Is Metabolic Typing just another nutritional fad?
It would be easy to think so. As far back as the 1st century BC Lucretius said: “What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others”, and it seems to us that Metabolic Typing is just a new name we’ve given to knowledge and wisdom that has been around for a long, long time. Since the beginning of human evolution, and way before we had trucks, trains and planes to transport our food, different cultures have had to adapt to the surroundings they have lived in – including the available food within their immediate environment. As a result of these differences in environment, including the differences in available foods, variations in our nutritional requirements and how we use these nutrients have evolved. In his ground breaking book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, Dr. Weston A. Price documented the vast differences of diet among 16 indigenous cultures. One striking example he discovered was between the Inuit (Eskimos) who eat lots of fat and protein, while the Quetchus Indians of
