Dr. Jason Fung
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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.
This must be good for me.
So now the snacking becomes institutionalized.
Whereas pre-1977, snacks are an indulgence, right?
It's not something good for you.
It's something bad for you, but hey, once in a while you indulge.
Then it becomes institutionalized as something that every single one of us should be doing.
And we should never be without food for more than an hour and a half.
Let's think about this very simply, okay?
So if you eat, your insulin is going to go up.
Your body is going to store calories because you told it to.
If you don't eat or if you fast, your body is, your insulin is going to go down.
You're going to bring those calories back out of storage, right?
So you're going to burn calories.
You eat, you store calories.
You don't eat, you burn calories.
Very simple.