As You Like Eat

The new wellness trend of metabolic eating focuses on how your body processes food, rather than cutting what's on your plate. But does it work?

- - TANISHA SAXSENA

For decades, diets have been framed around subtraction-fewer calories, fewer ingredients, fewer indulgences. But the newest wave in wellness insists that the path to health lies not in restriction but in regulation. "Metabolic eating," as its advocates call it, aims to nourish rather than deprive, shifting focus from what you cut to how the body processes what you put in.