We have to understand that our body is designed to survive and it is capable to outsmart ourselves. Calorie expenditure depends on basal metabolic rate (breathing, maintaining body normal function), thermogenic of food, our activity, and exercise that we barely can count it accurately. Unfortunately, it is impossible to count daily the ways our body spend calories. Logically, decreasing our calories intake works only if the number of calories out remains constant. Most people holding on tightly on basic formula in diet: deficit calorie.

What we know about obesity all this time is mostly wrong 1. Here, I summarize the most outstanding insight and tips from The Obesity Code. We didn’t lack resources or willpower we lacked knowledge of and a framework for understanding obesity.

Fung counts on hormonal problem as the main suspect of obesity. In this book, Fung informs the reader that the issue behind obesity is not laying down critically on caloric imbalance. Thus, Fung would like to share his framework to understand and deal with it in The Obesity Code. By the time we find the way, we find the harder challenge to lose more weight or even just to maintain it.Īs a doctor who has experience of treating patients with type 2 diabetes, Jason Fung believes that the reason we cannot lose weight is because we do not have the sufficient knowledge about obesity. Fung explains how to use intermittent fasting to break the cycle of insulin resistance and reach a healthy weight-for good.Dealing with overweight body and find a way to lose it is hard. In addition to his five basic steps, a set of lifelong habits that will improve your health and control your insulin levels, Dr. Jason Fung sets out an original, robust theory of obesity that provides startling insights into proper nutrition.

In this highly readable and provocative book, Dr.

“Fung zeroes in on why insulin resistance has become so prevalent and offers specific outside-the-box solutions that have emerged as the key to maximizing health.”Īuthor of Keto Clarity and Cholesterol Clarity Read it to understand why the world became fat, how to reverse the epidemic-and how to stay thin yourself.” “Not only full of insights, but also surprisingly funny. 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. Why your body’s own insulin is the key to controlling your weightĮverything you believe about how to lose weight is wrong.

The obesity code