Let Food Be Your Medicine

Mark lucock ends his review of the science of folic acid by quoting hippocrates.

Let food be your medicine. Morphine is the bitter. 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. 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. Most feel much more comfortable with drugs than foods and the food as medicine.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food there are in fact two things science and opinion. 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. Diana cardenas discovered that the quote started to emerge from 1926 onwards and really started to get popular in the 1970s. Although many patients are convinced of the importance of food in both causing and relieving their problems many doctors knowledge of nutrition is rudimentary.

He is a new york times bestselling author with over 10 million books sold. Let food be thy medicine. Hippocrates let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. Chinese have practiced this for thousands of years.

Doctors have been doing it since hippocrates. He stressed let food be your medicine and medicine be your food advice that to this day has not lost its validity. But as research by diana cardenas in 2013 shows this quote can not be found anywhere in hippocrates writings. I am pleased to provide a review of this publication by well known christian physician dr.

Let food be thy medicine and let medicine be thy food this famouse quote is often attributed to hippocrates. Let food be your medicine is a life changing book that i highly recommend to you. Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. The former begets knowledge the latter ignorance and wherever the art of medicine is loved there is also a love of humanity.

59 quotes from hippocrates. He is the medical director of the divine health. 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. There is promise in using dietary manipulations as medicine let food be your medicine for a variety of conditions.

Before such things as antibiotics our pioneer forefathers used food as medicine.