Actually, I think it will be healthy. I'll probably do 2-3 interviews a week, so it's not like I'll be eating burgers for every meal. Burger Bear's burgers are made with very good quality beef. I am somebody who exercises regularly, and from my work at my startup Tribesports, I'm very aware of how to balance my activity and diet. In fact, one of the things I might do on the blog is record my weight and health throughout the project.
I don't doubt you're capable of keeping in shape, but the jury is definitely out on the long term health implications of eating a lot of red meat and animal protein - I don't mean just getting fat.
My grandfather ate about 8-10 eggs per day for about his whole life, because they lived on the country-side and they ate what they could produce (e.g. had hens that produced eggs). He was also drinking about 1 letter of milk daily straight from his cow and in case you never drank raw unprocessed milk, let me tell you it's freaking fat compared to what you find in store. He was also drinking about 1 letter of his own wine and a couple of shots of his own brandy per day. His favorite dish was also raw pig bacon though because of their relative poverty, this wasn't happening often, maybe once or twice per month.
He died at 99, one month from turning 100. Never had heart disease, never had cholesterol problems. He lived in an area in which all the people have similar dietary habits. In fact if you'll ever come to Romania, you'll notice that only the French eat fatter and IMHO the jury is still out on that one, because while the French use tons of butter for everything, I think we are eating more pork-based dishes (bathed in sunflower oil), more than anybody else, pork being way more popular than fish, beef or even chicken (during the holidays). You should see my favorite dishes ;-)
The above is just an anecdote of course, but do take studies with a grain of salt, especially studies on nutrition. Such studies cannot control or even estimate all the variables involved (short of keeping subjects in a cage locked away for 20 years) and cannot be conducted doubly-blind. We are a long way off to understanding anything about the impact of our diet.
Also, it should make you wonder why in the world your medics declared war on fat since 1960, while they ignored the biggest elephant in the room, which is our increased intake of sugar.
> Also, it should make you wonder why in the world your medics declared war on fat since 1960, while they ignored the biggest elephant in the room, which is our increased intake of sugar.
Probably one of: easier to sell, expected higher status increase, balance of lobbying funds.
I'd expect those to be more likely the real reasons for it even if they'd declared war on sugar instead, to be honest.
My grandfather seemed to subsist on half a bottle of whisky, one raw egg and a packet of Trebor Extra Strong Mints a day for the last 30 years of his life and lived into his 90s ... I wouldn't recommend that diet to anyone though.
