Sublime

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

An era of neurotic, cheerless eating ensued, as all foods with a trace of fat – chicken skin, egg yolks, whole milk – were condemned to waste.

English: participants that abided by the “eat everything in moderation” rule were eating fewer healthy foods, such as vegetables, and more unhealthy foods, such as grain-fed meats, desserts, and soda. “These results suggest that in modern diets, eating ‘everything in moderation’ is actually worse than eating a smaller number of healthy foods,” comm

Processing food—carbs, fat, whatever—makes it instantly more toxic to your system.

Our genes make their day-to-day decisions based on chemical information they receive from the food we eat, information encoded in our food and carried from that food item’s original source, a microenvironment of land or sea. In that sense, food is less like a fuel and more like a language conveying information from the outside world.

(He later explained that, at the moment, parents have to fight against an army of advertisers trying to get their kids to eat badly, and a food-supply system that is designed to hack our weaknesses—I’ll