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The Hunger Code

Resetting Your Body's Fat Thermostat in the Age of Ultra-Processed Food

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The Hunger Code

By: Dr. Jason Fung
Narrated by: Brian Nishii
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THE SEQUEL TO THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER THE OBESITY CODE

"Jason Fung nails it again in The Hunger Code. This book clearly and compellingly explains why most Americans are overweight and gives us a concise, evidence-based way to manage our weight with as little hunger as possible."—Dan Buettner, New York Times bestselling author of The Blue Zones

The Obesity Code helped thousands of people lose weight naturally.

The Hunger Code will help thousands more lose weight—and keep it off—in an era of weight-loss drugs and ultra-processed foods…without counting calories.

For generations, we've accepted the story that weight loss can never last—that as soon as we go off the diet or stop taking the medication, we revert to our old habits, regain the weight, and the calorie-counting journey starts all over again. Traditional medicine continues to treat the symptom of weight gain rather than addressing its root causes. Too often, healthcare systems intervene with quick fixes and short-term solutions, ignoring the factors that lead to sustainable weight loss that can last a lifetime.

What if the secret to long-term weight maintenance and better health isn’t just about what you eat—or even when you eat—but why you eat?

With the food industry's reliance on ultra-processed foods and the popularity of Ozempic and Mounjaro, understanding the forces behind why we eat is more important than ever before.

In The Hunger Code, New York Times bestselling author Dr. Jason Fung reveals the three powerful forces that drive us to eat:

- Physical Hunger

- Emotional Hunger

- Social Hunger

Dr. Fung also introduces the concept of the body’s “fat thermostat”—a biological “set point” that regulates how much fat your body tries to maintain. Guided by hormones and metabolism, this internal system drives hunger and energy use, explaining why lasting weight loss requires more than just willpower …

With three Golden Rules and 50 actionable tips, The Hunger Code empowers you to recognize and respond to hunger appropriately. Learn how to slow digestion, break emotional eating cycles, and overcome social pressures to eat constantly, so you can maintain a healthy weight—from scratch, after fasting, or after using weight-loss drugs.

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Finally it’s here, this will change anyone’s life who wants to understand the real truth about our food today

The book we all have to read

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The information was exceedingly helpful for me, and exactly what I needed to understand so that I can shift the 5 kilos I have gained since retiring and stopping smoking and vaping.

The reader was exceptional.

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This book should be taught in schools and promoted in every country where obesity exists. It could help reverse the obesity epidemic and should be the foundation to campaign against the production, sale and advertising of Ultra Processed Foods. The author thoroughly explains that hunger not calories is the secret to weight loss/control and puts it in simple to understand language. The narrator is clear and there are snippets of humour too. I recommend this book to almost everyone.

Outstanding

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The best diet book by far … as it covers areas & topics most don’t & makes this book the easy one place to go for solutions. Much more wide-ranging & practical & solutions based than anticipated - a real surprise, & makes this book so much more valuable. Thoroughly recommended.

Outstanding - New & Solutions

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I have read all of Dr Jason Fung’s books and seen how he continues to learn and share with us. This book helps to understand how and why and equips us with the skills to become healthier. I’ve ordered a hard copy and I am going to be dropping one off at my GP surgery. There really is hope. Thank you to Dr Jason Fung.

Hope, real hope for us all

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