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Food, medicine, and the quest for good health nutrition, medicine, and culture

Drawing on Medical Texts and food therapy practices from around the world and throughout history, Nancy N. Chen locates old and new crossovers between food and medicine in different social and cultural contexts. The consumption of spices, sugar, and salt was once linked to specific healing propertie...

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Main Author: Chen, Nancy N.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Columbia University Press 2008
Subjects:
Diet therapy > Social aspects
Functional foods > Social aspects
Food habits
Medical anthropology
Diet Therapy
Food Habits
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