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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New York, NY
Columbia University Press
2008
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Table of Contents:
- Rethinking food and medicine
- Food as medicine
- Healing foods and longevity
- Dietary prescriptions and comfort foods
- Medicine as food
- Nutraceuticals and functional foods
- Genetically modified foods and drugs
- Eating and medicating