The Healing Power of Fresh Foods
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By Ali Brown
Everyone knows the proverbial apple a day keeps the doctor away, but few of us have stopped to consider the truth behind those words.
If we’re ill we grab a pill and ignore the two best medicine cabinets in the house— the fridge and fruit bowl. Some of the most effective treatments are diets rich in fruits and vegetables.
So, if you’re suffering from the sniffles or are having trouble with your tummy, head to the kitchen and grab a banana, a stick of celery, some broccoli, a cabbage, and juice, and munch your way back to health.
This is no revolutionary modern idea; 2,500 years ago, Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, waxed lyrical about the beneficial effects of a good diet when he wrote, “Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.”
He also advised, “Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food.”
Today, the medical profession is slow to give up its reliance on drugs, but there is powerful anecdotal evidence that diet alone has cured people of cancer, heart disease, and other potentially fatal conditions.
Lots of new research from laboratories is released almost daily demonstrating that good food can help the body cure itself.
Fight disease with food
The doors of the food pharmacy are open and more people are realizing that doctors do not have all the answers. Modern medicine is nothing short of miraculous, but it is not winning the war against many of the ailments that plague the planet.
It’s about time that physicians left some room on their plate for a healthy dose of some foods that can fight disease. Food, or more accurately the substances contained inside food, can help to treat and prevent disease.
Consider the case of Kris Carr who was diagnosed with cancer and given only months to live. She defied the odds and treated her fridge as her medicine cabinet and is managing to keep the disease at bay.
She documented her struggle in a powerful, emotional, and at times funny film. She refers to herself as “a cancer babe” and has also written a girlfriend’s guide to cancer called Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips.
Crazy sexy cancer
On February 14, 2003, Carr, then 31, was a model and aspiring actress when she was told she had cancer. Tumors were found in her liver and lungs. They were incurable and inoperable. “Happy Valentine’s Day. You have cancer,” she wrote in her journal.
Carr has epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE), a cancer so rare that only one in a million suffers the illness. Her doctors could do nothing other than advise her to wait and see what happens.
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