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 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

“Some cultures venerate this experience: the Japanese, for example, have the glorious tradition of ‘forest bathing’ (shinrin-yoku): the practice of absorptive, enveloping walking in deep forests for the soothing properties of being connected to, and fully immersed in, the sights, sounds and feel of nature.”
― Shane O'Mara, In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration

“To cut to the chase, we are a carbohydrate substance abuse program, not a weight loss program.”
― Gary Taubes, The Case for Keto: The Truth About Low-Carb, High-Fat Eating