Hippocrates

The exaggeration that is "food as medicine"

oracknows | June 8, 2015

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. - attributed to Hippocrates Who said anything about medicine? Let's eat! - attributed to one of Hippocrates forgotten (and skeptical) students Who hasn't seen or heard Hippocrates' famous quote about letting food be your medicine and your medicine your food? If you have Facebook friends who are the least bit into "natural" medicine or living, you've almost certainly come across it in your feed, and if you're a skeptic who pays the least bit of attention to what's going on in the quackosphere you will almost certainly have seen it plastered…

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