How Diet is Related to Health Principles of Natural Health Care
The Greek physician Hippocrates, who attended both human and
animal patients and is regarded as the one of the founders of
the art of medicine, regarded nutrition as central to the
successful prevention and treatment of disease. His dictum was
that, without good nutrition, there can be no good health. This
approach continued down the ages, until, in the twentieth
century, the science of medicine and nutrition became polarised.
The most obvious illustration of the link between nutrition and
medicine is the one provided by the immune system. Poor
nutrition leads to a weakening of the immune system which
provides protection against the thousands of potentially harmful
organisms which challenge all individuals every day. Modern
medical science is only just beginning to re-examine this link.
1)Good health is the natural state of the body, but nutrition
must be optimal for this to prevail. 2) The body will tend
towards homeostasis or self healing which