The Florida man has become legendary for his awful decision-making.
One resident of the Sunshine State had an attempt at self-improvement backfire.
And a Florida man turned yellow after he made one horrible decision.
Florida man suffers a shocking side effect from fad diet
Fad diets have been around for decades as Americans search for a way to lose weight and get healthy.
Millions of people have tried the Paleo diet, keto, or the cabbage soup diet.
One of the newest fad diets is the carnivore diet where people following it only eat animal by-products like meat, dairy, and eggs.
Fruits, vegetables, grains, and seeds are off-limits for its followers.
It became popular after it was championed by psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson and his daughter, Mikhaila Peterson.
A Florida man in his 40s discovered the downside of the carnivore diet after he became a strict follower of it.
The man showed up at a hospital in the Tampa Bay area after parts of his hands and feet turned yellow.
A yellow ooze began to leak out of nodes on his hands, feet, and elbows.
The man told doctors that he had been on the carnivore diet for eight months.
He was eating several whole sticks of butter daily and six to nine pounds of cheese and ground beef.
The man claimed that his health had improved on the diet.
He claimed to have more energy, lost weight, and improved brain function after he started eating only animal byproducts.
But it turned out the diet did not improve his health.
Florida man becomes a medical case study
The JAMA Cardiology Journal published a case study about the Florida man after his attempt at the carnivore diet went horribly wrong.
He was dealing with the yellow ooze coming out of his skin for a month before he went to see a doctor.
Doctors found that the Florida man’s cholesterol level was above 1,000 mg/dL.
Anything above 240 mg/dL is considered to be high.
The man’s cholesterol level before embarking on the carnivore diet ranged from 210 mg/dl to 300 mg/dl.
Doctors diagnosed him with xanthelasma, a condition caused by high cholesterol or too much fat in the blood.
Xanthelasma causes lipid deposits to form on the body and in his case the yellow ooze out of him was excess lipids.
Researchers wrote in the JAMA Cardiology Journal the Florida man’s case “highlights the impact of dietary patterns on lipid levels and the importance of managing hypercholesterolemia to prevent complications.”
The case study never revealed what happened to the Florida man after he went to the hospital.
Carnivore diet supporters have not been deterred by the warnings about it on social media.
They argued that it is a return to the diet that man ate thousands of years ago when they were hunter-gatherers.
“There’s been a consistent story about hunting defining us and that meat made us human,” paleobiologist Amanda Henry told National Geographic. “Frankly, I think that misses half of the story. They want meat, sure. But what they actually live on is plant foods.”
Henry said that man began eating grains and tubers like potatoes 100,000 years ago.
The Florida man learned a hard lesson about following the latest fad diet craze.
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