The Obesity Code

I enjoyed this book as it discusses fasting as a lifestyle and as a weight-loss tool.

Parts of it were hard to get through as the author provides all the long and confusing medical terms and explanations. And it does take a while to get to a big chunk of his solutions as he lays out a history of American food diets and studies. He also addresses a lot of long-held and cemented beliefs that are wrong. His focus for a correct diet is insulin in the body.

This book came to me (do you ever feel like books sometimes choose you? instead of the other way around?) at a time when I am re-evaluating and throwing away a bunch of mainstream beliefs. There are plenty of references included in his statements against many of the beliefs that Big Food and the government have soaked into our collective wisdom on what is good or bad to eat.

While grabbing on to a lot of what the author is spouting, I am not a groupie but do believe this book provides a great amount of “food” for thought (pun intended). And although I do not agree with extreme fasting, the information in the book added to thoughts I already have about it.