For Dr. Fung, one important, obvious suggestion:  Everyone believes that if one burns more calories than one consumes that weight will be lost.  So instead of arguing that this is false, simply point out that there is one more step in the process to losing weight and keeping it off, that of going into the metabolic fat-burning mode and staying one it--a very low carbs diet with fasting. 

The eat less exercise advice is not wrong, just incomplete.  The common advice of “eat less and exercise more”; this should also include “stay in the fat-burning mode with a very low carb diet”, and “this will work quicker with the addition of fasting”.   This addition piece leads into the explanation of the role of insulin resistance and how this diet cures it.  Insulin resistance is caused by the Western diet which is low in fats and thus high in carbs including the sugar fructose which starts the path to insulin resistance.   

On my health website (http://healthfully.org/rh/id8.html) I have a recommendation very similar to yours, only I suggest a short-term fast as many days and hours as the dieter feels comfortable with (for higher compliance).  In your video Richard’s Story, his did this and lost 40 lbs.   Your comment on the short-term fast would be appreciated.   Dr. Michael Mosley of the BBC also recommends a short-term fast.

One last bit of interest, the US Dietary Guidelines issued in 2015 continue with “more turds in the punch bowl (from your blog’s title) and this has resulted in an article in the BMJ (British Medical Journal Sept 23, 2015) on the stench coming from those guidelines.  This leads to one more comment, follow the bucks.  Bad advice is a result of corporate political influence.  To blame a person (David Kurtz) instead of the corporation behind the curtain is a partial truth.  You have an article up on food industry funding dietary conferences.  A current article in In These Times lists the donations made by Coca Cola.