Let Food Be Thy Medicine

“Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine shall be thy food”—an old quotation of unknown origins often misattributed to Hippocrates—is in the news today for two reasons.;First, the new Secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is very focused on the health effects of the U.S. food supply (see;What Kennedy Gets Right About The Chemicals In Our Food;and;Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. To Announce Ban On Artificial Food Dyes).

The other is the growing body of evidence of the effect of food . . .