All foods stimulate insulin, thus all foods could be fattening—and that’s where the calorie confusion emerges. Since all foods could be fattening, we imagined that all foods could be measured in a common unit: the calorie. But the calorie was the wrong unit. Calories do not cause obesity. Instead, insulin is responsible. Without a framework for understanding insulin, it was impossible to understand the inconsistencies of the epidemiologic evidence.
Everything is about insulin
