09 Aug Summer Camp Week 8: Food As Medicine
Hippocrates wasn’t kidding when he said, “Let food be thy
medicine and medicine be thy food.” The man knew what
he
was talking about way back in (about) 475 BC – back when
it was necessary for physicians (or healers) to know about
nature. Ask a physician practicing traditional western
medicine today about what you can eat to help
diverticulitis, arthritis or a simple sinus infection, and you
might be met with a confused face. Medical doctors in our
western culture typically practice medicine by prescribing
pharmaceutical drugs and addressing symptoms of disease.
But what if we could replace disease with ease? Better yet, what if healthcare was all about maintaining
ease instead of addressing symptoms of disease?
Another smart man that we’re all familiar with – Mr. Thomas Edison – once said, “The doctor of the
future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human
frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.”
With an ongoing discussion of preventive health amongst our community these days, more of us are
now interested in what we can eat and how we can live to prevent disease.
If you’re among the bunch that wishes to choose ease as a way of life, here’s an overview you may find
to be a useful guide for living:
Food for Thought
Your body is an amazing machine of interconnected mechanisms that work together to generate
a living, breathing, you. And though each function of your body is quite dependent on the functions of
other parts of your body, there are specific foods that help support specific areas of your anatomy.
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Bringing a regular supply of these foods into your diet can help support healthy function of all your body’s systems and mechanisms. Using these foods in times of disorder and disease can also prove to be supportive to your health.
References
www.clevelandclinic.com – Cleveland Clinic
https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/digestive-diseases – National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disorders
https://medlineplus.gov/throatdisorders.html – US National Library of Medicine