Most of our daily activities are the sum total of our habits. Many of the chronic health problems facing our nation today are simply a result of our bad habits. This book lays out a simple plan to replace bad habits with healthy habits to help you achieve your optimum health.

Anthropology is primarily done in the field, unlike the laboratory oriented experimental sciences. Experimental sciences make their observations in constructed settings that permit variables influencing the outcome of the experiment to be known and controlled. In contrast, anthropology's object of inquiry, like the science of ethology is life experience in its natural setting. To understand how people organize their lives both in thought and in action, one must settle among them for a very long time. The Wape of Papua New Guinea inhabit a mountainous rain forest and live in sedentary...