Dr. Jason Fung

So there's this whole thing about breakfast.

Now you will always break your fast.

Think about the actual word, right?

Break fast.

It's the meal that breaks your fast, which tells you that in the English language, we accept that your body should have a fasting period every day.

Why?

There's a period of time that you're supposed to feed

You eat, insulin goes up, you store calories.

Then there's supposed to be a period of time that you fast.

That's after dinner until the next day's meal, which is breakfast, right?

So say you stop eating at 6 p.m., you eat at 8 a.m.

That's a 14-hour period where your body...

is not eating, it's fasting, and therefore it's gonna use calories, right?

But the word breakfast tells us that that's actually a normal pattern, this normal cyclical pattern.

You feed, then you fast, right?

If you eat all the time, your body's just gonna store energy and never have a period to burn energy.

So, okay, well, what's gonna happen?

You're gonna gain weight.