Let Food Be Your Medicine
Although many patients are convinced of the importance of food in both causing and relieving their problems many doctors knowledge of nutrition is rudimentary.
Let food be your medicine. Before such things as antibiotics our pioneer forefathers used food as medicine. It does no one any favors to use a sympathetic portrait of an unfortunate alt med true believer to stand in for the disconnect between what people think about food and health and what doctors think about it. Let food be your medicine is not a new concept. Diana cardenas discovered that the quote started to emerge from 1926 onwards and really started to get popular in the 1970s.
He is a new york times bestselling author with over 10 million books sold. There is promise in using dietary manipulations as medicine let food be your medicine for a variety of conditions. Let food be your medicine is a life changing book that i highly recommend to you. Let food be thy medicine and let medicine be thy food this famouse quote is often attributed to hippocrates.
59 quotes from hippocrates. Hippocrates let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. Be blessed grow and be fruitful and let all who come to you find peace shade and food and let the birds of the air find their joy in your branches. Let food be thy medicine.
He stressed let food be your medicine and medicine be your food advice that to this day has not lost its validity. Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. Doctors have been doing it since hippocrates. I mention the year 1805 because in that year in the small town of einbeck where i went to school and enrolled in my apprenticeship german pharmacist friedrich wilhelm sertr 1783 1841 discovered morphine named after morpheus the god of dreams.
Mark lucock ends his review of the science of folic acid by quoting hippocrates. I rate this book 5 out of 5 stars. Morphine is the bitter. Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food there are in fact two things science and opinion.
Chinese have practiced this for thousands of years. But as research by diana cardenas in 2013 shows this quote can not be found anywhere in hippocrates writings. He is the medical director of the divine health. Top 10 healing foods of the decade the past decade has presented an explosion of clinical research to show specifically what health benefits individual foods can offer identifying the various nutrients associated with these benefits.
The former begets knowledge the latter ignorance and wherever the art of medicine is loved there is also a love of humanity.