ESSAY: Our metabolic rates are falling. Could this explain the obesity crisis?

Read my latest piece for the Idaho Tribune

I wrote this essay recently for the good people at the Idaho Tribune. A new study shows that the resting metabolic rate (the energy expended at rest) of adult Americans and Europeans has declined significantly in recent decades. If we’re burning fewer calories day to day, that means it’s easier for us to put on more weight. And we are putting on more we…