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The dose is everything

#600 - Is Food Medicine?

The dose is everything

Ben Coomber

Science, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

“Food is thy Medicine” is a famous quote, but is it true, or could it actually be a harmful phrase that alienates the nutrition industry from the medical industry? In our industry we often complain that modern medicine isn’t holistic enough, that it doesn’t treat the whole person, but this is unfair, and modern medicine is actually doing the work it needs to do to save lives. Join Tom and I as we go down the rabbit hole and explore how this feeds into the Healthism debate, where ‘how’ we approach anything changes everything, why the EatWell plate positions balance in the way it does, why ‘diet systems’ prevail over a wider balanced nutritional approach, and why much of the blue zone healthy ageing data is over simplified in its message to us living a long and healthy life.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Everyone, Ben, come a radio, how on earth are you doing?

0:04.7

Hope you're having an awesome day.

0:06.0

So today we're going to continue along the topic that we've

0:10.1

kind of been rambling in and around for a while.

0:13.7

And that's the topic of health, how nutrition plays a role,

0:17.5

how a lot of the social narratives that we see are playing a role

0:22.6

like healthy, health at any size, the body positivity movement,

0:27.6

the healthism debate that we had and then the conversation that Tom had

0:32.2

with Dr. Gabrielle Fondaro, which I thought was fascinating.

0:35.7

That was a two hour proper ramble down the health rabbit hole.

0:40.6

And today we've coined sort of the topic is food medicine,

0:44.8

food isn't medicine, which is a really famous quote you would have seen

0:48.8

at food is medicine.

0:50.8

So Tom is with me.

0:52.8

Right, Tom?

0:53.8

Yeah, Ben, how are you getting up?

0:55.8

I'm all right.

0:56.4

You know, I'm decent, I'm solid.

1:00.3

Yeah, so this, I do think it's worth just addressing the court to begin with.

1:05.6

So the court, I'm sure the listeners at home will have heard this before.

1:10.6

Let's do by thy medicine, let medicine be thy food.

1:13.6

To tribute it to Hippocrates, who's like the father of medicine

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