Lisa Kay

“Carbohydrate-rich foods—grains, starchy vegetables, and sugars—work to keep insulin elevated in our circulation, and that traps the fat we eat in our fat cells and inhibits the use of that fat for fuel. That’s what the obesity research community should have been trying rigorously to resolve or refute for the past sixty years.”
― Gary Taubes, The Case for Keto: The Truth About Low-Carb, High-Fat Eating

“To cut to the chase, we are a carbohydrate substance abuse program, not a weight loss program.”
― Gary Taubes, The Case for Keto: The Truth About Low-Carb, High-Fat Eating

“The patients who succeed, these physicians agreed, tended to be those who could be induced to read at least some of the copious literature on LCHF/ketogenic eating that’s now available. They had to become people who cared enough to do the work.”
― Gary Taubes, The Case for Keto: The Truth About Low-Carb, High-Fat Eating

“The larger lesson is clear: brains have evolved for movement. If you're going to be stuck, unmoving, in one place, with all your food around you, then why do you need a costly brain?”
― Shane O'Mara, In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration