Dr. Jason Fung

It's a totally different toolkit because if you're eating because you're depressed,

The answer is not eat fewer calories.

The answer is deal with the depression, right?

Or if you're eating because you're stressed, the answer is deal with the stress, not eat fewer calories.

There's no way that the calorie sort of obsession is going to work because you haven't identified the root cause of the problem.

It all lies in the hunger.

You have to focus on the hunger.

Because otherwise the calories are downstream.

That's the reason that you have to focus in on sort of root causes.

And that's why I wrote the book, The Hunger Code.

It's actually the first book I've written in about six years.

And it's because there is so much new research into the ultra processed food question about food addictions.

There's just so much new stuff that I felt, hey, nobody's talking about this in an organized sort of way, right?

I mean, people talk about calories endlessly, but you got to go beyond the calories, right?

You got to go beyond that to see, hey, what's happening on the emotional side?

What's happening on the environmental side?

There's just so much to this.

It's a complex medical problem.

which somehow has been labeled as a single, you know, one problem of calories.

It's like, no, there's a huge difference between different types of calories because they elicit different responses in our bodies, right?