44 pages • 1 hour read
Jason FungThe Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Essay Topics
What do recent studies reveal about the nature versus nurture debate around obesity? On what side does Fung fall? How does he defend his position?
What is the theory behind “Eat Less, Move More?” Why doesn’t it work? Why have healthcare professionals been slow to abandon it?
What are some criticisms to Fung’s approach? How credible are these arguments and on what scientific evidence do they rely?
Citing specific examples of whole foods and processed foods, address the impact of technological advances on nutrition, obesity, and type 2 diabetes.
Fung does not consider personal factors like one’s psychological and emotional relationship to food or one’s culture/lifestyle in his discussion of intermittent fasting. What factors might make intermittent fasting impracticable for some people? In such cases, what is their alternative?
Discuss the roles of government policy and multinational food corporations in driving obesity. What role does the FDA play in guiding Americans’ food choices?
How have multinational food corporations fueled the global obesity epidemic? In what others ways are aspects of capitalist society influential on people’s food and health choices?
What are incretins? How do they function? Why does Fung connect them to obesity?
Describe the Atkins and Paleo Diets. How does Fung’s approach overlap with these diets? How does it diverge?
The Obesity Code was published in 2016. How has Fung’s approach fared over time? Is the book as popular as it was when it was first published? In what ways does current dietary advice support or contradict Fung’s approach?
