Jason Fung

The Obesity Code (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 weightpermanently.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greystone Books
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781771641272
• Artikelnr.: 56796758

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Introduction
Part 1: The Epidemic
Chapter 1: How Obesity Became an Epidemic
Chapter 2: Inheriting Obesity
Part 2: The Calorie Deception
Chapter 3: The Calorie-Reduction Error
Chapter 4: The Exercise Myth
Chapter 5: The Overfeeding Paradox
Part 3: A New Model of Obesity
Chapter 6: A New Hope
Chapter 7: Insulin
Chapter 8: Cortisol
Chapter 9: The Atkins Onslaught
Chapter 10: Insulin Resistance: The Major Player
Part 4: The Social Phenomenon of Obesity
Chapter 11: Big Food, More Food and the New Science of Diabesity
Chapter 12: Poverty and Obesity
Chapter 13: Childhood Obesity
Part 5: What’s Wrong with Our Diet?
Chapter 14: The Deadly Effects of Fructose
Chapter 15: The Diet Soda Delusion
Chapter 16: Carbohydrates and Protective Fiber
Chapter 17: Protein
Chapter 18: Fat Phobia
Part 6: The Solution
Chapter 19: What to Eat
Chapter 20: When to Eat
Appendix A: Sample Meal Plans (with Fasting Protocols)
Appendix B: Fasting: A Practical Guide
Appendix C: Meditation and Sleep Hygiene to Reduce Cortisol
Endnotes
Index