Yes, there IS a 'possible' issue with processed meat, but it's still in the 'maybe' stage. We are old enough to remember when Doctors told us that butter was bad for us, so we switched to margarine. I still remember my mother mixing the little yellow dye packet included in the pure white margarine, making it look like butter. That was then. This is now. Butter is good for us! Do you remember the same issue with eggs? Only one a week, they said. That was then. Now we are told we can, and perhaps should, eat them every day! Salt? Cut it out completely, they said! But it's OK now. I eat pickles almost every day. Sauerkraut twice a week. I eat heavily salted nuts every day, and during the hot season, take salt tablets daily. My blood pressure remains around 120/75, give or take a few points. Perhaps the reduced salt intake guide is for people with hypertension and high blood pressure, and not for folks who do not suffer from it. Salt doesn't cause the problem to start. Most of us of retirement age are still planning our diets based on the Food Pyramid we were taught in primary school 65-75 years ago. There have been a LOT of changes. I, too, wonder about the Carnivore Diet for young children. But if you listen to this doctor, everything he says is backed up by peer-reviewed scientific studies, to which he links his comments. I doubt I'll live long enough to see the results, but the child is almost three years old now, eating this way since being weaned from mother's milk, and medically sound. Who knows?
