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Please Do Not Try To Survive On An All-Meat Diet

Food, Health

If your love of ribeye knows no bounds, perhaps you’d be interested in the carnivore diet. However, you need 13 vitamins in order to live, and though you can actually get most of them from eating a variety of meats, you’re going to miss out on some crucial ones if you totally forego flora.

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