page/6
       | https://essic.umd.edu/climate-change-weekly-roundup-080514/
        
         | mvdtnz wrote:
         | Are you still on this diet?
        
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