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Food as medicine: How this Newfoundland community got 'hooked' on plant-based eating | myfoodistry

Food as medicine: How this Newfoundland community got ‘hooked’ on plant-based eating

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Food as medicine: How this Newfoundland community got ‘hooked’ on plant-based eating. The Rayapudis found that 80 per cent of the diseases they were seeing in patients were related to diet and lifestyle — and changing these two factors was more effective and safe than treating chronic diseases with drugs and surgery.

“We are seeing a large number of people in our practices that are suffering — people suffering from preventable diseases,” said Arjun.

They decided to run regular workshops for patients with a variety of health problems to teach them how to follow a plant-based diet…

A Brief History of Medicine : From Hippocrates to Gene Therapy | myfoodistry

A Brief History of Medicine : From Hippocrates to Gene Therapy

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A Brief History of Medicine : From Hippocrates to Gene Therapy. Paul Strathern steers us skillfully through the maze of discoveries, diseases, and wrong turns that have made medicine what it is today–super efficient, high tech, and increasingly costly. “A Brief History of Medicine” offers an accessible history of the arguments, missteps, and dumb luck that led to the world’s most important medical breakthroughs–from anatomy, grave robbing, the plague, and germ theory to vaccination, quackery, microorganisms, and penicillin.