Jason Fung is a quack
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no I was serious about how great fasting is, sorry english is not my native language, so some stuff may get lost in translation with my botched grammar
I agree with most of what you said in your last post, I think is human nature to get entangled with the details of the process, trying to understand everything and we can miss the big picture
I think one important thing, a very important thing actually , is that whatever dietary intervention you are going to do to restore health/lose weight, it has to get to a point where you are smooth sailing, sort of effortless(long term), you have to find a way to go through your day, not being hungry and truly enjoying your meals
I mean some sort of struggle at the very beginning is expected obviously, but if as the weeks pass by and you are still feeling deprived, thinking about food all the time, HUNGRY, going through bouts of binges every now and then,
you may want to go back to the drawing board because if you continue the same trajectory you are going to fail, you cant beat hunger/feelings of deprivation long term...0 -
I'm at a point where I don't get that hungry and I don't think of food much and I can eat tell satisfied and stay at the same weight (very slow at losing though). I can only be this way with exercise also. If I eat to satiety for 2 or more meals, I will gain weight if I'm not exercising. If I only do one meal, I will lose whether I exercise or not.
To be young again! I was always hungry then and ate all I wanted and then some and could not gain weight. My metabolism must have been very high. If I didn't exercise, still the same thing. Age 16, 6/1", 145lbs says my drivers license that I still have.
Jason Fung is a big fasting advocate!0 -
He lost me when he said, "It's the insulin, stupid". I think he should more clearly acknowledge that it's the insulin RESISTANCE that is a problem.0
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He lost me when he said, "It's the insulin, stupid". I think he should more clearly acknowledge that it's the insulin RESISTANCE that is a problem.
The only reason that insulin resistance is a problem is it leads to high insulin levels which are the problem. I think he is correct.1 -
I think Fung is quite clear about it when he says excessive insulin causes insulin resistance.
Of course the excess insulin is caused by too frequently eating the wrong kinds of foods which eventually causes cells to become resistant.0 -
insulin resistance is caused by excess saturated fat in places it shouldn't be (liver, muscle etc), when you gain weight by eating excess calories the fat spills over to these places and becomes toxic
I wish Dr Fung put his theory to the test and eat 10 000 calories a day of pure lard that way he can remain in ketosis so we can watch in real time his body blow up and become morbidly obese
the ultimate insulinogenic food diet(white rice +table sugar+fruit) reversing kidney, heart failure, and morbid obesity
isn't Dr Fung a kidney doc? he should know better haha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQb5Fe6hZXw&t=89s 1 -
My own experience, after 15 years of low carb (less than 25g carbs), is that my hba1c kept climbing to 5.8 weight crept on. Switched to HCLF & weight dropped along with hba1c. My insulin had to be really high then. Ate lots of potatoes. But all markers are better. I would agree that fat in the cells is the problem. Lots of theories about how that happens, but high insulin without that confounder doesn't appear to be a problem. All the WFPB docs say the same.0
