{"id":8359,"date":"2016-03-22T14:13:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T14:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=8359"},"modified":"2016-03-22T14:13:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T14:13:54","slug":"let-your-food-be-your-medicine-by-kayode-oseni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=8359","title":{"rendered":"“LET YOUR FOOD BE YOUR MEDICINE… ” by Kayode Oseni"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Most people have heard about this ancient famous quote attributed to the father of modern medicine,Hippocrates. By medicine, it is meant a drug or other preparation for the treatment or prevention of disease.
\nAnd we all know what food is,we consume it for purpose of nourishment and satisfaction.
\nBut what most people are not getting is that both food and medicine have been distorted and used wrongly for a long time now.And that is why we are having increasing spades of ill health in our generation.Health issues that weren’t in existence about a century ago are now becoming pandemic. Obesity, infertility, metabolic diseases, cancers are becoming more common despite our increasing civilization and technological advancements.<\/p>\n


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Let us take a look at how and where we are getting it wrong.First,drugs are substances meant to prevent and treat conditions of disharmony in the body.They are supposed to be compatible with the human body and are to be non toxic. But the trend of fast pace associated with improved technology caught up with the drug industries and overwhelmed them.
\nNow drugs are produced for profit, and thus the first consideration is how to produce more drugs at lesser costs, and at faster rates.Even the drugs are now mostly becoming poisons because the need to make them easier to take, faster to work, and cheaper to produce has overridden the need to reduce possible side effects and overall safety.
\nThere is now drug for every possible ailments, with at least 3 other drugs available for each side effects of taking the particular drug.
\nIt is now so bad that there is a drug for sneezing, another for alcoholic hangover, a different one for too much acid,and yet another for too little acid in stomach.There is a drug for being tired instead of taking a deserved rest, and there is drug to lose control and feel free from responsibilities ( recreational drugs ).
\nThe bad news is that these drugs are killing us rather than healing us.We are now aware of antibiotic resistant strains of bugs,we all know of carcinogenic effects of certain drugs, and we also know of the metabolic anomalies attributable to certain drugs,not to mention those commonly used drugs causing liver and kidney failures.<\/p>\n

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The solution?
\nThe solution is in simply going back to the old days when our food served as our drugs. We must go back to those days when we eat not for mere satiation but for nourishment, when we feed our bodies with nature’s nourishment from the earth.
\nWe must not allow the same fate that befell our drugs also befall our foods.Our food industries must stop considering profit over nourishment, and we also must stop choosing junks over food.
\nThe mentality of easy, fast, and cheap must not be allowed to dictate our choice of food.
\nIf we eat healthy wholesome nourishing foods we will have less need of drugs,because our food will thus become our medicine.
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