my mind in a ball of uninspired mess, while applying for dietetic schools. I turned to find some inspiration, a little fuel for the most awful process of uni applications. I found myself browsing google reader (this is what you do, folks, when you don't own a tv and are exhausted from mindless facebook page clicking).
What I found was an article about growing food allergies to the additives in our foods, which contained a little blurb about Hippocrates, who said "Let food be your medicine, and medicine be your food." So this prompted me to investigate this guy Hippocrates, who it seems I have some ideology in common with.
He founded the Hippocratic School of Medicine, which established medicine as a distictly seperate from other fields of study (such as philosophy). He also advanced clinical practices of medicine and formed ethical guidelines for practitioners, amoung many other things. So, modern medicine's roots were planted and it grew up and away. So, we all knew he was the father of modern medicine, but I had never put one and two together that he also had such lovely ideals about natural medicines. So the hypocrisy I found is that though he had lovely ideals about natural foods being our medicines, he always laid the ground work for modern western medicine, which has all but forgotten that food IS indeed part of the overall equation of human health.
My time-out to learn a blurb about the speaker of the above truth, gave me a boost. So, what do we do to bring that ideal of food = medicine back into our world. For me, I eat. I eat and cook and feed my family good foods to nourish us. I also attempt to attend nutrition school to become a dietician, so that hopefully I can get paid to teach others how to feed themselves and their families according to Hippocrates' ideals (and hopefully someday our modern communities too!)
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