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Название: The Obesity Code Cookbook

Автор: Jason Fung

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Кулинария

Серия: The Wellness Code

isbn: 9781771644778

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      serious. The drugs, surgeries, and procedures weren’t doing any good.

      Why?

      The root cause of the entire problem was the weight. Their obesity

      was causing metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes, which then caused

      all their other health problems. Yet almost the entire system of modern

      medicine, with its pharmacopoeia, with its nanotechnology, with all the

      genetic wizardry, was focused myopically on the end problems.

      Nobody was treating the root cause. Even if we treated their kidney

      disease with dialysis, patients were still left with their obesity, type 2

      diabetes, and every other obesity-related complication. We needed to treat

      obesity. Instead, we were trying to treat the problems caused by obesity

      rather than obesity itself. This was the way that I, and virtually every

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      other doctor in North America, had been trained to practice medicine in

      this context. But it was not working.

      Figure 1: Standard Paradigm of Medical Treatment

      When people lose weight, their type 2 diabetes reverses course. Treat-

      ing the root cause of a patient’s type 2 diabetes is therefore the only

      logical solution to addressing this disease. If your car is leaking oil, the

      solution is not to buy more oil and mops to clean up the spilled oil. The

      solution is to find the leak and fix it. As medical professionals, we were

      guilty of ignoring the leak and simply mopping up the mess.

      If we could treat the obesity at the beginning (see figure 1), then

      type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome could not develop. You can’t

      develop diabetic kidney disease if you don’t have diabetes. You can’t

      develop diabetic nerve damage if you don’t have diabetes. It seems so

      obvious with hindsight.

      So, I had realized where we were going wrong. The problem was that

      I didn’t know how to change course; I didn’t know how to treat the obe-

      sity. Despite having worked for more than ten years in medicine, I found

      that my nutritional knowledge was rudimentary, at best. This realization

      sparked a decade-long odyssey and eventually led me to establish the

      Intensive Dietary Management (IDM) program (www.IDMprogram.com)

      and the Toronto Metabolic Clinic (www.torontometabolicclinic.com).

      Obesity

      Medical Treatment

      Metabolic Syndrome

      Type 2 Diabetes

      Heart Attacks

      Stroke

      Cancer

      Kidney Disease

      Blindness

      Amputation

      Nerve Damage

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      introduction

      Thinking seriously about the treatment of obesity, I realized there

      was one singularly important question to understand: What causes

      weight gain? That is, what is the root cause of weight gain and obesity?

      The reason we never think about this crucial question is that we think

      we already know the answer. We think that eating too many calories

      causes obesity. If this were true, then the solution to weight loss would

      be simple: Eat fewer calories.

      Figure 2: A More Effective Paradigm of Medical Treatment

      But we’ve done that already. Ad nauseam. For the last forty years, the

      only weight-loss advice has been to cut your calories and exercise more.

      This is the highly ineffective strategy called Eat Less, Move More. We

      have calorie counts on every food label. We have calorie-counting books.

      We have calorie-counting apps. We have calorie counters on our exercise

      machines. We’ve done everything humanly possible to count calories so

      that we could cut them. Has it worked? Have those pounds melted like a

      snowman in July? No. It sure sounds like it should work. But the empir-

      ical evidence, plain as a mole on the tip of your nose, is that it does not

      work.

      From a human physiology standpoint, the entire calorie story col-

      lapses like a house of cards when you look closely at it. The body does

      not respond to “calories.” There are no calorie receptors on cell surfaces.

      The body has no ability to know how many calories you are eating or

      Obesity

      Medical

      Treatment

      Metabolic Syndrome

      Type 2 Diabetes

      Heart Attacks

      Stroke

      Cancer

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