Dr. Jason Fung argues hormones, not just calories, control weight loss. He explains why blended foods cause faster insulin spikes and less satiety than whole foods, even with identical calories. Restricting calories actually slows your metabolism.
Simply say if you eat fewer calories, you must lose weight. It's not true, because every single study of weight loss shows that your metabolic rate goes down. But if you burn all those calories, you're not going to get fat. Right? So it's not the number of calories, it's what your body does with those calories. And that all depends on your hormones. Because really, honestly, everything in the body runs on hormones. That's how, you know, we send messages, hormonal messages, chemical messages, to tell your body what you're supposed to do. So the point is that it's not just the number of calories, because the number of calories doesn't have any impact on what your
body does with it. Eating Oreos and I take 10 of them and I put them in a blender, maybe with some water to keep them calorically equivalent, and I drink that smoothie and then I eat 10 cookies. My satiety response and possibly my weight gain or loss response is going to be different. Different between equivalent Oreo cookies blended versus eaten?
Yeah, because it's easier to eat. So therefore it gets digested easier. Because when you're eating the cookies and you're chewing them and stuff, it's got to go down into the stomach, then the stomach's got to churn them up and so on. Right. When it's hard, when it's bulky, right when it's more difficult, then it goes through slower. So by blending it, you actually sort of pre digest this. It's like adults, baby food, right? You've pre digested this food to make it easier to absorb, but the easier absorption means that it goes through faster, which gives you a much higher spike in glucose and insulin.
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