The Obesity Code - Summarized for Busy People: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss: Based on the Book Jason Fung

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Unravel the decades-old mysteries of weight loss in Dr. Jason Fung’s groundbreaking book: The Obesity Code.

Dr. Jason Fung, a Canadian physician and nephrologist, spent 20 years in the field of medicine treating obese and diabetic patients only to realize he wasn’t really treating their illnesses – he was merely treating their symptoms.

The Obesity Code provides a comprehensive description of the hows and whys of both weight gain and weight loss. In his compelling book, Dr. Fung speaks the unspoken truth about diets, and challenges the long-held beliefs about the relation of caloric intake to weight loss.

Step off that scale, take a seat, and pay attention as Dr. Fung’s The Obesity Code exposes the secret behind the obesity epidemic: insulin.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: XinXii
• Release date: Jun 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9783969317280

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Introduction

Dr. Jason Fung is a physician and nephrologist based in Canada. You may wonder how a kidney specialist could possibly make unprecedented discoveries on nutrition. After all, everything that goes in makes all the difference in what comes out.

While it is true that dialysis provides comfort for its patients and indeed adds a few more years to their life span, it dawned on Dr. Fung that dialysis merely treats the symptoms. He also realized that the conventional medical practice does nothing to address the primary causes of his patients’ kidney problems. Dr. Fung identified that a great number of his dialysis patients were type II diabetics. This meant a direct correlation between the diet of his patients and their kidney failure. By the time the dialysis patients were received by Dr. Fung, there was nothing he could do. Dialysis, no matter how long or how many, could not undo the damage done to their kidneys.  

Dr. Fung wanted to make a change in whatever way he can. In his extensive research, he discovered that this was not the nutritional problem being treated in its final stages when remedial therapy was no longer possible. He discloses for doctors to admit that they are only addressing symptoms of an illness and not the cause itself makes them feel inadequate. Dr. Fung also states that being accustomed to medicine prescription means standing behind cognitive dissonance. Their prescribed medicine fails, and instead it is the patient who is found at fault. One may wonder how a patient could be held liable when in truth, no one wakes up one day and decides to abuse their kidneys in the hopes having a machine do their body’s dirty work.

Dr. Fung realized that blaming the patients for their life choices won’t contribute to solving the existing nutritional problem. He recognized that preventing illnesses that eventually lead to kidney failure meant addressing the root of the problem: identifying and correcting the present life conditions which are conducive to kidney failure itself. Looking at the bigger picture, this also meant educating both children and young adults to make proper nutritional choices.

The solution seems simple enough, doesn’t it?

However easy it may seem, no one seems to agree about the obesity epidemic and what must be done about it. This epidemic is recognized worldwide yet