Anderson family: On meat diet for 17 years!
MOST nutritionists claim that a balanced diet is essential to living a long and healthy life, but the Anderson family is proof that their theories don’t apply to everyone. For almost two decades now, they have been following a zero carb, all-meat diet that they claim has kept them healthy, happy, and strong for all these years.
It all began when Joe Anderson experimented with high protein diets in the mid 1990s. And when his wife Charlene was diagnosed with Lyme disease in 1998, the only food she could consume without having severe reactions was red meat. “This blew us away: fatty red meat, the very thing that had been demonized by the entire health community was giving her strength,” Joe said in a recent interview with a popular zero-carb diet website.
Faced with this information, Joe and Charlene spent the next few years reading books and articles on meat-based diets that encouraged the consumption of fatty, red meat. They were trying to understand how such an ‘extreme’ diet was working so well for them. They were eventually convinced and completely switched over to eating only meat.
When they first turned to a zero carb lifestyle, Joe said that they included non-meat foods such as eggs, cheese and whey. They also ate various types of meat like fish, bacon, chicken and lamb. But they slowly began to notice that they never felt as good with other meats as they did with beef. “The more we ate beef, the less we desired other meats,” Joe explained. “I noticed that eggs and dairy gave me puffy eyes, frequent headaches and a stuffy nose.” They also stopped consuming animal organs because of how “inflamed” they felt the next morning.
Today, Joe, 57, Charlene, 42, along with their kids Charlie, 10 and George, 8, have only one large meal every night, consisting of beef – preferably the rib-eye cut. They ask their butcher for untrimmed rib-eye, which has so much fat that they don’t need to add additional fat to cook it. Joe eats about two to three pounds of beef, while Charlene and the boys stick to one or two pounds. “We all eat until we’re stuffed. I mean literally,” Joe revealed. “Thanksgiving full. Every night is an all out gorge fest!”
Joe Anderson also revealed that they do not drink any beverages other than water, and do not salt their food because salt makes them “puffy faced.” They don’t even use spices to season their meat, or take any supplements to enhance their diet. There’s always just one thing their grocery list, and that’s beef! But their grocery bills are surprisingly huge – between $1,000 and $1,750 a month – because, well, beef is expensive.
Interestingly, the Anderson children have adapted pretty well to the unusual diet. Joe said that both boys were raised on meat ever since they started eating solid food. But if they do display curiosity towards other types of foods, they aren’t discouraged. “Around the age 4 both boys went through a phase where they became curious about other foods. I told them I would buy them anything they wanted – just let me know and we’ll see how you feel,” Joe said.
For people reluctant about Zero Carb diets, Joe’s advice is to just give them a try. “You don’t have to be sick or overweight to benefit from this way of eating,” he said. “Also don’t complicate it! When you’re hungry eat meat, when you’re thirsty drink water. This way of eating is energy giving, clean and exciting. My body and mind are more active and responsive at age 56 than when I was in my 20s.”
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