We have been reading Jason Fung's "The Complete Guide to Fasting" ($9.99 Amazon download). He is a physician and has several videos on YouTube. If you couple his message in his Complete Guide with the TED talk by Sarah Hallberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da1vvigy5tQ,
you can see some interesting things.
Hallberg's talk is entitled "Reversing Type 2 Diabetes Starts with Ignoring the Guidelines." I am often interested when reputable people advocate ignoring established thinking. There have been times over the past 150 years when common sense, conclusions based on new discoveries and accepted thinking have been found to be in strong need of revision or discarding. I am confident that humans are going to see more and more instances where they have been wrong in the conclusions and need to change their thinking in the coming decades. It may be hard to believe but the whole tribe is slowly getting smarter and more careful.
Both Fung and Hallberg explain a common set of steps which amount to putting people on the path of worsening their problem. One of the most basic parts of the problem is the common sense idea that one should not eat fat. Fat has the most calories so if you are trying to lose weight, it seems smart to not eat fat. However, most of us have bodies that do not make fat from fat, most calories or not. Several decades ago, the idea was to eat less fat. Fat is often flavorful so removing it can make a food less tasty and less satisfying. How about adding sugar? Just what we don't need!
