CarnivoreDiet.gr, in English¶

CarnivoreDiet.gr is a Greek-language, non-commercial project that reviews the primary research behind common claims about red meat, heart disease, and cancer, and, just as rigorously, the carnivore diet's own open questions and weak points. This page is a short summary for English-speaking readers; the full site is written in Greek.

What this site actually does¶

Most of the debate around red meat happens at the level of headlines and social media claims, rarely at the level of the actual studies behind them. This site tries to close that gap for a Greek-speaking audience: 14 of the most common claims against red meat (heart disease, cancer, cholesterol, kidney function, gout, and others) are each examined against their primary sources, with a GRADE certainty rating (very low to high) attached to the underlying evidence, not just to our own interpretation of it.

A separate page does the same thing in the other direction: Open Questions applies the same standard of scrutiny to the carnivore diet itself, its genuine micronutrient gaps, the open scientific debate around LDL cholesterol in lean, metabolically healthy people, the near-total absence of long-term randomized trials in either direction, kidney load in people who already have reduced kidney function, and the diet's environmental and social costs. A site that only stress-tests claims made against a diet, without applying the same standard to the diet itself, would have exactly the kind of selective framing this project tries to avoid.

How sources are handled¶

Every specific number or claim links to a numbered primary source on the Πηγές (Sources) page, so it can be checked directly rather than taken on faith.
Peer-reviewed journals and official positions (WHO, IARC, KDIGO) are preferred over secondary news coverage.
Where a topic is under active scientific debate (for example, the cardiovascular significance of elevated LDL in the "Lean Mass Hyper-Responder" phenotype), that's stated explicitly rather than resolved artificially.
The project does not accept funding from the meat, dairy, or pharmaceutical industry, and does not sell supplements, courses, or coaching. See Εμπιστοσύνη (Trust) for the reasoning behind why that distinction matters more than a credential or a job title.

What it isn't¶

This isn't medical advice, and it isn't an argument that everyone should eat a carnivore diet. Nutrition science evolves, and what's presented today as the strongest reading of the evidence may be revised by new data tomorrow. If you have an underlying health condition, a conversation with a doctor outweighs anything on this site.

Reading the Greek content¶

The rest of the site, the full claim-by-claim review, the open questions page, the FAQ, and the sourced bibliography, is written in Greek. Browser-based translation (Chrome and Firefox both offer this natively) works reasonably well for getting the gist, though the primary sources linked throughout are almost all already in English, since that's the language most of the underlying research is published in.

A good place to start: Είναι το κόκκινο κρέας επικίνδυνο; (the homepage, with all 14 claims listed against their certainty ratings), or the Open Questions page directly.

Corrections, questions, or a study we've missed: info@carnivorediet.gr.