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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it work. The natural healing force inside each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food.
Hippocrates (Greek physician 460 BC - 377 BC)
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I love this quote. Interesting that the hipocratic oath is taken by all MD's and yet nutrition (food) is only and elective course in their education.
ReplyDeleteSomeday they'll catch up to the rest of us.
Yes - a good example is Dr. Mehmet Oz. He's considered one world's foremost physicians and heart surgeons because of his success in saving lives. I think he would make Hippocrates proud - he really understands the importance of nutrition and what is best and most helpful for the body's health and healing. He has written a number of books, including "You the Owner's Manual: An Insiders Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger" and "You: Staying Young."
ReplyDeleteHe was one of Time's 2008 Top 100:
"He is a man of extraordinary compassion and strength, remarkably suited both to caring for his own patients and to carrying a message of health to a larger world. Perhaps when you've had the powerful experience of opening human hearts, you find it a little easier to open your own."
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1733748_1733754_1735329,00.html