Yours food shall be your medicine-
Hippocrates Diet plays a vital role in the maintenance of good health in the prevention & cure of disease. "The right kind of food is the most important single factor in the promotion of health & the wrong kind of food is the most important single factor in the promotion of disease." The human body builds up and maintains healthy cells, tissues, glands and organs only with the help of various nutrients. The body cannot perform any of its functions, be they metabolic, hormonal, mental, physical or chemical without specific nutrients. The food which provides these nutrients is, one of the most essential factors in building and maintaining health. The other essential factors are that, these nutrients must also be appropriately utilized by the body.
Nutrition which depends on food is also of utmost importance in the cure of disease. The primary cause of disease is a weakened organism or lowered resistance in the body, arising from the adoption of a faulty nutritional pattern.
Research shows that diseases produced by combination of deficiencies can be corrected when all the nutrients are supplied, provided irreparable damage has not been done. A well-balanced diet is thus of utmost importance of good health & the healing of diseases .Such a diet should be made up of foods which in combination would supply all the essential nutrients. It has been found that a diet which contains liberal quantities of seeds, nuts & grains, Veg & fruits would provide adequate amounts of all the essential nutrients. |
