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Dr. Jason Fung - 'The Aetiology of Obesity'

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Assumes interest and some biology. Education, not medical advice.

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Dr. Jason Fung discusses the hormonal regulation of weight, arguing that insulin resistance, not just calories, drives obesity.

Dr. Jason Fung completed medical school and internal medicine at the University of Toronto before finishing his nephrology fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles at the Cedars-Sinai hospital. He now has a practice in Ontario, Canada where he uses his Intensive Dietary Management program to help all sorts of patients, but especially those suffering from the two big epidemics of modern times: obesity and type 2 diabetes. Dr. Fung uses innovative solutions to these problems, realising that conventional treatments are not that effective in helping people.

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What people say. Recommended as an informative and scientific presentation on how hormones regulate fat storage and the limitations of calorie counting.

anindhain Hacker News • Recommends

On “Sugar industry withheld possible evidence of cancer link 50 years ago”

Refined sugar is the worst and refined carbohydrates are not that much better. I found that Dr. Fung's book and videos are the most informative and most scientific explanations of these concepts 1. 1 link to this video
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On “Yes, drinking more water may help you lose weight”

Calories aren't equal, otherwise you'd feel sated for the day with 2000 calories of sugar (spoilers: you don't). Every year, we're finding out how much we still don't know about the body regulates our fat stores via hormones. Dr. Jason Fung is a leading researcher on this ( link to this video )
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On “Yes, drinking more water may help you lose weight”

I’d refer you the research of Dr. Jason Fung or Dr. Robert Lustig, for example: link to this video Here’s an article on keto from a medical journal link Even the experts debating here aren’t contesting the role of insulin in weight loss, but rather the secondary effects like those on LDL. Here in turn is a talk by a doctor from UC Berkeley explaining more about that: link From what I can tell, the sole focus on calories is the result of early misunderstandings and oversimplification of biochemistry in 1980s nutritional science. Anecdotally, I did a 3 month experiment where I increased my calories (lots of olive oil, avocado, nuts, butter, etc) but consuming almost no carbs (and mostly carbs from ve…
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On “Effect of Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet versus High-Carb, Low-Fat Diet”

Weight isn't the product of calories in vs out, that's an overly simplistic model that doesn't account for the effect of hormones on how we metabolize different compounds and nutrients. This area of nutrition science is nascent and unsettled, and fraught with research funded by parties with conflicts of interest, but here's for example a pretty good talk that discusses some of the research link to this video
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On “You're Not Losing Fat Because You're Eating Too Damn Much”

People get very heated and religious about this topic so I'm hesitant to bring it up but there are strong arguments that this model is overly simplistic and that the types of food you eat are strongly related to hormonal changes that dramatically affect your metabolism and fat storage. Here's a good talk by a doctor, heavy on research, that's a decent introduction: link to this video
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