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I will be eternally grateful to Dr. Fung for giving me the tools to cure my daughter and better serve my patients. I read this directly after reading “Wheat Belly” by cardiologist William Davis. However, whilst I thought that book presented a good case, on occasion Dr Davis did seem to reach a bit with his hypothesis (although he tended to qualify his statements when he did) and it was clear there was more to the diabesity epidemic than his analysis allowed.
Everything you believe about how to lose weight is wrong. Weight gain and obesity are driven by hormones—in everyone—and only by understanding the effects of insulin and insulin resistance can we achieve lasting weight loss. Mattson has also researched the protective benefits of fasting to neurons. If you don’t eat for 10–16 hours, your body will go to its fat stores for energy, and fatty acids called ketones will be released into the bloodstream. This has been shown to protect memory and learning functionality, says Mattson, as well as slow disease processes in the brain. [5] Dr. Fung really downplays exercise in terms of weight loss but agrees that it helps with stress reduction and mood. I have a hard time believing that exercise doesn’t have much to do with weight loss. I know that the foods and beverages we consume are far more important than exercise, but when I first quit my day job and went freelance, I lost fifteen pounds without trying. I was thirty-three years old and down to my high school weight. In high school, I was dancing two hours a day. The only change I made as an adult is that, without have an eight-to-five job, I was able to walk for 45 minutes a day in addition to my normal workouts three or four days a week. That little bit of extra exercise made the difference. Hi Formerly, yup, Mom didn’t know any better – mine either. Which reinforces my point about obesity a few decades ago: not much of it, yet the food was not so great. I rarely touch any of that stuff these days – certainly not Hostess Cupcakes, which I believe are not made anymore.
Fung shows that obesity is highly heritable, with up to 70% of variation in obesity explained by genes. Yet, as he also points out, and as I’ve argued with many people who ought to know better, the obesity epidemic arose within a single generation, so genes can’t account for it. No, it’s something in our environment. Eggs – Inaccurately demonized due to cholesterol concerns, eggs are in fact incredibly healthy. They can be enjoyed in many ways, including scrambled, over easy, sunny side up, hard-boiled, soft-boiled, poached, etc.
His claim about breakfast was rather alarming, because this is a rather controversial topic for many people. But Dr. Fung claims you can skip right over breakfast—though you can have coffee or tea or water—and add it to your “fasting hours” and be just fine for weight loss. What many people find is that they are starving mid-morning if they do not eat breakfast which causes them to slip up and eat something unhealthy. But I suppose enough water could keep you feeling full until lunch, even if it takes you to the restroom a lot. Dr. Fung says: Silver said one of the concerns related to short-term periods of rapid weight loss is that what is lost is mostly made up of water and glycogen rather than fat.Dr. Jason Fung's explanation of insulin resistance and the accompanying insulin model of obesity is original, brilliant and game changing." Unfortunately, he seems to have hoisted himself on his own petard. He lambastes others for recommending things that are not evidence-based, but then his big advice is to fast, whereas the evidence indicates that fasting doesn't work any better than calorie restriction: " Alternate-day fasting did not produce superior adherence, weight loss, weight maintenance, or cardioprotection vs daily calorie restriction." http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai...
Real food vs. processed food will help you maintain your weight loss over the long run. To Exercise or Not BMJ Case Reports 2018: Therapeutic use of intermittent fasting for people with type 2 diabetes as an alternative to insulin Articles The Obesity Code is just one version of an intermittent-fasting program. There have been many of them created, but their concepts are all based on the same health principles. The Obesity Code gives a pretty basic overview of what foods are allowed while going through this diet, although it does not offer a specific eating plan. Many of these foods everyone already knows are good for your overall health, so this list did not come as much of a surprise to me. I started on the diet myself and found similar results with the exception of my cheat day...maybe because of my age, I do not get into ketoses for days after my cheat day which slows down my weight loss. I have still managed to lose 16 pounds in 3 weeks effortlessly with the exception of the 2 day sugar hangover like my daughter experienced. I have since found a product that will put you into ketoses in a day, but it is very expensive and the taste is...not so great. I use it once a week and it allows me to have that cheat meal once a week without sacrificing my progress.Dr. Fung’s rich, informative book does a thorough job in demolishing CICO and other commonly held ideas in the field of obesity research. He meticulously describes how we’ve gotten so much wrong, what the real answers are, and how to implement genuine solutions for weight loss and the obesity epidemic. How obesity became epidemic
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