Dr Anthony Chaffee warns in 60 Minutes interview that ‘vegetables are trying to kill you’

A controversial doctor who eats more than a kilogram of red meat every day warned in a bizarre interview that “plants are trying to kill you.”

Dr. Anthony Chaffee, who studied science in the US and medicine in Ireland before moving to Perth, has not eaten vegetables in five years and preaches the ‘carnivore diet’.

The doctor, who hosts The Plant Free MD Podcast, was featured on 60 Minutes Sunday night as part of a segment about the wellness industry and the “gurus” who promote unorthodox ideas that often run counter to conventional wisdom.

Humans are apex predators, at the top of the food chain. What other apex predator eats salad,” Dr. Chaffee countered.

“There are things in meat that you must have that you can’t get from plants.

‘But there’s nothing in plants or fungi that you need that you can’t get from meat.

‘So you should eat meat and certainly not plants.

“And I would say you don’t want to eat plants for optimal health.”

When it was presented to him that most of the other dBecause doctors would say his vegetable-free diet is unhealthy and dangerous, Dr. Chaffee admitted that most in the medical community strongly disagree.

“But those same practitioners and that same advice have made us fatter and sicker than we’ve ever been in human history,” he said.

His extreme aversion to vegetables and salad began with something a lecturer at the University of Washington told him two decades ago.

The cancer biology professor said plants are a potentially deadly food source.

However, Dr. Chaffee and his classmates thought that vegetables are still good for them.

The professor looked at them and said, ‘I don’t eat salad, I don’t eat vegetables. I don’t let my kids eat vegetables. Plants try to kill you.’

Dr. Chaffee says there are historical precedents that prove him right and so many health experts wrong.

“People were wrong about a lot of things,” he said. “You know, most of these… experts once thought the world was flat, right? That has changed.’

When presented with the fact that most other doctors would say his no vegetable diet is unhealthy and dangerous, Dr. Chaffee admitted that most in the medical community strongly disagreed.

One of Dr Chaffee’s most prominent opponents is London-based Dr Idrees Mughal, who said that when plants try to kill people, ‘they do a pretty bad job’.

Dr. Mughal, who refers to himself as Dr. Idz on TikTok, where he calls out health misinformation, said there is no big secret to good health.

He said it “simply follows general lifestyle principles that have been well established for decades.

“Get 30 minutes of moderately intensive exercise five times a week, make sure you get enough plant-based foods, eat less red meat and eat plenty of whole grains.”

Dr. Idz said the simplicity of good health makes it boring for people looking online, “and that’s why those things don’t get the reach that the other trends and fads do.”

that of the Australian government Eat for health website advises eating red meat only “occasionally and in small amounts.”

It is also advised to eat a lot of vegetables, grains and fruit.