In spite of all the information and all the prescriptions offered by modern diets, American people just keep getting fatter.
In my mind, this suggests that our knowledge about metabolism is missing something – perhaps some of the old wisdom that kept hundreds of generations of people slender and strong.
Of course, having access to modern scientific knowledge is enormously helpful too.
The key lies in integrating these two bodies of wisdom, and then applying them to get a better understanding of our entire physiological landscape.