Punchline first: Basically don’t eat any (ultra processed) foods that have INDUSTRIAL ingredients, are ADVERTISED or come in PACKAGES! See the prior blog on processed food. Processed food like substances are often subsidized by the government and have led to rising rates of obesity. Even though you eat vegan food, if it is processed, it…
Tag: obesity
food addiction
Nora Wolkow is the world’s foremost authority on addiction. In this talk she talks about food addiction. Neal Barnard did a great talk that started with “how to magnetize a baby?” Sugar addicts lose their cravings when they are exposed to naloxone, an opiate antagonist. This suggests that sugar addiction works along the same pathways…
processed people
If you don’t want to watch the whole video, the following quotes in the video summarize it: “Americans need to be challenged to think about what they eat.” “Health is not the absence of illness, it is the presence of well-being.” “Goal is to live until you die, not to start a slow process of…
the obesity code
Well written book by Jason Fung, MD. Fung describes obesity as a chronic multi-factorial disease just like all other Western diseases. All diets work. And then they don’t work. The body like all biological systems likes homeostasis and reverts to the mean. He starts with a lot of data proving that obesity is a hormonal,…
sugar, the bitter truth
This is an interesting talk by Dr. Robert Lustig, endocrinologist at UCSF If you don’t want to sit through a 90 minute video, here is a condensed 30 minute version: