let the food be your medicine

Yeah, friend, the current scenario seems to be an era of medicines. Everybody is facing poor health conditions and eat medicines like food. Actually, it is right that proper food can prevent diseases to a large degree but still one needs other forms like work-outs, meditation etc. to control diseases. Moreover, there are certain diseases that are hereditary and you can not prevent them. For such diseases, one has to rely on medicines. Happy Mylotting!!

All i know is that about 3 years ago i was on a bunch of medicine for a few different things. and once i started changing my eating habits, getting some exercise every day, and supplementing with some vitamins and herbs everyday. Today i am not on any precipitation medication, and i feel better now in my 50's than i did in my 30's and 40's. Medical doctors are taught to relie of prescription medications to treat illness, and they do not try to deal with the actual problems that we face each day. and everybody knows that prescription medicines have all kinds of side effects that are sometimes worse than the ailment that they are trying to treat.

i wish it was that easy but some people i know wo are in really bad shape need their medicine.

I didn´t know Hippocrates had said that but I did know he was a very wise man. If we listen to our body needs and learn what to do as a response, I think that normal food is more than enough to meet our need, unless we live in a place where there´s hunger and lack of food. A well kept body also means that our body´s guardian, the inmune system, will be working well. Most of the normal ailments will be stopped by it. Medicine, as we know it in the western hemisphere, is a billion dollars business and also, sometimes, a help when our body cannot help itself in the normal way. Food should meet all the body´s requirements if we know how to use it. Welcome to mylot and happy posting!!!