![]() Repeatedly eating carbohydrates causes chronically high insulin levels and the steady accumulation of fat.įung stresses the importance of fasting to lower insulin levels enough to begin using body fat for energy. Insulin is more importantly a fat storage hormone that blocks the burning of fat and causes excess sugar to be turned into fat through lipogenesis. 2 With all food consumption, especially carbohydrates, insulin is secreted to drive blood sugar into cells. 1 Fung is a nephrologist by training and runs the Intensive Dietary Management Program at the University of Toronto.įung formulated a new understanding of obesity by developing the argument that obesity is a hormonal illness of excess insulin. He is famous for postulating that with complex problems, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions is usually correct. ![]() William of Ockham (1287-1347) was an English friar and philosopher. ![]() ![]() Jason Fung, MD uses Ockham’s razor to si mplify the management of type 2 diabetes. Publication Information: Vancouver, Canada, Greystone Books, 2018, 296 pp., $22.95 ![]()
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