Food Isn’t Medicine

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Following evidence-based dietary recommendations can help manage and reduce the risk of chronic diseases but definitely can’t guarantee prevention or cure.

All of this sounds eminently sensible and achievable – definitely food for thought (shit pun definitely intended! As a fellow healthcare professional I am in awe, and not only has this started me on a more positive journey but my reviews with patients are now resulting in so much more, pulling away from the rubbish BMI and more towards being healthy and feeling good.The case is mostly problematic in psychiatry, where for example some psychiatric drugs may have symptoms that are severe as the disease itself, like suicidal feelings as a symptom for some antidepressants ( https://www.

Dat doet hij niet slecht, al heb ik het gevoel dat hij lichaamsgewicht soms te ostentatief uit de wind probeert te zetten om zijn punt te bewijzen. Which left me more confused as I felt like what I was eating wasn't "healthy", but it was portioned for me and marketed at me to lose weight. After reading the book, along with education on my little bluebell course, I finally feel at peace with my body. I thought I'd found the answer after hating my body for years and having lost the weight doing the challenge to eat plant-based whole food. Dr Wolrich neatly powers through pretty much every diet trend and popular belief out there, from whether dairy is inflammatory and why eggs were thought to increase blood cholesterol, to diets such as keto and fasting.Take for example WHO's statement that: "Millions of patients are harmed each year due to unsafe health care worldwide resulting in 2. A healthy relationship with food is essential to a person’s well-being, but not because it has medicinal properties. Food is not just fuel and it is more than nutrients — and we don’t consume it just to reduce our disease risk.

After a failed attempt to download the audio book off NetGalley, I parted with hard cash for a hard copy. It stands head and shoulders above any other book written in the medical nutrition (or 'diet', in some cases) field.De belangrijkste conclusies die hier genomen worden zijn de volgende: lichaamsgewicht is geen goede merker voor algemene gezondheid, voedsel mag je niet op dezelfde manier beschouwen als medicijnen, en op dieet gaan om af te vallen is onzin. Gleich zu Beginn des Buches war ich gefesselt, eines der besten Argumente die er gleich zu Beginn bringt, ist dass die meisten Diätenbücher und -mythen von Ärzten kommen. I really dislike the harmful narrative that’s created in media and by ‘health’ gurus about food along with general fat-shaming. But when this was suggested to the small, grumpy girl who was struggling to walk because of painful bones – her response was ‘but if I cut out gluten and start taking the medicine at the same time, how will I know which of them is working if the pain stops?