Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food...
Many varieties of food from plants or animals provide different nutritional values and phytofactors that not only survive us but also cures us of many illnesses. People have long ago discovered the use of herbs of plant origins. There are food herbs whereby we can take them everyday, like garlic, gingko or ginseng just to mention a few.
There are of course certain herbs that we cannot take everyday since they are specifically only for some illnesses. All these can be obtained from natural foods or herbs that one can easily acquire from one's own natural habitats. Believe me. Many same properties might come from different plants.
Our Creator loves us so much that all of us are given equal chances to obtain them from Mother Nature. In colder climates, they have natural wheat. In warmer climates, we can have natural rice/coarse rice. We are not equiped with wings to fly to just any place but with improved modernization, now we can sample almost just any foods from all over the world. The same applies to the vegetables or the fruits that should make up most of our daily diets.
The moon looks alike in just any angle of this world. It won't shine a little brighter or a little dimmer.
With such abundance of natural foods, we just need to eat and be replenished with all these nutritional goodness. We should and can eat enough of these natural foods. Scientists discovered that our body needs at least 40 different types of nutrients, thus it is variety of foods recommended and a balanced one too.
If one can really eat enough of these 40 types of nutrients and not missing out any, then we have done a great job in not just maintaining our health but also prevent us from illness. Thus let food be our medicine, so why the need of medicine? Prevention is so much better than cure!
This will be the best start towards a healthy living before food supplements and other natural medications can interupt. That will be another discussion.
This is one of my health article I submitted for my health forum.
Lucy
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