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Salon
Salon
Lifestyle
Mary Elizabeth Williams

How unhealthy is the "carnivore diet"?

The scales of trends always seem to seek balance. As more Americans than ever are leaning their diets in a more plant-based direction, inevitably, so the carnivore diet rises.

A recent feature in Discover explored the pros and cons of existing solely on animal products — and raised the eternal questions around the wisdom of intensely restrictive diets. For everyone who's grown up with — and struggled with — the tyranny of food pyramid and the notion that abundant, expensive variety is the key to good health, could whittling your grocery list way down instead be a better option?

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