[ShareTompkins] The Health Care Doctors Forgot: Why Ordinary Food Will Be the Future of Medicine

[A Wilson]

Published today (February 3rd 2014) in Independent Science News: “The  
Health
Care Doctors Forgot: Why Ordinary Food Will be the New Medicine [1]”  
by T
Colin Campbell.

Can diet cure disease, and not just prevent it? Scientific evidence is
accumulating that diets which emphasize consumption of plants and  
which avoid
meat and dairy products can rapidly reverse common and life-threatening
chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. For these and other
common diseases research is showing that a diet-based cure is much more
effective than current medical treatments which are largely ineffectual,
expensive, and plagued by side effects. These important facts about  
the power
of nutrition are not widely known, however. That is because they
simultaneously challenge the food industry, the pharmaceutical  
industry, and
the medical profession. The latter institution resists this approach  
also for
the reason that (w)holistic nutrition is incompatible with current
reductionist medical philosophy. With accumulating evidence and  
rapidly rising
healthcare costs, however, there is potential for nutritional  
treatments to
replace whole branches of medicine and to extend life quality and life
expectancy at negligible cost. Dr. Campbell argues that, “It is now  
time to
replace the current medical-based disease care system with a diet- 
based health
care system as Hippocrates prompted us to think about two and a half  
thousand
years ago,” when he said “Let food be thy medicine“.

T Colin Campbell is Jacob Gould Schurmann Professor Emeritus at Cornell
University, author of two New York Times bestsellers: The China Study  
(2004)
and Whole [2] (2013).

See the review of The China Study [3] on the Independent Science News  
website.

Article printed from Bioscience Resource Project:
http://www.bioscienceresource.org

URL to article:
http://www.bioscienceresource.org/2014/02/the-health-care-doctors-forgot-why-ordinary-food-will-be-the-future-of-medicine/

URLs in this post:

[1] The Health Care Doctors Forgot: Why Ordinary Food Will be the New
Medicine:
http://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/the-healthcare-doctors-forgot-ordinary-food-will-be-the-new-medicine/

[2] Whole:
http://foodforthesoul.opare.net/book-review-whole-by-t-colin-campbell/

[3] review of The China Study:
http://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/the-china-study/




Allison Wilson, PhD
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The Bioscience Resource Project

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