Nutrition therapy is a system of healing based on the belief that food, as nature intended, provides the medicine we need to obtain and maintain a state of health: Our food is our medicine and our medicine is our food. This holistic modality combines science (biochemistry and nutrition) with naturopathy (natural, drug-free medicine) in order to return patients to good health. Many conditions can be relieved effectively with nutrition therapy, including chronic fatigue, energy loss, insomnia, depression, backache, skin complaints, asthma, and headaches. Nutrition therapy also is beneficial for those with no specific illness, but who want to maintain a state of optimum health. It is safe for babies and children as well as adults, and the change of eating patterns that is typically prescribed usually has far fewer side effects than synthetic medicines.
Nutrition as the key to good health is the all-embracing fundamental principle used since the time of the famous Greek doctor and founder of western medicine, Hippocrates, to help people stay at their personal peak of energy and vitality. Today, new insights of food scientists play a significant role in the practice of nutrition therapy as preventative medicine.
Source: P. Quinn, Discover Nutritional Therapy, Nutritional Therapy & Natural Medicine
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