In this 2003 article, Coach Glassman looked back at the fight between low-fat, high-carbohydrate dietary advice and a growing group of clinicians, researchers, and authors arguing that excessive carbohydrate consumption and hyperinsulinemia were central to obesity and metabolic disease. He credits books by Robert Atkins, Barry Sears, Michael and Mary Dan Eades, Uffe Ravnskov, Loren Cordain, and others with giving people an alternative to prevailing dietary guidance—and allowing them to test those ideas for themselves. Greg argues that the results helped drive a bottom-up reconsideration of conventional nutrition advice before much of the medical establishment was willing to do so.

More than 20 years later, many of the questions raised in these books—about insulin resistance, carbohydrate restriction, dietary fat, metabolic syndrome, and chronic disease—remain central to the chronic disease epidemic and the foundation of MetFix. Coach's original reading list provides a snapshot of that debate in 2003; for newer books that continue and expand on many of these ideas, see the BSI Book Library.

https://brokenscience.org/nutrition-avoiding-metabolic-derangement/