TikTok streams a worrying diet called Lion Diet that encourages viewers to follow a very restricted diet, raising health concerns among professionals, know its recipes
The Lion Diet has been popular for a long time, with proponents of the all-meat diet praising it in print, online, and audio formats. But in the last month, the diet has become more popular than ever.
Explained What Is The Lion Diet, Its Recipes And Results As It Goes Viral On TikTok
The trend is quite similar to the viral carnivore diet, in which participants are encouraged to consume just meat, salt, and water (like a lion would), while cutting out all vegetables, grains, and sweeteners from their diets.
According to Healthline, its purported advantages include lowering inflammation, boosting mood, and alleviating migraines, sleeplessness, and allergies. Health professionals, however, are sounding the alarm about the worrying trend. Find out what dietitians think of The Lion Diet by reading on!
Here is a great visual from @livevitaeuk that shows the reality of beef's nutrient density. Most people, when they think of beef, do not understand just how nutrient-dense the meat actually is. There's a lot in there! pic.twitter.com/u9ohCYaMmw
— The Lion Diet (@theliondiet) December 12, 2022
The 30-day “meat only,” salt and water diet regimen, also called the “carnivore diet,” has gone viral on TikTok in recent weeks, thanks to influencers who promote it. The Lion Diet promotes itself as “a healing elimination diet,” but health professionals are concerned about its “extreme” nature and its potential side effects.
Meat, salt, and water are the only allowed foods on the Lion Diet. That rules out eating any kind of fresh produce, any kind of grain or bean, any kind of sweetener, any kind of dairy, and even a pinch of pepper.
Advocates on TikTok have been applauding the diet for its miraculous capacity to help with headaches, skin disorders, and even mood balancing, but health experts have stated that there is “no scientific proof” to support these claims.
Carnivore: try the Lion Diet and you'll be a new man https://t.co/gmxAh18Dj5
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) December 19, 2022
Years of study and scientific evidence show that the nutrients included in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains have beneficial impacts on the body’s ability to repair and grow cells, which in turn promotes healthy functioning. As one might expect, eliminating certain foods from one’s diet would have some negative consequences.
Nutritional Problem In Lion’s Diet
Since then, researchers at Healthline in the US have spoken out, stating the Lion Diet is full of nutritional problems: “In addition to being rich in saturated fat, it’s unsustainable and likely to lead to nutritional deficiencies.” The New York Post has weighed in on the craze, saying that it is “unsustainable, harmful, useless, unnecessarily rigid, and severe.”
Though the Lion Diet has gone viral on TikTok, health professionals still advise people to rely on evidence rather than anecdotes. The Australian Heart Foundation, which bases its recommendations only on scientific studies, states that a weekly consumption of 350 grammes of unprocessed beef, pig, lamb, or veal is ideal (not three meals a day).
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