The Obesity Code Cookbook. Jason Fung

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      introduction

      If you don’t eat, will you lose weight? Yes, of course you will. In this cook-

      book, I provide more than 100 recipes offering wonderful choices for

      when you do eat and delicious beverages for when you fast.

      pracTical FasTing FacTs and FaQs

      aS a heaLINg tradition, fasting has long met with success. For exam-

      ple, among the treatments prescribed and championed by Hippocrates

      of Kos (c. 460–c. 370 BC), who is widely considered the father of modern

      medicine, were the practice of fasting and the consumption of apple

      cider vinegar. He wrote, “To eat when you are sick, is to feed your ill-

      ness.” Consider the last time you had the flu. Probably the last thing you

      wanted to do was eat.

      Though fasting seems to be an instinctual and universal human

      response to multiple forms of illness, many people regard it with skepti-

      cism. Many fasting myths have been repeated so often they are accepted

      as truths.

      Consider the following popular beliefs:

      • Fasting will make you lose muscle/burn protein.

      • The brain needs glucose to function.

      • Fasting puts you in starvation mode/lowers basal metabolism.

      • Fasting will overwhelm you with hunger.

      • Fasting deprives the body of nutrients.

      • Fasting causes hypoglycemia.