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Dr. Jason Fung - 'The Aetiology of Obesity'

Low Carb Down Under · 681.2K views · 2016-06-24 · 37:32

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Dr. Jason Fung, a nephrologist, presents his view of the causes of obesity and type 2 diabetes, focusing on hormones such as insulin rather than calories alone. The talk draws on research and his Intensive Dietary Management program.

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HN commenters recommend it as a research-heavy introduction to how food type and hormones affect fat storage.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2017–2023

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Nutrition & diet scienceMedicine & infectious disease
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anindha · 2017-11 · Strong recommendation

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] [VIDEO]

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user3939382 · 2023-09 · Recommendation

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: [VIDEO]

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user3939382 · 2022-12 · Recommendation

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 [VIDEO]

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