KetoMD Quotes

“over 60% of Americans have either prediabetes or overt type 2 diabetes! This is a big deal. For each decade that you have type 2 diabetes, your life is shortened by 3.5 years.”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“No diet is sustainable if you’re hungry all the time!”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“So, yes, insulin resistance is a BIG DEAL, and this is only the tip of the iceberg. The fact that the medical community, despite the overwhelming amount of scientific support for it, is hardly addressing this at all is a travesty.”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“By far the biggest cause of insulin resistance is due to a high-carb diet. As you can see there are actually many causes for insulin resistance, but first and foremost is hyperinsulinemia itself as a result of a high-carb diet.”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“Lack of exercise: Just one week of sedentary activity can increase IR 7-fold! This is so problematic that it may be the main reason for increased IR as we age.”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“Hyperinsulinemia (too much insulin) and insulin resistance (cellular resistance to the action of insulin) go hand in hand and account for nearly all the pathology known as metabolic syndrome (also called hyperinsulinemic syndrome).”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“Insulin has widespread effects on nearly every cell in the body. Insulin is our major growth, or “anabolic” hormone, especially in adults. Bottom Line: Insulin promotes fat accumulation and blocks your fat from being burned for energy.”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“In order to lose weight, you must lower your insulin level. Period.”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“Clearly, something is obviously wrong with the traditional theory of obesity. Not only does it just not work, but to make matters worse, it shifts the blame onto the individual.”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“All diets work … until they don’t.”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“Here’s the point I want to make: Even though Adam had gastric bypass, he had regained his weight. So, if you are contemplating WLS, understand that you still have to make the lifestyle changes we are talking about here.”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“Almost anything that leads to weight loss will in some way lead to lowering insulin levels and insulin resistance.”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“Positive attitude Focus on what you get to have rather than on what you are giving up.”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“No diet will work if you’re hungry all the time!”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“In fact, “food addiction” is just as real as any other addiction. And it works the same way: We get a “high” from eating ice cream, so we reach for it again and again. However, over time we need more and more to get the same degree of pleasure, and overindulging has obvious negative consequences as our drive for this hyperpalatable food/drug/reward overwhelms our normal hypothalamic appetite control center.”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“I am convinced that what we are talking about will become standard of care within ten years, and fifty years from now we will look back on the decision to take fat out of our diet and create ultraprocessed “food” as the biggest public health mistake of all time.”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“Basically, we’re poisoning ourselves to death with the Standard American Diet (appropriately abbreviated “SAD”). The Antidote: Eat REAL food, cut the carbs, prioritize the protein, and fill with healthy fats and fiber.”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“In 2015, an article in The New York Times revealed that Coca-Cola had provided millions of dollars in funding to researchers who sought to downplay the link between sugary drinks and obesity.24 In June 2016, The Associated Press reported that candy makers were funding studies that claimed that children who eat candy tend to weigh less than those who do not.25 Really?”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“The United States used to have malaria, rampant TB, and other communicable diseases. But now our disease pattern has shifted to be dominated by the noncommunicable diseases like heart disease, diabetes, cancer, hypertension, and all their complications.”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“All told the noncommunicable diseases account for 89% of all deaths in the United States.”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“However, the truth is that most of us here in the United States will not die of COVID-19; rather, we will die of a noncommunicable disease (and most who do die from COVID-19 were put at risk because they had a noncommunicable disease).”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“Bottom Line: Rather than sloth and gluttony, the reason for the epidemic of obesity, diabetes, and the entire metabolic syndrome is that we are poisoning ourselves to death with our modern, ultraprocessed, fake foods.”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“But let’s cut to the chase. By far and away the biggest contributor to the current obesity epidemic is our food. The elephant in the room is that we have to account for the fact that the obesity epidemic took off in the late 1970s, which corresponds exactly with a dramatic change in our food supply—specifically, the low-fat/high-carb diet and the development of ultraprocessed food.”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“think we already know what the problem is: sloth and gluttony. If we would only push back from the table and not stuff ourselves and get more exercise, we would be fine. We just need to “eat less and move more!” Well, the problem is that “eat less, move more” just doesn’t work.”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“metabolic syndrome of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), account for the death of 89% of us. Fifty percent of us will die from the big two: cancer and heart disease; the rest from dementia, obesity, and diabetes-related complications, etc.”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“Food addiction is real. When we lose control of our eating to the point where our food controls us even though we know it is harmful, and after eating it we are wracked with guilt and shame, we know we have a problem.”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“The hormone primarily responsible for weight gain is insulin.”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“We know that typical caloric-restriction dieting doesn’t work for most people.”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders

“Saturated fat does not cause heart disease. Period. The cause of the obesity and diabetes epidemic is not sloth and gluttony but a genetic ability (or inability) to handle our heavily processed food environment overloaded with sugar.”
― Stephen Riggs, KetoMD: A Physician Makes the Case for Low-Carbohydrate Living to Combat Obesity, Diabetes, and a Host of Chronic Disorders