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Thousands of books have been written about the latest and greatest diets that will help people lose weight and improve health. But a key element in any successful nutritional health program is a tried-and-true method that most people haven't thought about - yet it could be revolutionary for taking health to the next level. This ancient secret is fasting.

Fasting is not about starving oneself. When done right, it's an incredibly effective therapeutic approach that produces amazing results regardless of diet plan. In fact, Toronto-based nephrologist Dr. Jason Fung has used a variety of fasting protocols with more than 1,000 patients, with fantastic success. In The Complete Guide to Fasting, he has teamed up with international best-selling author and veteran health podcaster Jimmy Moore to explain what fasting is really about, why it's so important, and how to fast in a way that improves health. Together, they make fasting as a therapeutic approach both practical and easy to understand.

The Complete Guide to Fasting explains:

Why fasting is actually good for health Who can benefit from fasting (and who won't) The history of fasting The various ways to fast: intermittent, alternate-day, and extended fasting What to expect when starting to fast How to track progress while fasting The weight loss effects of fasting How to ward off potential negative effects from fasting

Reviewer: sbmike
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Like A Magic Button for Weight Loss. Read the Book... It Will Change Your Life!
Review: Wow, I found the magic button for weight loss. After having limited success with the whole field of dieting options I stumbled across a talk on youtube by Dr Jason Fung talking about fasting. After the video I searched and ended up buying the audio book and the hard copy. The concept initially terrified me for some reason and when talking to friends who fasted I just shook my head and though there is no way I could do that. One of the fasting approaches recommended however seemed pretty easy. Have dinner and fast for 24 hours, having dinner the next day. I have done that accidentally at times! Well after a 6 days of doing this, I lost 10 lbs (40 to go) and realized that what I thought was breakfast or lunchtime hunger was just my body reminding me of a long held habit of eating I have had. It is incredible that over such a short fast you can turn off insulin based fat storage, and start burning fat. A side benefit is that increased metal clarity occurs fairly quickly and offers additional incentive to fast. Also my moderately elevate blood pressure is getting back to normal. Leads me to think that we have a obesity problem in the country because people eat 3 meals a day and insulin based fat storage never turns off. This is another area where the industrial food business exploits us in their marketing and so called guidelines. I am now convinced there is absolutely no need for 3 meals a day.Now the book recommends starting out the 24 hr fasting for a couple of days per week. I have decided to do it 5 or 6 times per week. I am pretty confident I can now get to any weight I want. I think the book is important in that it helps you break long held thoughts and misconceptions about eating and going without food. It also discusses other lengths of fasts that can range from 36 hour to weeks. It is so flexible you can do it anytime. And if I am fasting one day, and my friends invite me over for breakfast, or lunch no problem I will forget about fasting that day or have breakfast, but forget about lunch. In my opinion most people who have access to food have never experienced hunger, just mealtime urges. These urges are easy to identify and ignore after a few days (at least for me).I listened to the audio book first and then used the book for reinforcement for changing my thinking. There is quite a bit of repetition but this was necessary for me to truly break long held conventional thinking.Basically you are eating less food when only eating once per day. By having a long break between meals you body has time to get into fat burning mode. So while it seems like a magic button, it is not magic at all. You just have to forget about everything you have ever been taught or thought you knew about eating. This book is a great tool to change habits and conventional thinking.I will try to come back after I reach my goal weight and give an update. But I have no doubt that this is the solution that will allow me to control my weight to whatever level I choose. Read the book. It will change your life!

Reviewer: Doreen Benjamin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent book.
Review: This book is easy to read and written in a way to keep your interest. A lot of great information and helped me a lot!Highly recommend!

Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: This Changes Everything
Review: I now have to reconsider completely the advice I give my patients about eating for good health. I have always argued that diseases like type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome are diseases based in poor nutrition and therefore need to be addressed with modifications to nutrition and not with pills and injections. Dr Fung endorses this approach but his method of addressing this with fasting is not something I had seriously considered before as a viable treatment option. Somehow skipping meals seemed to go against everything I had taught myself about nutrition...as this is not a topic that is covered in any meaningful way in medical school.The book begins with introductions by the two authors. Dr Fung speaks of his experiences in treating patients and Mr Moore gives an account of his own experience with weight loss in general and fasting in particular. The prose is straightforward and easy to read. Throughout the book there are numerous personal testimonials from patients who have tried the various types of fasting.The authors present a compelling case for the various benefits of fasting beyond weight loss, such as improved cognitive function, better energy levels, heightened immunity and protection from the aberrant cell divisions that can lead to cancer. References to studies are provided if the reader wants to access a first hand account of research in this area.The subsequent chapters then provide information about the different types of intermittent fasting one can do, the benefits ( and challenges) of each type, and which type is best suited for the result one is aiming for. For example 12 hour fasting as a general practice is good for preventing diabetes and maintaining weight but is unlikely to result in dramatic weight loss. For weight loss, 24 hour fasts , done 2 or 3 times a week , are more effective. According to the authors fasts of longer duration can reverse diabetes and eliminate the need for insulin and other medications, but these need to be done with a doctor's supervision.The final chapters include recipes for low carb high fat meals, and the signature bone broth which is recommended to maintain electrolyte levels in the body while fasting.The ideas I found challenging included the following:1. Breakfast in the morning is not the most important meal of the day.2. Most hunger signals are conditioned reflexes and do not reflect an actual need for calorie intake3. Exercising during a fasting period can train your body to preferentially burn fat instead of sugar for energy...thus improving your endurance4. Eating in general and eating protein specifically will trigger insulin release which hinders weight loss. Hence the power of fasting in minimising insulin release.The proof of the pudding is in the eating, and after reading the book, I actually experimented on myself with the 12 hour fasting , 16:8 and an almost 24 hour fast. They were all quite manageable and did not need huge advance planning. In the past I have successfully used the South Beach diet to lose a few pounds . The South Beach diet requires a lot of effort and planning ahead to have the allowed foods at hand to eat for the phase 1 no carb segment of that diet. Fasting on the other hand only required some will power to wait out the urge to eat...and I did confirm for myself that hunger passes and craving for food goes away. Once the pattern was established, it was indeed as Dr Fung wrote, easier to just not eat for the set number of hours.I will need to read this book a few more times to fully assimilate all the concepts it discusses. It is a useful reference and practical guide not just for my own personal health management, but also to inform the advice I give my patients ,as a physician , on managing their weight and other ailments that have poor nutrition as the root cause.I would recommend this to anyone as a great introduction and reference for learning about the medical benefits of fasting, as well as how to implement the practice of fasting.

