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A healthy diet will supply most of these nutrients, and we strongly recommend that you target foods that can supply all your nutrient needs. That said, modern agricultural practices have left foods less nutritionally dense than they once were.

Instead of training cells to use fatty acids for a survival metabolism, this biochemistry would suggest that humans need to utilize carbohydrates for a healthy metabolism and hormonal balance.

If the risk multiplier exceeds 5x, there is likely something pretty serious going on. What was the risk multiplier for insulin resistance here? 40x! The risk multiplier for high LDL was 1.001x—there was no statistical significance. Reaven’s study can be put alongside massive volumes of mechanistic and other data gathered previously on the connectio

The first pillar is associational evidence.

More randomized controlled trials on the diet-heart hypothesis were run in the 1980s and 1990s. They had the desperate goal of showing even a tiny problem with dietary fat. Hundreds of millions of dollars were invested to get the required results. The trials all failed to change mortality outcomes, even though some were biased to “help” the hypothe

Why We Get Fat - Gary Taubes

The empowering news here is that we can mimic many of these benefits in part by keeping tight reins on our bodies’ production of insulin. We can do this by engaging in brief periods of fasting (which I will introduce in chapter 6), avoiding rapidly digesting sugars, and demoting starches (especially processed grains) from mainstays in our diets to