Comments by "JLH" (@Kyarrix) on "Why You CAN'T LOSE WEIGHT u0026 How To Prevent CANCER, OBESITY, u0026 DIABETES! | Jason Fung" video.
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Someone wrote a comment criticizing Dr Fung for his appearance. He felt that Dr Fung looked like he had gained a few pounds. I wrote a response but when I tried to post it, the comment had been deleted. I hope it was deleted by the person who wrote it after they considered and realized it was an unfair statement rather than someone reporting it. The comment was wrong and unfair but the way to address something like that is to respond to it.
Here is my response to that comment.
Why would you attack on a personal level like that? Dr Fung has repeatedly stated that there is a time to feast and a time to fast. He has spoken about how eating this way allows for flexibility. I remember in one of his videos he talked about going on a cruise with his family. He said he ate the cruise food, had a great time and gained a few pounds. When he came back he fasted more and lost it. Feast and famine. He has never advocated for strict keto or for eating the same way all the time. The point of what he says is to be able to live a normal life. If you are at your parents house and they make conventional food, you can eat the food. If you go out to dinner or to a celebration, you can have a piece of the birthday cake. If you're on vacation, you don't count calories, you enjoy the vacation, you eat with your family and you have fun. That is the time for feasting. When you come back, then you fast.
Is it your position that he shouldn't make videos if he has put on 5 lb? Is he only allowed to be seen in public after losing them? Why do you feel that it's appropriate to hold him to a higher standard than anyone else?
Dr Fung is a supremely decent person who has put his career at risk time and time again to provide information to the public. He doesn't charge for access to his videos. You can read his books in the library. Everything he offers, he offers for free.
Let's reiterate that because it's an important point. Everything Dr Fung offers, he offers freely in the spirit of helping people. Most of the other doctors and those calling themselves doctors on YouTube (an assortment of various PhDs and chiropractors) hawk some product, subscription or supplement. Dr Fung does none of that.
Dr Fung has saved the lives of tens of thousands of people and transformed hundreds of thousands, If not millions of lives. At some point in the not distant future everything he is teaching will become standard. Often it is one of his videos that causes someone to start down the path of taking better care of themselves. I've shared his videos with dozens of people. When you start to learn about this, you want to learn more and there is always more to learn.
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