Laura asked this question about The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss:
Dr. Fung if you revise this book can you include a chapter on emotional eating? A lot of the advice was matter-of-fact like I can just flip a switch & won't crave ice cream anymore. Sometimes it IS that simple (e.g. I am fasting more than ever; it really hasn't been nearly as hard as my brain made it out to be.) In a general sense there's an emotional attachment to food that I feel was overlooked in the book. Thanks.
Danny McCaffrey Eat more fat? I think that's what Fung or Taubes would say.

Because "emotional eating" only came about as an explanation after the failure of Calories …more
Eat more fat? I think that's what Fung or Taubes would say.

Because "emotional eating" only came about as an explanation after the failure of Calories In/Out and the increasing obesity epidemic. Rather than take a critical look at CiCo the moral and behavorial explanations were invented such as emotional eating and the obese are lazy. Neither of which I believe anymore.

It's addiction. And all the ups and downs that come with the drug addiction of sugar. You eat sugar, it feels good. Then you crash. Feel hungry and blue. And eat more. That's the cycle of "emotional eating", but sugar is the problem (and lack of adequate essential fats). Not the emotions.

Fat turns off the switch that craves sugar. Is satisfying. And regulates hormones including those involving mood. Cut out sugar and eat more fat. (less)
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Canoebeast You just don't understand what emotional eating is. A person needs some soothing in life. For some, food for that purpose has been ingrained from a ve ...more
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Petra Valjan I think emotional eating is one of the things that re-enforces mechanisams that lay behind obesity. And obesity /insuline resistance itself than re-en ...more
Sep 21, 2021 03:43AM · flag
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