Dr. Jason Fung gives his top three intermittent fasting tips based on his clinical experience with real patients. Fasting is simple, but not always easy, and these fasting tips may help you stick with it to lose weight.
Hyperglycemia may be the hallmark of diabetes, but does not cause most of the morbidity. Blood glucose is fairly easily controlled by medication, but this does not prevent the long-term complications. Despite blood glucose control, damage occurs to virtually every organ system. It would be difficult to find a single organ system NOT affected by…
Fasting has benefits ranging from weight lost to reduction in medications required for type 2 diabetes and hypertension (high blood pressure), but it does have some short-term side effects. These unwanted consequences of fasting are due to the body transitioning from sugar burning to fat burning mode. I always tell patients to think about their…
Recently, Denise Minger wrote a thought provoking post “In Defense of Low Fat”. Denise is the author of a book called “Death by Food Pyramid” and came to fame writing a very thorough analysis of the China Study, which many people, (myself included) thought was far, far superior to the original analysis by the author…
Have you eaten a loaf of garlic bread, a bowl of pasta, and a dish of pistachio gelato and still felt hungry? Have you come home from dinner and then ate a bag of popcorn in secret to satiate you before bed? You’re not alone. I hear these stories from people every day, and I’ve…
Controlling hunger is crucial to weight loss. How do you rein in hunger? We all think that eating more or eating more often will prevent hunger, but is this really true? Standard dietary advice is to eat 6 or 7 small meals per day with the hope that this will stave off hunger and prevent…
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