You would get scurvy and die.

The other answer is correct. the human body cannot survive, by eating nothing but meat. Besides, your chlorestrol level would race to the moon.

Early Arctic explorers though that they would survive by eating only meat, because Eskimos do it. However, most or all of them died--some from eating canned meat contaminated with lead solder, some from eating poisonous parts of animals such as the polar bear liver which has toxic levels of Vitamin A, but mostly from malnutrition because the Innuit, like other northern carnivores, ate the entire animal including parts I'd rather not think about--some of the digestive organs AND their contents.

Severe bowel problems, higher risk of rectal and colon cancer, dangerous levels of ureaic acid in blood, constipation, not recommended

1) "Stefansson documented the fact that most Inuit lived on a diet of about 90% meat and fish, often going 6-9 months a year on nothing but meat and fish--essentially, a zero-carbohydrate diet. He found that he and his fellow European-descent explorers were also perfectly healthy on such a diet. When medical authorities questioned him on this, he and a fellow explorer agreed to undertake a study under the auspices of the Journal of the American Medical Association to demonstrate that they could eat a 100% meat diet in a closely-observed laboratory setting for the first several weeks, with paid observers for the rest of an entire year. The results were published in the Journal of the AMA, and both men were perfectly healthy on such a diet, without vitamin supplementation or anything else in their diet except meat." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhjalmur_Stefansson 2) "In the 1920s, Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson noted in his travels that Eskimos seemed to fare quite nicely on a zero-carbohydrate diet (the Arctic being not exactly the ideal climate for cultivating fruits, grain, or vegetables). Under the watchful eyes of physicians from New York's Cornell University Medical College and Bellevue Hospital, Stefansson and a colleague submitted themselves to a meat-only diet for a year. They ate 2,500 calories a day, of which 75 percent was fat. As reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, on July 6, 1929, the two men finished out their year of a no-carbohydrate diet not only slimmer—each had lost 6 pounds—but with reduced (and completely normal) cholesterol. It's worth repeating that the men were eating a diet with 75 percent of the calories coming from fat. Current recommendations are to eat no more than 30 percent of calories as fat—which very few people can maintain—and there are some recommendations for even lower percentages than that." Source: http://www.diabetes911.net/readit/chapter9.shtml 3) Here a critical remark: "Stefansson was pleased. 'To me this had been an anthropological and physiological study, and in it I was not impartial,' he wrote. Nor was his sponsor - the American Meat Institute."" Source: http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=2276 Further information: Adventures in Diet By Vilhjalmur Stefansson: http://www.biblelife.org/stefansson1.htm Some precisions: - I am a convinced ovo-lacto-vegetarian, since years. I do this mostly for ethical reasons. - this argument seems to be used very often by the anti vegetarians, it is one of their main arguments - some people have doubts about the control conditions of the experiment. However, this study does not seem to have been repeated or contradicted since it was done in the 20s. Why? Or has someone heard about an analogous experiment with other conclusions? - I also did not find much vegetarian or dieteticians giving many arguments against this very study. Have you heard some? - I like the argument that the Inuits just eat everything from the animals, included the contents of the stomach. But it does not seem to have been the case in the experiment - the Inuits have a natural kind of nutrition. This would not be the case by people just eating cooked meat, and the product of the meat industry with high concentrations of various chemicals, medicine, additives and poisons - today's Inuits who still follow the traditional alimentation have the highest concentration of poisons in mother milk in the world because of their alimentation based on animals, which are at the end of a poisoned food chain. They have been warned not to breast feed their children - one of the sponsor of the study was the meat industry - the test person was a convinced anti vegetarian (however, you would probably not have found a vegetarian to do this experiment) - it seems that the key factor for the success of the experiment was not eating meat, but rather eating much fat and animal oil. Further, meat was probably eaten raw, as the Inuit do.

scurvy would be sure I agree. high risk of gastrointestinal problems not safe cardiovascular problems you would have good skin integrity with all the protein ha ha.As far as the additives in foods today why do you think life expectency is so high compared to like the 30's 40's etc...It is higher than ever HELLO if we eat without all this stuff are lives will be shortened. Obivously know one here has had any nutrition classes....

Actually all preservatives are not harmful to are bodies. When you say,"Medical advances" which is a very broad statement. It goes without saying those advances include the products that are in our foods today; according to the classes I took in med school. The additives in our food contribute greatly to our life expectency. Many things for example: Flouride in water iodine in salt etc....Study up on it just a little and you will see. This is a common thing taught at a novice level in most colleges these days.

You would have severe malnutrition and possibly die. YOU are not a carnivore. You COULD live on veggies, fruits and grains, though.

you'd just gain a few pounds.

You also say eskimo,s lived on nothing but meat this is very false.....The inuits ate vegetable also there food was mostly raw not just meat read this whole article.....I have recently been to Alaska and know some eskimo which they are never called eskimo there are so many tribes it is a name white people use. And they have MAJOR HEALTH PROBLEMS. You need more than this article http://www.beyondveg.com/tu-j-l/raw-cooked/raw-cooked-3h.shtml to prove your statement read this whole article it will inform you of their raw eating of not just meat. The eskimo's as you call them mostly their health problems are related to all the incest and poor infection control etc.....

I think you would become quite ill.

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Being a pure meat-only eater, and healthy at the age of 40 now. Eating meat only since i was 16, i can safely say that all warnings and such are nonsense. Dont get me wrong, some parts surely are true for some people, but not for others. No two bodies are alike, so it is impossible to predict how this would affect you specifically. I have lived off meat only for 24 years now, and i'm perfectly healthy with regular checkups. Though at the same time, another person i know from the internet who also only ate meat got very sick from it after a year and was hospitalised. It proves that no matter how much research you do about this, it will always be based on general speculations, because your body might or might not be build for it. So, just start slowly if you want to, and as long as things keep feeling fine, slowly work up to meat only. That's the only way to know for sure. And if anything starts feeling different, check with a doctor to be sure.

I have been eating only meat since I was 5, at which point I couldn't stomach them anymore, and I haven't experienced any health problems whatsoever. My doctor says I'm one of the healthiest patients he has ever seen. I used to eat potatoes... but only in the form of french fries and those artificial mashed potatoes, but I have stopped eating both in the last couple of years. The only vegetable I guess you could say I eat is tomatoes... but only in the form of ketchup and BBQ sauce. I have faired fairly well on my all meat diet and haven't had any problems, so I'd have to say that you would be perfectly fine eating only meat for a year.

I would be very healthy and happy. I have been doing it for 38 years.. In other words my whole life. I wish I could eat veggies they look quite appetizing. FYI Vitamins are a good help.

It would be alright if you are young. If you are middle-aged, you would probably end up with high uric acid and suffer from gout. +4

Since meat contains all the nutrients your body needs, you will do just fine. After all, unless the animals you are eating died of nutitional deficiencies, their flesh will have all you need.

You will become very unhealthy..lots of meat is not good for us..it may lead to heart disease, blocked artieries, high cholesterol, oxidative cell damage and can also lead to certain cancers..you can check this with your doctor..