Dr. Jason Fung

If you wanted an after-school snack, your mom said, no, you're going to ruin your dinner.

If you wanted a bedtime snack, your mom would say, no, you should eat more at dinner, right?

No problem.

But what happened is that as we started to eat sort of a lot of carbs, what happened is exactly as what we discussed before.

You eat two slices of bread in the morning with jam.

You have no satiety, insulin spikes way up, glucose spikes way up, but then it crashes.

So you get hungry again.

Then you get hungry at 10.30.

So you go around looking for a low-fat muffin.

And it was because, you know, your sugars are going down, your insulin is going down.

So now you're eating mid-morning snack.

Then you eat a big plate of pasta.

Then you get ravenous at like three o'clock.

So you go find yourself some crackers or something like that, right?

And then now you're having a mid-morning snack.

You're having mid-afternoon snack.

Then you're having a bedtime snack.

And that's the average American by 2003 is eating five, six times a day.

But they're saying, hey, I'm eating so low fat.

This must be the right way to eat.