The patient was eventually diagnosed with a condition known as xanthelasma — the build-up of cholesterol under the skin.

A man who told doctors he ate nothing, but 6–9 pounds of butter, cheese and hamburgers every day for eight months ended up at Tampa General Hospital with yellowish lumps of cholesterol developing on parts of his body.

A man in his 40s consumed a "carnivore diet" for eight months and then developed yellow bumps on his hands, feet and elbows called xanthelasmas, signs of high cholesterol.

Eight months spent following a "carnivore diet" caused a man to grow big, yellow bumps on his hands, feet and elbows.

The man in his 40s, who was not identified, had been on the carnivore diet for 8 months when he started to notice the discoloration on the palms of his hands, his elbows and the soles of his feet, according to a medical case report published Jan. 22 in the peer-reviewed journal Cardiovascular Images from the American Medical Association.

Doctors published a case report this week detailing a rare complication linked to adopting an extreme high-fat "carnivore" diet.

What could go wrong with eating an extremely high-fat diet of beef, cheese, and sticks of butter? Well, for one thing, your cholesterol levels could reach such stratospheric levels that lipids start oozing from your blood vessels, forming yellowish nodules on your skin.

There is currently no research that supports the alleged health benefits of the so-called "carnivore diet," which consists entirely of meat and animal products. In fact, most nutritionists will warn that the diet is inherently unsafe,

The patient adopted a carnivore diet approximately 8 months before presentation,” an abstract from the article said. “His dietary habits included a high intake of fats, consisting of 6 to 9 lb of cheese,

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