Flashback Friday: Can Morbid Obesity Be Reversed Through Diet?

How extreme was Dr. Kempner’s rice diet compared to traditional surgical approaches? Is there a safer alternative?

For more on Kempner and his rice diet, see:

Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution!
-Michael Greger, MD FACLM

[dakotablueskies]

I don’t understand why obesity isn’t treated like anorexia; like a life threatening eating disorder that requires serious in-patient medically supervised and insurance paid treatment.
They will pay to do dangerous surgery that often ends badly but not to really treat the person.

[ConfidentlyUninformed]

Hi Dr. Greger
I just want to thank you for all your amazing work.
I can’t wait for your next book to be released!

[saesae]

This is a normal diet in Japan. We are naturally super low fat, high carb, moderate protein. We ate tons of white rice and were skinny until western diet added oil and fat. Then our diabetes skyrocketed and people started lower carb/brown rice and we are even more diabetic.

[cindi]

This is the first I have heard about frying the brain to curb appetite. Now I know what happened to me. 19 months ago (Oct) I had a temperature of 104 for 48 hours. Don't know where it came from or why it left. I stayed hydrated but that was all I could do. It took me about 1 week to realize my addiction to carbs was gone. First Halloween that I didn't buy extra candy just for me. I made the decision to take advantage of the new food outlook and went WFPB. I lost 75 pounds in a year and maintained since, eating as much as I want of WFPB items only. I am 64 and have lived 50 years as an addict with no control. I am now free and it has been the best year of my life.

[joecaner]

The western industrialized agricultural and dietary pattern is death.
Organically raised plant based nutrition is life.

[matildah]

can you do a video on medicinal mushrooms like lions mane, chaga, shiitake, turkey tail etc??

[barli]

Best diet for weight loss is high carb low fat 80-10-10 style or Dr mcdougall starch solutions. It's comfortable and you can eat more volume of food.

[ED-wired]

Thank you, Dr Greger! Waiting for your next book is torture tho!!

[krzysztofh]

Finally, no daily dozen, no rainbow on the plate, no chickpes, lentils, beans no whole grains, all off a sudden now the fruit juice, table sugar, high glycemic white rice and little fiber diet is the cure for obesity and cardiovascular disease! 👌👊🎵"Celebrate good times c'mon"🎶🎉🎈🍍🍇🍬🍯🍌🍞🍚

[troecurov]

What's interesting in this information there's no data:1) how long this diet can be used?
2) is there any side effects of it?
3) How this diet can influence life span?
4) what will happen if patiens widen a range of foods they can eat?

[StephyPlantBased]

300 pounds in a year? 0, 8 pound per day = deficit of 3000-3500 calories per day.... wow.... that would be like me eating nothing and running 2h per day 🤯

[fifteenbyfive]

What's wrong with feeling hunger? Feel hungry and enjoy it.

[rioourpuprioourpup]

Do you know if this diet resulted in huge sagging skin? Seems to me that this diet literally fixed everything!

[ranradd]

"Travesty" is a key word in the SAD.

[rosesmith]

obesity like other conditions like high blood pressure or high cholesterol is called a disease when it is in fact a adaptation to some stress physical, mental or chemical. I have done low cal diets and sure I lost alot of weight (unfortunantly it was mostly muscle and water) but was never able to sustain it. hunger like sleep builds up a debt that sooner or later will have to be satisfied or you will die. what we have here is a misunderstanding of what true disease is. I have bene fighting obesity for many decades, I have yet to figure out what the stressor is that keeps this weight and keeps my body fighting to hold onto it with teeth like a pitbull.

[Dualhammers]

Dr. Greger cherrypicks the data in this video. At 4:36 he pull quotes the morality rate at being 1.9%, but the Summary page that serves as the background states that "(Various bariatric procedures in current use) have been performed with an overall mortality rate of less than 1%" That's about the same as getting your gallbladder removed, which he mentions in another video as a totally safe and routine procedure.

I expect better Dr. Greger.

[jd]

So what is the best solution to obesity?

[kolchaknightstalker]

I thought liberals loved obesity and “body positivity” is the new woke coolness? Why would we want to stop obesity if it’s such a laudable body to have and it’s now on a par with thin and healthy? 🤔🤔🤔