Why food as creative activity for MD's?

APS, Rockwell, Makati City, January 19, 2013.

Why was food chosen as creative activity for the doctors taking up entrepreneurship?

Dra. Nazareth mentioned that she did not judge the food prepared on being healthy because some of them used unhealthy ingredients like so much sugar, cream, artificial food flavorings etc. Truly, nutritional therapy is an important part of treatment arsenal of doctors.  Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine said, let the food be your medicine and the medicine be your food.  You are what you eat.  Some say that taking medicine made from synthetic chemicals makes your body (especially the liver and kidney toxic).  The organic activitists, especially Dr. William Kelly says that eating processed food is identified by body as toxin and thus WBC rises.

Some more ideas on food used as medicine:

l.  Jean Carper wrote the book The Food Pharmacy.  There she wrote on phytonutrients and medicinal value of food:    onions, garlic, berries, cruciferous vegetables, nuts, sea weeds, yogurt, tea carrot.

2.  I had an acquaintance whose wife got a lump on her breast;  she is hypertensive too.  I was surprised that the doctor included in her treatment graviola and turmeric.  Another one who is suspected of having leukemia was advised to eat regularly graviola.

3.  Probiotics ie fermented vegetables like kimchi and atchara improves intestinal flora balance of good and bad bacteria.  Gut population affect mental health according to GAPS theory.

4.  So much is written about Genetically Modified food and so much opposition is being mounted vs GMO.  (Read more about this at cheapcures)

5.  Dra. Christine E. V Gonzalez who wrote a book Yes You can Prevent and Control Cancer and who runs an alternative cancer cure center, lists down healthy diet as one of the pillars of cancer treatment.  So with Drs. Kelly and Nicholas Gonzalez.

6.  Junk and fast foods ill effects are well written about and aplenty.  They are said to be cause of obesity and consequently host of lifestyle diseases in USA:    diabetes and heart diseases.

7.  Junk and processed  foods are generally written to be toxic to the body:  the too much salt, food preservatives, artificial food coloring, HFCS  are either toxic and or bad for the body.

8.  Organic foods which are more expensive are said to be better than food coming from beef that is laced with hormones, antibiotics.  Some cows in USA are said to be fed with chicken shit and dead chicken meat.

9.  In the enzyme theory of cancer treatment, foods are supposed to be eaten raw to induce body to produce more enzymes.  Eating meat and protein is to be lessened as it tires the pancreas in releasing enzymes to digest the protein.

10.  Papaya and mangosteen are rich in proteolytic enzymes and supplements body's production of enzyme.

11.  The only two best treatment for diabetes are:   exercise and diet (of food low in GI).  It is not a blood sugar disorder but merely insulin/leptin imbalance which can be corrected by exercise and diet.

12. PHL is rich in medicinal plants and herbs like Charantia and Malunggay.  Corosolic acid in banana controls insulin and hence is useful in body weight reduction.  The top ten medicinal plants are in PHL:  among them are Noni and mangosteen.

"Let the food be the medicine and medicine be your food" -  Hippocrates - father of modern medicine.