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Nutrition Matters Podcast

117: Is Food Medicine?

Nutrition Matters Podcast

Paige Smathers

Weightloss, Eatingdisorder, Kids & Family, Eating, Nutritionist, Nutrition, Health, Dietitian, Health & Fitness, Recovery, Food, Mindfulness

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Hippocrates famously declared: "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food."
 
While this sounds nice and seems harmless, there are important nuances to explore about whether or not food is medicine. There are real implications that this philosophy can bring, and this podcast episode outlines where seeing food as medicine can be a slippery slope and where it can actually lead to poorer health outcomes.
 
Katie Davis, RDN, CD joined me on this episode to share her very personal story of how she struggled—and continues to manage—with her health. She explains her story of an acute battle with severe neurological symptoms and how her unexplained health struggle created personal guilt and shame with food. Was she causing her symptoms? Was it something she was eating? Through years of navigating her health issues, she shares her story of how she sees food now and how she approaches the question of whether or not food is medicine.
 
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Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me today on Nutrition Matters podcast. My name is

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Paige and I'm your host and today I'm sharing a conversation all about

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this question of whether or not food is medicine. So this stems from lots of practical

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experience I have in my work with clients and some of the messaging that they get from well-intentioned family

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members and maybe medical providers about this idea of food being medicine. And I am excited to

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bring you this discussion about this concept of whether or not food is medicine. And we're

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talking about it in terms of Katie Davis,

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who is a new dietitian working with me at my practice positive nutrition. So Katie has a

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unique story to share about how this idea of whether or not food is medicine has affected her

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in her own life. So you get to kind of hear her personal story, which I think is

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really, really fascinating and really interesting. And then we'll also dive into this whole

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