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- January 28, 2022
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My Food, My Medicine
Dr Princewill Chibuikem Orianwo
We are what we ingest both physically , mentally , socially and spiritually.
With good and healthy food we all will have less need to take medications.
Natural food contain vitamins , nutrients, minerals and antibiotic properties to fight off infections and nourish our bodies.
We therefore advocate for good , healthy and natural food for where there is food there is life.
“Food is Medicine” is a term which was originally coined by Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine; it was his belief that eating wholesome food is the basis for good health. Hippocrates said almost 2500 years ago:
“Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.”
Centuries ago the earliest known doctors and health practitioners across the world imparted the benefits of using food as medicine to heal the body and now based on research it is clearly evident that food plays a major role in health and how you feel on a day to day basis.
Hippocrates believed that illness stemmed from inadequate nutrition and bad eating habits and that if people were to learn good eating habits then optimum health would be restored. Long before doctors and medicine was commonly used, wise tribal elders would seek out healing herbs and plants for their community and food would be applied prescriptively to bring about healing. Slowly through the years man has moved away from the healing power of nature and towards prescribing packaged synthetic drugs and artificial remedies to deal with illness.
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