What is the history of metabolic typing?
The concept of using individual diets for individual people is not new. The ancient Greeks and Romans recognised individual food requirements. Chinese and Indian Ayurvedic doctors have for thousands of years recommended individual dietary variations based on different constitutional types. The advances in nutritional science of the past century have led researchers to develop increasingly sophisticated systems for identifying unique individual dietary needs. William Wolcott – author of The Metabolic Typing Diet is now considered to be the authority on this subject. This book is a very readable analysis of the deeper principles involved in metabolic typing and provides clear advice on how to individualise your own eating patterns. One important thing that William Wolcott has highlighted is that the same food may cause different patterns of metabolic balance (or imbalance) in different people. Additionally, two people displaying similar disease symptoms may need distinctly different diet
