When a body is starving for sugar, ketones take over and help breakdown the next best source of energy: stored fat. The body produces ketones during starvation or fasting and also during long bouts of physical training. When your muscles are sore after strenuous exercise - ketones cause the pain.
Khaled Hosseini published The Kite Runner in 2003. By the end of 2005, it was a bestseller in the United States. It seemed readers couldn't get enough Hosseini's story about the troubled friendship between two Afghan boys.
Khaled Hosseini: 'If I could go back now, I'd take The Kite Runner apart'. The books interview: The author tells how his new novel And the Mountains Echoed is 'like a fairytale turned on its head'. Hermione Hoby. Saturday 1 June 2013 04.29 EDT First published on Saturday 1 June 2013 04.29 EDT.