The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (Why Intermittent Fasting Is the Key to Controlling Your Weight)

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Greystone Books, Mar 3, 2016 - Health & Fitness - 296 pages

FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR DR. JASON FUNG: The landmark book that is helping thousands of people lose weight for good.

Harness the power of intermittent fasting for lasting weight loss.

Understand the science of weight gain and insulin resistance.

Stop suffering and ditch calorie counting, yoyo diets, and excessive exercise.

In this highly readable book, Dr. Jason Fung, long considered the founder of intermittent fasting, sets out an original theory of obesity and weight gain. He reveals that everything you've been told about how to lose weight is wrong: weight gain is driven by hormones, and only by understanding the effects of insulin and insulin resistance can we achieve lasting weight loss.

Dr. Fung shares five basic steps to controlling your insulin for better health. And he explains how to use intermittent fasting to break the cycle of insulin resistance and reach a healthy weight—permanently.

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Contents

Whats Wrong with Our Diet?
5
How Obesity Became an Epidemic
9
The CalorieReduction Error
29
The Exercise Myth
48
A New Model of Obesity
69
Cortisol
89
Insulin Resistance The Major Player
107
The Social Phenomenon of Obesity
127
Carbohydrates and Protective Fiber
175
Protein
188
Fat Phobia
201
The Solution Chapter 19 What to Eat
215
When to Eat
235
Sample Meal Plans with Fasting Protocols
252
Fasting A Practical Guide
256
Meditation and Sleep Hygiene to Reduce Cortisol
266

Childhood Obesity
145
The Deadly Effects of Fructose
157
The Diet Soda Delusion
168
Endnotes
270
Index
303
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About the author (2016)

Dr. Jason Fung is a New York Times-bestselling author whose books include The Obesity Code, The Diabetes Code, The Obesity Code Cookbook, The PCOS Plan, Life in the Fasting Lane, and The Complete Guide to Fasting. Dr. Fung completed medical school at the University of Toronto and a fellowship in nephrology at the University of California. Dr. Fung is also the co-founder of The Fasting Method, a program to help people lose weight and reverse Type 2 Diabetes naturally with fasting. He lives in Toronto.

Timothy Noakes is Professor of Exercise and Sports Science at the University of Cape Town, a marathon runner, and the author of the bestseller The Lore of Running. After discovering research supporting a high fat, low carb diet as the healthiest option for many people, he started the Noakes Foundation in 2012, and has dedicated his life to opening people's eyes to the myth of low-fat eating and the nutritional and environmental crisis it has led us to.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (Why Intermittent Fasting Is the Key to Controlling Your Weight)
Volume 1 of The Code Series
AuthorDr. Jason Fung
ContributorTimothy Noakes
PublisherGreystone Books, 2016
ISBN1771641274, 9781771641272
Length296 pages
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Health & Fitness / Diet & Nutrition / Diets
Health & Fitness / Diet & Nutrition / Food Content Guides
Health & Fitness / Diet & Nutrition / Nutrition
Health & Fitness / Diet & Nutrition / Weight Loss
Health & Fitness / Reference
Medical / Endocrinology & Metabolism
  
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