Dr. Jason Fung

It's different.

They have a different food culture where you eat real food, right?

The level of ultra processed food is much lower.

So therefore they don't have the same problems with hedonic hunger.

So that condition makes them have a much lower rate of obesity.

One of the lowest in the developed world.

Now you take that Italian, plop them into New York City or move them to somewhere else, and their rate of obesity just skyrockets.

What's the difference?

It's not the diet necessarily.

It's not the person.

It's those other conditions, the food environment and everything else.

Yeah, I do too because there is this whole idea.

I mean, first, you have to understand about fat shaming, right?

So the reason people were fat shaming was this whole calories.

It's really the calorie bullies that sort of led to fat shaming because the story that they sold us was, of course, that it's all calories, calories, calories.

Since you decide what you eat and you decide how much you exercise, calories is about discipline and willpower.

So if you get fat and can't lose weight, you don't have discipline.

You don't have willpower.

So in other words, it's your fault.

So we can make fun of you and shame you.