The Case for Keto: Rethinking Weight Control and the Science and Practice of Low-Carb/High-Fat Eating

by Gary Taubes

Yalow and Berson said, getting fat out of our fat cells “requires only the negative stimulus of insulin deficiency.”

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.