The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (The Wellness Code)

In addition, the benefit of exercise has a natural upper limit. You cannot make up for dietary indiscretions by increasing exercise. You can’t outrun a poor diet. Furthermore, more exercise is not always better. Exercise represents a stress on the body. Small amounts are beneficial, but excessive amounts are detrimental.

The organ meats tend to be the fattiest parts of the animal. By focusing almost exclusively on the muscles of animals for food, we are preferentially eating protein rather than fat.

The increase in life expectancy from 1900 to 1950 reinforced the perception of a coronary-disease epidemic. For a white male, the life expectancy in 1900 was fifty years.7 By 1950, it had reached sixty-six years, and by 1970, almost sixty-eight years. If people were not dying of tuberculosis, then they would live long enough to develop their heart

The low-fat diet was a complete failure.

All foods, not just carbohydrates, stimulate insulin. Thus, all foods can cause weight gain. And hence we get major confusion with calories. High-protein foods can cause weight gain—not due to their caloric content, but rather to their insulin-stimulating effects. If carbohydrates are not the only or even the major stimulus to insulin, then restric

This is the ancient secret. This is the cycle of life. Fasting follows feasting. Feasting follows fasting. Diets must be intermittent, not steady. Food is a celebration of life.

Be aware that the term “pure olive oil” often denotes refined oils. Extra-virgin olive oil is unrefined, contains fruity undertones, and it meets certain quality standards. The health benefits of olive oil have long been recognized.

Removing protein and fat in the diet may lead to overconsumption. There are natural satiety hormones (peptide YY, cholecystokinin) that respond to protein and fat. Eating pure carbohydrate does not activate these systems and leads to overconsumption (the second-stomach phenomenon).

Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset during the holy month of Ramadan. The prophet Muhammad also encouraged fasting every week on Mondays and Thursdays. Ramadan differs from many fasting protocols in that fluids, in addition to food, are forbidden, so practitioners of this particular fast undergo a period of mild dehydration. Further, since eating i