Testing the Robert F Kennedy Jr diet

All four have been following the so-called ‘living diet’ recommended by Sean O’Mara, a physician and retired colonel who says men should eat nothing but the flesh of grass-fed ruminants – cows, bison, elk and venison — and as many different fermented foods as possible. Mmmm mmmm!

The article begins with O’Mara showing Staley a liquid described as both “the colour of radiator fluid” and looking the same as Mountain Dew, the sickly US soft drink not available in the UK because of its banned ingredients. It turns out to be human urine. “Passing urine this color is a good thing, O’Mara said, and it started happening to him six years ago,” reports Staley.

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“He wanted me eating fermented beets, carrots and radishes; Roquefort and Parmesan; yogurt, kefir and kvass,” he goes on. “He showed me a picture of his typical plate of food: It looked as if a steak had been dropped on a painter’s easel, studded as it was with multihued hillocks of fermented vegetables. 

“‘I have a refrigerator that has about 20 to 30 ferments, and I just get little bits of each one,’ he explained. ‘I’m just rubbing this meat around in all that bacteria.’” Once again: mmmm mmmm!

Staley does speak to Marion Nestle of New York University, whose views on nutrition, he notes, “are more mainstream than O’Mara’s”. Nestle agrees the diet would be effective as a temporary route to weight loss, but adds: “But it just sounds boring to me.”

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“At one point in our conversation he pulled up the Bristol Stool Chart, which ranges from Type 1 (‘separate, hard pellets’) to Type 7 (‘watery, no solid pieces’),” writes Staley. “O’Mara is consistently delivering Type 4 (‘smooth, soft, like a snake’), with pointed ends, indicative of healthy rectal function, he told me. 

“When you start eating healthy, you don’t need toilet paper,’ he claimed. ‘Animals in the wild have no residual stool on their anus.’ He described a proper bowel movement to me this way: odorless, wipe-free, over in three to seven seconds and ‘nearly orgasmic.’

“‘I could have a bowel movement behind a sheet at a dinner party in the corner of the room,’ he said, ‘and nobody would know.’”

Which certainly paints a rather unpleasant picture of exactly what’s going on in Trump’s cabinet meetings!