Food Is Your Best Medicine
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: July 12, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780345351838
Subjects: Nutrition; Diet in disease; Consumer Health; Health/Fitness; Alternative Therapies; Health & Fitness / Nutrition; Diet / Health / Fitness
First sentence: Twenty-five hundred years ago on the island of Cos in classical Greece a bearded physician-teacher, Hippocrates, sat in the shade of an Oriental plane tree on a lovely hillside and admonished his wide-eyed circle of medical students in one of his most pithy and precise aphorisms: "Thy food shall be thy remedy."