Getting off highly refined foods that combine carbs and fats is a big step in the right direction.

Bikman mentions in the interview that in nature carbs and fats rarely come in the same natural food package together. It is either carbs and protein, fat and protein but rarely fat and carbs. The exception he notes is milk, which is high in all three, fat protein and carbs (lactose or milk sugar). What is milk in nature for? Feeding infants or young animals for the fastest growth rate.

A natural time of insulin resistance provided by natural causes is puberty (during rapid growth) and gestation (where a mother is gaining body fat getting ready for the lactation period). This keeps insulin levels high to promote rapid growth.

High carbs and fats together (like most modern packaged foods) is not a natural occurrence. High carbs equals high insulin levels and fat storage. The opposite of what a person wants to be when trying to lose weight. That is why a low carb diet works (a nutritional ketogenic diet is simply an extra low, low carb diet). It lowers insulin levels to more of a basal rate, discouraging fat storage and encouraging fat burning.

John