Through his writing Simeons first tackles the concept of regular meals and its connection to stored fats. He discusses the Neolithic Era in history about 8,000 years ago when obesity was considered a sign of healthy and prosperity. This was due to the fact that it was a sign of having enough to eat and being well off. However, obesity was not common everywhere and with some races it was almost non-existent. In early Neolithic times, there was a significant change in the ways that humans ate. This change was the creation of a regular meal eating system, in which humans would sit down at certain times everyday and eat large amounts of food rapidly, which would hold him over until the next large “gorging” as Simeons puts it. However, Simeons points