The Obesity Code, by Jason Fung, MD
Bought on the advice of one of my doctors; I got my copy for only $6, including shipping. I'm usually pretty skeptical about diet books. I've seen too many piles of them on sale at garage sales. I've certainly never expended any money on them. From everything I've heard, the only sure way to lose weight is to eat less and exercise. But the doctor advised this one. Now, I don't think doctors have any supernatural insight about these things. But there were two things that make me more hopeful about this effort. One was that a casual flip led me to a quote saying basically, all diets work and all diets fail. On any diet you'll lose weight at first, and then you'll hit a plateau. Deficit eating (of healthy and monitored food of course), in other words, fasting, will logically lead to weight loss. The other is that Jimmy Akin has been advising just such a fasting diet to visible results.
Of course, I still have to read the thing, and then apply its' advice. And it's just the sort of reading that sends me to sleep. But I'm willing to give it a whirl. "His name is Fung, Dr. Fung! Capital F, little u, little n, little g! Dr. Fung!"
P.S. I'm not counting this as my monthly book.
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