Eating too much butter would supposedly cause our arteries to get “clogged up” with cholesterol like a dirty pipe.ĭr. The diet-heart hypothesis said that eating more saturated fat causes high cholesterol, which causes heart disease. Ancel Keys, who conducted the Seven Countries Study, where he found a correlation between eating more saturated fat and heart disease. Low Fat Was Wrong: Warnings against saturated fat accidentally accelerated the obesity epidemicįrom the 1970’s until very recently, eating healthy was about eating “low fat.” Eventually he found a different approach that did work, combining intermittent fasting and a diet of low carbs, healthy fats.ġ. At first, he tried giving patients the usual dieting advice, but that simply didn’t work. Fung decided to focus more on treating the root cause of his patient’s health problems-their obesity-rather than just the final symptoms. As a young doctor, he noticed the most common cause of chronic kidney disease was diabetes, and the most common cause of diabetes was obesity. Jason Fung, MD is a nephrologist (that is, a doctor specializing in kidney diseases) who lives and practices in Toronto, Canada. And don’t even get me started on the food pyramid they taught us in school, telling each child that it was healthy to eat tons of white bread and pasta every day! Who is Dr. Growing up, I always heard that people were mainly overweight because they didn’t run around enough.

For example, he says counting calories and physical exercise are relatively ineffective at helping us lose weight! A lot of it goes against commonly accepted weight loss advice. Personally, I found many of the ideas in The Obesity Code absolutely fascinating. The Obesity Code says people remain overweight not because of a lack of self control, but due to an imbalance in their hormones, specifically insulin. Why? Is it because of a lack of self-discipline or willpower? Maybe not…

The problem is that 6-12 months later, most people gain all that weight back. Fung, scientific studies prove most diets DO help us lose weight. We hear arguments like:īut according to Dr. In the world of nutrition advice, that is a shocking statement.īecause usually we hear nutrition experts arguing that one approach is “correct.” And if their way is right, the rest must be wrong and ineffective.

Dr jason fung's book the obesity code