Summary of Jason Fung, Eve Mayer & Megan Ramos's Life in the Fasting Lane

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I was always afraid of science, and that’s why I was fat for as long as I was. But something changed, and I became curious about what was going on in my body. I learned that my body can either be focused on storing energy or burning energy, but not both at the same time. When I eat less often, my body has more time to burn energy and fat.
#2 Fasting is a great way to cleanse your body and give it the nutrients it needs. It is worth exploring whether you want to lose three pounds or three hundred pounds, or simply improve your health. The best scientific proof you can get is trying it and feeling the changes in your own body.
#3 Many diseases are caused in part by excess body fat. Losing weight increases your good cholesterol levels and lowers your triglyceride levels, which helps reduce the risk of those same diseases.
#4 When we eat, the pancreas secretes the hormone insulin, which signals to the rest of the body that food is now available for energy conversion. The body stores food energy in two different ways: as sugar and as body fat.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Diététique
• diététique
• Diet

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 21 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669356578
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Jason Fung and Eve Mayer & Megan Ramos's Life in the Fasting Lane
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was always afraid of science, and that’s why I was fat for as long as I was. But something changed, and I became curious about what was going on in my body. I learned that my body can either be focused on storing energy or burning energy, but not both at the same time. When I eat less often, my body has more time to burn energy and fat.

#2

Fasting is a great way to cleanse your body and give it the nutrients it needs. It is worth exploring whether you want to lose three pounds or three hundred pounds, or simply improve your health. The best scientific proof you can get is trying it and feeling the changes in your own body.

#3

Many diseases are caused in part by excess body fat. Losing weight increases your good cholesterol levels and lowers your triglyceride levels, which helps reduce the risk of those same diseases.

#4

When we eat, the pancreas secretes the hormone insulin, which signals to the rest of the body that food is now available for energy conversion. The body stores food energy in two different ways: as sugar and as body fat.

#5

Insulin is the hormone that signals the body to convert food into energy. It also regulates the body’s glucose levels by helping to extract glucose from the blood and store it in the liver or body fat.

#6

If you are diabetic, your symptoms may include increased thirst, fatigue, blurred vision, hunger even though you’re eating more than you normally do, frequent urination, tingling, pain, or numbness in your hands or feet. But you may not have any symptoms.

#7

Fasting helps regulate your hormones, and it’s more than a diet; it resets your body’s internal controls, allowing it to burn the right amount of energy to keep you alive.

#8

Our bodies have two states: the fed state, when we have eaten and insulin is high, and the fasted state, when we have not eaten and insulin is low. If we elevate insulin levels and keep them persistently high by eating constantly, the body will stay in the fed state.

#9

The key to the energy balance equation of Calories In, Calories Out is not the number of calories we eat and the exercise we do. The key is to control hunger and maintain BMR. In order to do that, we must eat foods that increase satiety hormones and keep insulin low.

#10

Fasting can help improve many different conditions, such as diabetes, obesity, and blood sugar regulation. It can also have significant benefits for your brain, mood, and risk of cancer.

#11

If you’re concerned that fasting will make you mentally slow and foggy, don’t worry. The brain is a resilient organ that doesn’t get affected negatively by fasting.

#12

There are many links between fasting and cancer prevention, which I’ll list briefly: obesity, breast cancer cells with high levels of insulin and death without it, and esophageal, colon, rectal, liver, gallbladder, pancreatic, kidney, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, multiple myeloma, breast, stomach, prostate, cervical, uterine, and ovarian cancers.

#13

Metabolic syndrome is a group of conditions that include abdominal obesity, hyperglycemia, high triglycerides, low HDL, and hypertension. It is caused by an excess of insulin.

#14

Fasting can also improve your mood, as it can alleviate and even reverse the symptoms of depression, anxiety, and other health problems. It can also help you lose weight and get rid of excess water weight, which may lead to irritability.

#15

Overweight affects more than just your physical health, it also impacts your mental and emotional health. Because of the prevailing view that obesity is a personal shortcoming, people who are overweight are typically viewed as less desirable subordinates, co-workers, and bosses.

#16

The main problem with obesity is not a lack of willpower, but a failure of knowledge. You cannot make a decision about hunger and metabolism, the two main factors that cause weight gain, so obesity is not a personal failing.

#17

I used to believe that hunger was a bully that existed in my home, at work, and in my parents’ house. I believed that my willpower was nonexistent, and my body and mind were somehow broken. But as I got fatter and hungrier in my adult years, I just accepted that I was worse at dealing with hunger than other people.

#18

Hunger is temporary. It will not always go away if you give it enough food. Once I changed my way of eating and only saw the Hunger Bully four or five times a day, I began to simply notice it instead of feeling afraid of it.

#19

Hunger is a habit: when you reduce the frequency of when you eat, hunger soon goes away. Hunger is flexible: it will go away if you don’t eat when you become hungry. Hunger will go away if you don’t feed the Hunger Bully.

#20

We are designed to be hungry all the time. We’ve been conditioned to believe that the only thing that matters when it comes to weight loss is to consume fewer calories than we expend.