Reddit reviews The Case Against Sugar

I hope he also reviews The Case Against Sugar.

The Keto Diet - Leanne Vogel - she also has a podcast, if you like them.

Why We Get Fat - Gary Taubes

The Case Against Sugar - Gary Taubes

The Keto Reset Diet - Mark Sisson

The Ketogenic Bible - Jacob Wilson and Ryan Lowery

If you are looking for cookbooks, Maria Emmerich, Kyndra Holley, Carolyn Ketchum, and Amanda Hughes have great stuff. There's also a TON of sites for great keto recipes. Just let me know if you need some.

I think this is an interesting point, (and I suspect you already know this) but there's a fair bit of evidence that the amount and frequency of carbohydrates we are eating now is now what we evolved to eat. Most of our shelf-stable breads, sugary products, and whatnot that are very high carbohydrate did not exist until more recently in our evolution. If we look at sugar specifically (which is the most common carbohydrate to over-consume as it is highly palatable), until the last 100 years it was physically impossible to industrially produce anywhere near the amount of sugar that our society consumes on a daily basis today. [See The Case Against Sugar.] Sugar used to be expensive and rare, now it is a staple of our everyday diets, even for young children.

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I think ketogenic diets and similar ultra-low-carb diets would be mostly not necessary if we had not already developed fatty liver and impaired glucose tolerance from a combination of neonatal exposure to high levels of testosterone and amh and excess childhood sugar (and high fructose corn syrup) consumption from sugary cereals that did not exist at all in our diets until the last few generations. [See The Diabetes Code.]

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Also even if there was a higher level of exposure to carbohydrates which is the case in some cultures that predominantly survived on rice or potatoes, there were regular amounts of famine which would reduce any insulin resistance that had developed fairly quickly, as they do in individuals who undergo bariatric surgery.

I've found Gary Taubes' books on carbohydrate intake, and sugar's effect on our insulin mechanisms really fascinating and illuminating on the topic of diabetes.

Why We Get Fat: And What To Do About It on Amazon.

The Case Against Sugar on Amazon.

He's done a couple AMAs here on Reddit too.

(I know not everyone agrees with what he says, but I found it informative nonetheless. Just a perspective that happens to makes sense to me and jives with my general take on diet + nutrition.)