What do you consider central to a good diet? Personally, I avoid sugar and processed foods. I eat meat or fish every day but at the same time try to keep my cholesterol below 240-250 which isn't too difficult. But on a paleo diet it easily goes above 300.
So after at least 20 years straight of non stop researching on the subject, and still continue to research daily, it’s extremely obv that the healthiest diet is a carnivore diet, or at least a carnivore based diet, with added carbs, in the forms of fruits and raw honey. And I’ve done equally as much research on both sides of the coin. I’ve looked into a vegetarian/ vegan diet almost as much as I have carnivore. It’s just now that I know for a 100% fact that a carnivore/ carnivore based diet is the healthiest diet we can eat, I don’t really feel the need to continue researching diets that I know aren’t optimal for us.
Avoiding processed foods should always be the #1 goal with any diet. That’s where ur going to see the most benefits, regardless of the type of diet u decide to eat. And sugar is such an ambiguous term at this point. But yes, avoiding added sugar in food is obv the way to go
Meat is another ambiguous term. All meat is not created equal. When I speak, I speak about what a person eats on a regular basis. What we eat daily/ regularly, and what we eat on occasion, can be two different things, and u can still have pretty optimal health, overall. We’re not robots lol. I say that because u said u consume meat and fish. Fish right away is not something u want to consume regularly. And if it’s the kind of fish that most people are eating, u really don’t want to consume it at all. Maybe on occasion if ur really craving it. But fish are a monogastric animal. Any monogastric animal that isn’t eating its natural diet, u want to stay away from. The only animals that u want to consume that don’t eat their natural diet, are ruminant animals. They have 4 chambers to their stomachs, and are able to ferment and turn not great food into meat that’s still high quality enough to be very healthy for us. But with a monogastric animal, if they eat crap, the meat that u consume when eating them is crap too, and u want to stay away from eating them regularly. But if the monogastric animal is eating it’s natural diet, then go for it and eat that meat regularly. In regards to fish tho, most fish aren’t wild caught. So right away u don’t want to touch any fish that aren’t wild caught. And even if they are wild caught, u don’t want to consume them too regularly, due to most fish being moderate to high in heavy metals. I know everyone thinks the more omega 3’s from fish they can get, the better their health is going to be. But that’s not the case. It’s actually arguable that we don’t want to get too many polyunsaturated fats in our diet. So if ur going to consume fish, try to stick to only wild caught fish, and only eat them maybe once or twice a week. Or eat some sardines here and there during the week as a little omega 3 supplement. And like I said, just stay away from eating chicken and pork on a regular basis, unless it’s from chickens and pigs that were fed their natural diet. The meat that u want to be consuming as much as possible everyday is fatty ruminant animal meat.
Don’t stress cholesterol. Cholesterol is not what causes cardiovascular disease. Eating as much fatty ruminant meat as u can each day will only decrease ur risk of cardiovascular disease. Don’t worry about how high ur HDL, LDL and/ or total cholesterol levels sit. What u want to focus on is keeping HDL as high as u can get it, and keeping triglycerides as low as possible. And then letting ldl and total cholesterol sit wherever it will. Studies show that the people with the lowest cholesterol levels have more cardiovascular events than people with high cholesterol. Don’t be like some people believing in false information that they grew up hearing. Like low cholesterol will prevent heart attacks, egg yolks and fatty red meat and cholesterol in general will increase ur chances of having a heart attack, butter is bad for u, eat margarine instead, etc. Whatever u learned growing up/ hearing about diet, basically just do the complete opposite lol. Eat as much fatty red meat as u can, consume as much grass fed butter as u want, and consume as many pastured egg yolks as u want. U do those things, and u would be shocked at how amazing u feel, and how ur overall health improves.
And either don’t consume at all, or if u have to, limit ur intake of nuts, seeds, legumes, grains, crap dairy and vegetables/ plants