Food As Medicine
Food Chain Radio Show #1067
Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist
Food As Medicine
Guest: Catherine Frompovich Author, Eat to Beat Disease
Over 2,500 years ago, Hippocrates said, “Let thy food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.”
Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Food Is Thy Medicine
Does Hippocrates admonition ring true today? After all, so much of our food now comes wrapped in plastic from convenience stores, and the medicines we get from big corporations are miraculous, at least, so they say.
But what if?
What if we could find food to help us stay healthy; that would ease and maybe even eliminate pain; would that help us manage the real big trouble?
Where would we find such food? Who would grow it for us? How would they grow it? And…
Leave a comment below: Which foods would be worthy of being our medicine?
Tune in here, for the syndicated Food Chain Radio Show #1067 August 6, 2016 Saturday 9AM Pacific
If it’s expensive and memorable, it’s more likely to be valuable for your health. Controlling for all other factors, class status is a better predictor of health than diet. High status foods are therefore are therefore associated with better health regardless of their physical composition.