“New” Nutrition For The 21st Century

real food is back in style

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Old wives tales

When I was young, my friends and I heard what we called old-wives-tales about health and food…We rolled our eyes and looked at our mothers as if they were aliens…

Now we are learning that our mothers were correct.

Peggy und Marco Lachmann-Anke from Pixabay

Maybe those “old wives” knew what Hippocrates said:

Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.

Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine shall be thy food.

Or maybe they read Maimonides:

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.

Or maybe they knew this Chinese proverb:

He that takes medicine and neglects diet wastes the skill of the physician.

Whatever knowledge they had — those old wives, our parents, or grandparents — they seemed to understand a lot about nutrition.

But today’s “food” isn’t always food