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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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