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they are your body’s primary energy source... a good amount of carbs is required for efficient bodily function

A common misconception - please read the bellow reference.

https://discuss.online/post/38213064 - Confronting myths: relative and absolute requirements of dietary carbohydrates and glucose as metabolic fuels. - 2024

As a thought experiment you will notice people store fat, and get fat, as their bodies energy reserve. It wouldn't make sense to store energy in a form you don't prefer. Humans do not store glucose (which is what carbs are, just sugars), you only have about 5g of glucose in your blood at any time.... the rest gets stored as fat.

So if you eat a bunch of carbs, they turn into blood glucose, which gets turned into fat... which you then burn directly when you haven't eaten for a few hours (i.e. sleeping)... the problem is most people are grazing carbohydrates all day, so their insulin never comes down leading to a host of metabolic problems.

and smoked, cured, etc meat is a Class 1 Carcinogen, thus it is WAYYYYY more dangerous than carbs

the IARC is a political body who gave an opinion, and if you want to see how the sausage is made here is the opinion of one of the committee members on the process meat - https://discuss.online/post/25112884 he also addresses the bias of the committee members (most of whom were vegan, and they did not apply rigor to their survey).

As a thought experiment - if red meat causes cancer, why don't you have cancer already, you are made of red meat after all.....