Lisa Kay

“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

“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

“All diets that result in weight loss do so on one basis and one basis only: They reduce circulating levels of insulin; they create and prolong the negative stimulus of insulin deficiency.”
― Gary Taubes, The Case for Keto: The Truth About Low-Carb, High-Fat Eating

“The authorities who insist that abstaining from carbohydrates is an unsustainable lifestyle once again typically do so from the perspective of lean people whose primary fuel happens to be carbohydrates and whose bodies can tolerate carbohydrates without accumulating excess fat. From their perspective, a program that requires living without carbohydrates appears doomed to fail. Why would anyone do it, if another way existed that allowed for the occasional consumption of cinnamon buns and pasta (in moderation, not too much)? But for many of us, there may be no other way. Lean folks aren’t like us. They don’t get fat when they eat carbohydrates; they may not hunger for them just by thinking about them. They have a choice to live with carbohydrates or not. We don’t. Not if we want to be lean and as healthy as we can be.”
― Gary Taubes, The Case for Keto: Rethinking Weight Control and the Science and Practice of Low-Carb/High-Fat Eating