Food Isn’t Medicine

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For instance, an increase in dietary fiber supports lower blood sugar levels in persons with pre-diabetes or diabetes, reducing the occurrence of nerve and blood vessel damage associated with high blood sugar levels. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans state that a healthy dietary pattern is associated with a lower risk of certain chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, bone disease, breast cancer, and colorectal cancer. This is referred to as drug-nutrient interaction, which may enhance or interrupt the effect of a medication in the body.

He wades through nutritional science and dissects every popular diet and debunks a lot of diet myths explaining why so much nutrition and diet advice is based on inaccuracies, bad science or just straight up lies. People who have access to adequate nutrition are more likely to have strong immune systems, safer pregnancy and childbirth, lower risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and they live longer.Josh's desire to educate others stands upon a foundation of compassion that we might experience more freedom and take our opportunity to question the damaging messages we so easily absorb.

Listening to this book was like repeatedly taking a deep breath of fresh air after being confined in a chaotic, dirty cesspool over many years. We all have unique genetic predispositions—some people are simply born more at risk for certain conditions, like heart disease, than others. Sunlight, dust, chemicals, metal, plants, animals, and other things we’re exposed to daily can contribute to the onset of pretty much every illness, from kidney disease to infertility to skin cancer. I hated that word at first, but it's kind of grown on me in the sense that I have a platform and I am quite happy to influence! But they never claim that any dietary pattern alone, like Whole 30 or paleo, can prevent or cure disease.The nutrition world is a minefield of confusion, misinformation and competing and conflicting loud voices. Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” hearkens back to Hippocrates, the father of medicine. Actually, health behaviors—eating, physical activity, smoking, alcohol and drug use, and sexual activity—are just one of many determinants and account for around 30 percent of a person’s overall health outcomes, according to a 1999 policy paper published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences that’s often cited by health experts and policymakers. Philanthropic organisations such as the Rockefeller Foundation are putting money into addressing this too.