The Scientific Quest to Erase Fatness Is Wrong

Let’s be careful about how we define ‘progress’

Eat for your health and the next generation. Illustration courtesy of the author

This is a story of another time, of a plausible future 30 years from now, give or take, in which the human experience of life and health (and perhaps even of who we are) will unfold unlike anything known before. The citizens of this future will learn early in life — through some combination of…