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| For centuries the Chinese have used ginger to treat nausea. |
| Despite myriad changes in culture, habits, and lifestyle, the discoveries made by ancient cultures continued to have an impact on both eating and health habits throughout the centuries. Take the phrase "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." Based on the ancient Greek saying "To eat an apple going to bed, will make a doctor beg his bread," it has survived to this day. |
| Yet did you ever stop to think about the validity of this aphorism? If not, you're not alone. |
| F.Y.I. |
| Hippocrates, known as the father of modern medicine, put it succinctly way back in 400 B.C.: "Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food." |
| The Price of Progress |
| Somewhere around the middle of the twentieth century, Americans lost sight of the connection between food and health, between what we eat and what we are. "Progress"cutting-edge research, high-tech medical equipment, and a fleet of new pharmaceuticalsbrought an obsession with the latest, fastest, most modern treatments. Physicians fell in love with new "miracle drugs" such as antibiotics; many started believing that pharmaceuticals were the only legitimate treatment for any ailment. |
| The role of diet suddenly became irrelevant. Obsessed by the shiniest, newest methods of detecting and treating disease, physicians lost sight of the roots of illnessand of good health. |
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