It's a no-carb life: How healthy is the trendy carnivore diet?

Linda Carstensen, 24.02.2025

Raw steaks for lunch, or even a whole stick of butter. No vegetables, no fruit, no bread – only meat, fish, eggs and dairy. Adherents of the carnivore diet swear by animal products as their sole source of sustenance. But what's the science behind it? Is meat-only a revolutionary health trend or a dangerous experiment?

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The latest diet craze goes all in on animal products: Meat, fish, eggs and dairy. No vegetables, no fruit, no carbs. What sounds like an extreme form of low-carb eating is praised by adherents of the carnivore diet as the ultimate path to better health and well-being, convinced that animal products contain all the nutrients a body needs. But is that really so? The scientific consensus is that a balanced diet with plenty of fruit and vegetables is the healthiest. Falstaff did some investigating.

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