Man only eats beef and dairy; gets dangerously high cholesterol

[Kyng]

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/healt...911062007/


(Source: JAMA Network / Above article)

Ever wonder what would happen if you only ate meat and cheese?

One man in his 40s ended up at a Florida hospital with cholesterol coming out of his body. He told doctors he ate 6 to 9 pounds of cheese, sticks of butter, and hamburgers every day, according to a paper published in JAMA Cardiology on Wednesday.

For about 8 months, the man ate a high-fat, meat-heavy diet, taking diet advice from the internet, according to Dr. Konstantinos Marmagkiolis, an interventional cardiologist at Tampa General Hospital who treated the man.

The diet was meant to manage the man's weight and improve overall well-being, said Marmagkiolis, the author of the JAMA paper and a collaborative associate professor of cardiology at the University of South Florida Health Morsani College of Medicine.

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Pretty gross that he ended up with cholesterol oozing out of his hands like that . But sadly, it's not surprising that following these 'extreme' diets - especially without the help of a dietician - can go so horribly wrong.

I hope he's consuming a more balanced diet now!

[Velocity Girl]

Crap, sometimes I'm afraid this kind of thing will happen to me

[Bryn]

taking diet advice from the internet

Reddit, by any chance?

And yeah, that picture is revolting indeed... the diet has done more harm than good and I hope the man realises this.

[Kyng]

taking diet advice from the internet

Reddit, by any chance?

And yeah, that picture is revolting indeed... the diet has done more harm than good and I hope the man realises this.

Yeah, could well be .

Reminds me of a story I saw on Reddit a few years ago, where somebody was advised to go on a Mediterranean diet of fish and vegetables, in order to lose weight. But then, after several months of following this diet, they'd instead gained loads of weight, and were unsure as to why...

It turned out they'd actually been eating fish and chips from the local chippy - every single day, for goodness knows how many months .