The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (Why Intermittent Fasting Is the Key to Controlling Your Weight)

FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR DR. JASON FUNG: The landmark book that may be helping thousands of people lose weight for good.

Harness the power of intermittent fasting for lasting weight loss.

Understand the science of weight gain and insulin resistance.

Stop suffering and ditch calorie counting, yoyo diets, and over the top exercise.

In this highly readable book, Dr. Jason Fung, long regarded as the founder of intermittent fasting, sets out an original theory of obesity and weight gain. He reveals that the whole lot you have been told about lose weight is mistaken: weight gain is driven by hormones, and only by working out the effects of insulin and insulin resistance are we able to achieve lasting weight loss.

Dr. Fung shares five basic steps to controlling your insulin for better health. And he explains use intermittent fasting to damage the cycle of insulin resistance and reach a healthy weight—permanently.