Man’s Carnivore Diet Causes Strange Yellow Deposits on Skin : ScienceAlert

A not-particularly-healthy diet of hamburgers, cheese, and butter sticks led to one man from Florida developing yellow-ish cholesterol deposits across his body, according to a newly published report.


We don’t have too many details about the case, but the man is said to be in his 40s, and had been seeing “asymptomatic yellowish nodules on his palms, soles, and elbows” for three weeks by the time he went to see a doctor.


That followed around eight months of sticking to the carnivore diet, which means nothing but meat, poultry, eggs, seafood, some dairy products, and water. Fruit and vegetables are banned, as are grains, legumes, seeds, and nuts.

Yellow hands
Cholesterol deposits on the patient’s hands. (Marmagkiolis et al., JAMA Cardiology, 2025)

While the carnivore diet (a type of low-carbohydrate keto diet) has grown in…

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