Nearly 2,500 years ago, Hippocrates observed that the food we eat and the medicine we need are one and the same. Long before laboratories and journal articles, traditional communities across Africa, Asia, and Europe built entire systems of eating around this same idea — using fermentation, whole grains, wild greens, and seasonal eating not just […]
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Ancient Wisdom and traditional food nutrition of a healthy lifestyle in a modern world
Why Focusing on Nutrition and Health Education from a Microbial Perspective Why am I talking about a microbial approach to nutrition and health? Take a moment to think this through with me. There’s no shortage of health education programmes out there, and you’ve likely tried some of the proposed principles or strategies to lose weight […]
The importance of the gastrointestinal system to human health and diseases has been anticipated by Hippocrates (460-370BC), who remains one of the most outstanding men in the history of human medicine. Long ago, he stated the following aphorisms: Hippocrates further affirms the importance of food for maintaining and promoting health by claiming that “Let food […]