{"id":27947,"date":"2017-11-14T07:33:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T12:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27947"},"modified":"2017-11-14T07:33:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T12:33:37","slug":"food-as-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27947","title":{"rendered":"Food as Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Food as Medicine<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Hippocrates said \u201cLet food be they medicine, and medicine be thy food.\u201d\u00a0 At the doctor\u2019s office for my annual checkup I was asked to list any herbs I take and I thought \u201cthis should be interesting.\u201d\u00a0 Sure, I take herbal supplements but what about all the fresh or dried herbs I cook with or drink as tea?\u00a0 What about Mediterranean herbs in spaghetti, garlic in hummus, basil in pesto, chamomile or mint tea?\u00a0 What about carrots, sweet potatoes and squash in navy bean soup to boost our immune system and fight off colds?\u00a0 I asked the doctor if I should list basil in pesto and was told \u201cNo, that\u2019s food!\u201d (along with a look that said I must be an idiot). \u00a0Well isn\u2019t that the point, that our food is our medicine!<\/p>\n

I was watching T.V. and listening to the warnings of side effects from the medicine being advertised, and wondered why people consider the risk worth taking the medicine!\u00a0 Many food and drugs sold seem to cause health problems.\u00a0 There\u2019s a phenomenon called \u2018prescription cascade\u2019 where one prescription causes side effects that require another prescription, which causes side effects that require another prescription, which causes side effects\u2026. and well, you get the idea.\u00a0 Nice profit for drug companies and doctors who control the prescriptions.<\/p>\n

Our industrial agriculture and food manufacturing practices are making food\u00a0 with lower nutritional value<\/a>.\u00a0 Fresh minimally processed \u2018whole\u2019 food contains nutrients important for our health such as calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron, beta-carotene, vitamin B-complex, vitamin-C, vitamin-A, and vitamin K, antioxidants, soluble and insoluble fiber.\u00a0 Processed food has nutritional supplements added back in along with preservatives and artificial color and flavors, and many other food additives.\u00a0\u00a0 We no longer think of food as medicine, or expect it to be medicine.\u00a0 We are more often concerned about the negative aspects, avoiding the unhealthy foods we shouldn\u2019t eat.\u00a0 Plants have provided our medicine for most of human history.<\/p>\n

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Food as Medicine Hippocrates said \u201cLet food be they medicine, and medicine be thy food.\u201d\u00a0 At the doctor\u2019s office for my annual checkup I was asked to list any herbs I take and I thought \u201cthis should be interesting.\u201d\u00a0 Sure, I take herbal supplements but what about all the fresh or dried herbs I cook […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[16692,319,17011,5720,16693,3364,582],"class_list":["post-27947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-animasoul","tag-food","tag-food-as-medicine","tag-industrial-agriculture","tag-jody-tishmack","tag-medicine","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27948,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27947\/revisions\/27948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}