Reviewer: GeeGee
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: More people need to fast
Review: This is a great book for beginners

Reviewer: mtspace
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Glossy, Expansive, Feels Shallow.
Review: Jason Fung's book The Obesity Code is an absolute essential read for anyone who has ever been frustrated by the difficulties experienced by people trying to lose weight. It's a serious, well reasoned, well documented, well argued book on why diets fail; and what to do instead. It demolishes most of what physicians and lay people have assumed to be true about dieting for about two thousand years. To people with short attention spans and little interest in the scientific details it's might be a tough read.By contrast, this book is bright and shiny, rich with spot color, photos, tables, plans, and so on. It's definitely designed as a how-to book for people who just want to pick up a book and start fasting. I find this approach less compelling and less satisfying. I have been doing intermittent fasting successfully for a few years and I came away from this book thinking that had I used this book in making the decision whether to do it I might have not given it the consideration necessary to go ahead. My impression is that the author has not been quite so well served by his publisher as might have been the case.I am rating the book five stars because the information is accurate, well informed, well organized, and well expressed and that the ambitious graphic design of the book does bring it more appeal to those of us with short attention spans. It's a good production effort covering an interesting and important idea.

Reviewer: Flavio Corral
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This book is a high-quality, soft-cover, glossy-paper book with supreme clear-letters and detailed photographs and drawings.The content seems quite good, though I haven't started to fully read it, yet.

Reviewer: AS
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Very useful & practical book..highly recommend for anyone looking to get healthier and lose weight. Very doable..fasting made simple and easy.

Reviewer: Kjv
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Explains very clearly about health, food and body. Makes sense. Easy to follow.I like that you can take it as far as you like. My husband is more extreme he will and can fast longer. I not, I just want to improve my health, lower my sugar intake and give my body recovery time from sugar I do eat on a daily basis.You’ll find something that fits you in here.

Reviewer: MARY
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: As someone with Poly Cystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) I wish I had access to information like this years ago. I always knew carbs affected my body more than the average person but now I understand the real problem is insulin resistance. I have tried the whole exercise more, eat less plan, for decades and it just doesn’t work. Eating less makes me feel lousy, but strangely, when I fast for longer periods of time between meals, I feel good - really good. I have done low carb diets in the past with great results as far as weight loss, but I always fell back into heavy carb eating once again. I couldn’t sustain the diet, which pushed me back up to a high weight once again and put me at high risk for diabetes. (Women with PCOS are already at high risk for developing Type 2 diabetes) If you want to be able to keep eating junk food and processed food, don’t try fasting - you will feel awful going from high carbs to no carbs, and if you binge on chocolate you will get a killer headache when you fast. If you are willing to eat healthier foods as you begin intermittent fasting, you will find the whole process much easier to do. I have been more than 60 pounds overweight for thirty years, I have always been a binge eater and chocoholic, but the core of my eating has always been very healthy with lots of vegetables. I find that when I eat only healthy foods, and fast between meals, I feel much more satisfied and far less hungry - which makes this plan easier and easier to do as you stick with it. Out of everything I have tried over the years to lose weight I find intermittent fasting the most sustainable to do and the easiest to work into my life. The best part is that I am losing weight and I feel great. Everything about this plan provides positive reinforcement to keep you going - you see the numbers on the scale going down, you feel more clear headed, you feel more satisfied with less food, high carb foods aren’t so appealing anymore and joint pain disappears. You can even enjoy special occasions without having to stand back while everyone else enjoys the food - intermittent fasting helps you get back on track again quickly and easily without derailing you completely.Buy this book if you want to try intermittent fasting and buy The Obesity Code if you want to learn in much greater detail the science of weight gain and weight loss and why fasting helps. If you can only buy one of Dr. Fung’s books, I recommend this one. It will change your life!

Reviewer: elena
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Davvero completo ed estremamente interessante, concetti spiegati con chiarezza anche per chi non è madrelingua inglese. Da leggere dopo il precedente "il codice del dimagrimento" che approfondisce altrettanto bene i vari meccanismi che portano a sviluppare varie patologie e a come curarle.