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THE OBESITY CODE COOKBOOK

other doctor in North America, had been trained to practice medicine in

this context. But it was not working.

Figure 1: Standard Paradigm of Medical Treatment

When people lose weight, their type 2 diabetes reverses course. Treat-

ing the root cause of a patient’s type 2 diabetes is therefore the only

logical solution to addressing this disease. If your car is leaking oil, the

solution is not to buy more oil and mops to clean up the spilled oil. The

solution is to find the leak and fix it. As medical professionals, we were

guilty of ignoring the leak and simply mopping up the mess.

If we could treat the obesity at the beginning (see figure 1), then

type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome could not develop. You can’t

develop diabetic kidney disease if you don’t have diabetes. You can’t

develop diabetic nerve damage if you don’t have diabetes. It seems so

obvious with hindsight.

So, I had realized where we were going wrong. The problem was that

I didn’t know how to change course; I didn’t know how to treat the obe-

sity. Despite having worked for more than ten years in medicine, I found

that my nutritional knowledge was rudimentary, at best. This realization

sparked a decade-long odyssey and eventually led me to establish the

Intensive Dietary Management (IDM) program (www.IDMprogram.com)

and the Toronto Metabolic Clinic (www.torontometabolicclinic.com).

Obesity

Medical Treatment

Metabolic Syndrome

Type 2 Diabetes

Heart Attacks

Stroke

Cancer

Kidney Disease

Blindness

Amputation

Nerve Damage