A fad for consuming high-protein, high-fat food, while avoiding vegetables, has taken off online. Followers are doing themselves no favours
Once, it seemed that much of the world was intent on drastically cutting back on meat for health and environmental reasons. Vegetarian and vegan options appeared on restaurant menus and the very idea of a bloody red steak became almost unthinkable in liberal circles. And yet the carnivore diet is now all over Instagram and TikTok, prompting health bodies to start issuing warnings.
Followers of this diet eat meat, fat, seafood, eggs and butter, avoiding all vegetables, fruits, grains and legumes as if plants were, as Paul Saladino, an advocate of this diet alleged, “poison”. Dr Saladino is a US psychiatrist and health influencer with a range of supplements called Heart and Soil that contain dried animal organ meat. He appears shirtless on social media, denouncing vegetables, which he says will harm us. Other Instagrammers tuck into plates of huge steaks and seven or more eggs for breakfast. It’s not just for weight loss.
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08/25/2025 - 12:00
08/25/2025 - 10:00
Exposure to high temperatures could result in long-lasting damage to health of billions of people, scientists warn
Repeated exposure to heatwaves is accelerating ageing in people, according to a study. The impact is broadly comparable with the damage smoking, alcohol use, poor diet or limited exercise can have on health, the researchers said.
Extreme temperatures are increasingly common owing to the climate crisis, potentially causing widespread and long-lasting damage to the health of billions, the scientists warned.
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08/25/2025 - 09:05
Labor will seek to legislate national standards and federal EPA in one package rather than multiple stages, as it tried and failed to do last term
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A major overhaul of the federal environmental protection regime will be put to parliament this year, the minister, Murray Watt, has promised, as he warns further delays risk causing more “environmental destruction” and stalled investment.
After last week’s economic reform roundtable agreed to fast-track the original 18-month timeframe, Watt will on Tuesday confirm that legislation to re-write the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC) will be introduced before parliament rises for the year in late November.
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08/25/2025 - 09:00
After Ice’s infiltration of LA, the community is rallying to provide essentials for survival for those forced to stay home
When Danielle Duran Zecca saw military-style immigration raids and people being snatched off the streets and put into unmarked vehicles in her native Los Angeles earlier this summer, she was in disbelief.
“It just felt unreal like this wasn’t a world that we could be living in right now,” said Duran Zecca, a James Beard Award nominated chef and co-owner of Amiga Amore in Highland Park, a historically Latino neighborhood in north-east LA. “I didn’t know what to do, but I knew how to feed people and love on people because that is exactly how I was brought up in my family.”
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08/25/2025 - 08:00
Rangers cleared about 2,377 marijuana plants and 2,000lbs of trash and hazardous chemicals from Sequoia park
Park rangers have removed an illegal marijuana cultivation site in California’s Sequoia national park spanning approximately 13 acres (5 hectares).
In a press release on Thursday, the National Park Service said that it had removed a total of 2,377 full-grown marijuana plants and approximately 2,000lbs of trash and infrastructure last week by hand and helicopter sling-load operations.
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08/25/2025 - 07:28
Shares drop by 17% after stop-work order on $1.5bn project off Rhode Island, which was 80% complete
Shares in Ørsted hit an all-time low on Monday after the Trump administration ordered Europe’s largest wind power company to stop work on a near complete windfarm.
Ørsted’s shares plunged 17%, after it was forced to stop construction on its $1.5bn (£741m) Revolution Wind project off the coast of Rhode Island.
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08/25/2025 - 02:58
Charlotte Walker, 21, spoke of being bullied and battling mental health issues, and said she will focus on issues including housing, domestic violence and the climate crisis
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Australia’s youngest senator has told parliament in her first speech she battled depression and bullying before her election, and has dealt with misogyny and Pauline Hanson since.
Labor’s Charlotte Walker, a South Australian who turned 21 on election night, delivered the speech on Monday night.
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08/25/2025 - 02:27
According to latest government figures, heat-trapping pollution dropped by 1.4% in the year to March
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The Australian government was hit with sharp criticism in May when – despite its promise that it would take serious action – the country’s greenhouse gas emissions were revealed to have slightly increased last year.
New data for the year to March suggest this has now changed. According to a climate department quarterly inventory, heat-trapping pollution dropped by 1.4%.
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08/25/2025 - 00:49
You can sell fossil fuels overseas till the cows come home as long as you don’t burn it here
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08/25/2025 - 00:00
Since our early ancestors came down from the canopy, we may think we have learned how to live without trees. But our lives remain intertwined in incredible ways
Once upon a time there was a girl who lived in a tree. She had deep-set brown eyes and brown hair. She ate fruit – orange mangosteen and black juniper berries – crunched on nuts, sucked on sweet grasses and chewed juicy leaves, and dug up tubers and roots, knowing which ones were good, and which were hard or poisonous.
Sometimes, she followed the trails that crisscrossed through the grass, but much of the time she clambered through the broad crowns of the trees, reaching up for branches and feeling the texture of the bark against her hands, balancing against the trunks and springing along boughs. At night she tucked herself into the fork of several branches and curled up to sleep, watching stars like diamonds and branches against the sky.
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