Advancing Medicine with Food and Nutrients PDF

Preface

After decades of journeying on different paths, food and medicine are located far apart. Food has become bereft of the nutrients vital to its healing properties, and modern medicine has sought to heal with technical advances that at the outset may seem more powerful than food. The current gap between food and medicine is illustrated in our terminology, which considers food as "alternative" to modern medicine. This gap is not appropriate or healthful; in fact food and nutrients are the original medicine, the shoulders on which modern medicine stands.

Advancing Medicine with Food and Nutrients, Second Edition reunites food and medicine. Here leading physicians on the frontlines of disease management apply the latest scientific advances to the clinical practice of medicine. Each chapter offers adjuncts to standard care, fewer side effects, improved risk-reduction, or added quality of life.