" Skillful marketing has made carbohydrate consumption a religion among athletes,” he’d fume. “They believe that you cannot get energy from anywhere but carbs.” The same foods Noakes had assured people would make them stronger and faster were a slow-acting poison making them fatter, weaker, and more prone to heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, and dementia. "

― Christopher McDougall , Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance