Dr. Jason Fung
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I went to Europe.
I thought I gained weight.
I lost 10 pounds, right?
Or you hear these stories.
I actually think these are really illuminating.
You read these stories of people who come from, say, Japan.
They go to America to study, right?
And then it's like they're there for like first year college.
Then they go home and go, I realized I gained 20 pounds.
My mom was like yelling at me, right?
And then it's like, then they lose all the weight.
Then they go back to America and gain all that weight.
It's like, okay, well, what's the problem here?
It's not the individual.
It's the structure that they find themselves in, right?
In one case, you have clear guardrails of what you're supposed to do, what you're not supposed to do.
And the other is like, do whatever you want as long as the calories are in line, right?
You go to certain places and it's like, no, you shouldn't be eating in the streets.
You shouldn't be eating in front of the TV.
You shouldn't be sitting down with people to eat.