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

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

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

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

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Overview

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Weight loss is hard, nevermind when you’re doing it on your own. This book, introducing the facets of intermittent fasting, is here to be your constant companion to sustainable weight loss, built around a better understanding of insulin and its effects on the body.

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781771641258
Publisher: Greystone Books
Publication date: 03/01/2016
Series: The Code Series , #1
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 296
Sales rank: 14,695
Product dimensions: 8.90(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii

Introduction 1

Part 1 The Epidemic

Chapter 1 How Obesity Became an Epidemic 9

Chapter 2 Inheriting Obesity 21

Part 2 The Calorie Deception

Chapter 3 The Calorie-Reduction Error 29

Chapter 4 The Exercise Myth 48

Chapter 5 The Overfeeding Paradox 57

Part 3 A New Model of Obesity

Chapter 6 A New Hope 69

Chapter 7 Insulin 78

Chapter 8 Cortisol 89

Chapter 9 The Atkins Onslaught 96

Chapter 10 Insulin Resistance: The Major Player 107

Part 4 The Social Phenomenon of Obesity

Chapter 11 Big Food, More Food and the New Science of Diabesity 127

Chapter 12 Poverty and Obesity 136

Chapter 13 Childhood Obesity 145

Part 5 What's Wrong with Our Diet?

Chapter 14 The Deadly Effects of Fructose 157

Chapter 15 The Diet Soda Delusion 168

Chapter 16 Carbohydrates and Protective Fiber 175

Chapter 17 Protein 188

Chapter 18 Fat Phobia 201

Part 6 The Solution

Chapter 19 What to Eat 215

Chapter 20 When to Eat 235

Appendix A Sample Meal Plans (with Fasting Protocols) 252

Appendix B Fasting: A Practical Guide 256

Appendix C Meditation and Sleep Hygiene to Reduce Cortisol 266

Endnotes 270

Index 303

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