Summary of Jason Fung's The Obesity Code: Key Takeaways & Analysis

Sleep deprivation—one of the leading causes of chronic stress—stimulates cortisol and decreases insulin sensitivity. By so doing, it dramatically increases the risk of weight gain, especially for people who sleep less than seven hours a night.

Increasing the time you take meals will keep insulin levels elevated and cause more weight gain than increasing your food portions.

you eat frequently—and, consequently, maintain your glycogen storage—the body has no need to burn fat, so it accumulates. In a normal balance, high levels of insulin stimulate the body

An obese mother is likely to give birth to an obese child, and an obese child is up to seventeen times more likely to grow into an obese adult, who will give birth to an obese child.

Exercise has a negligible effect on weight loss The human body

meal content and timing—go unaddressed.

Insulin directs fat accumulation and storage

fructose is only processed by the liver and cannot be used for energy. Some of the end products of fructose build up in liver cells, damaging

It’s no surprise that the increase of daily meals from three to six between the 1960s and 2014 coincided with an increase in obesity.