Food will be our First Medicine

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Ancient Food Habits Dictate that Food Can Be Medicine but Medicine Cannot Be “Food”!!

Background: Extensive surveys of several population settlements in different parts of India-covering plains, mountains, valleys, river banks and deeper areas of forests at different altitudes-between 1968 and 2016 demonstrated that the basic vital need of hunger is being fulfilled since antiquity by plants in the wild. Methods: Based on collections, consultations with local population personnel...

Will the recession be bad for our health? It depends.

The recent financial and economic crisis has raised major concerns in the public health community that death, illness and disability will rise in both rich and poor countries across the globe, and that the operation of health systems will be compromised both by increased demand for treatment and reduced health budgets. Such fears are supported by, among others, a wealth of epidemiological evide...

The future of cancer prevention: will our workforce be ready?

At no other time in our recent history has the need for cancer prevention been more urgent. Worldwide, cancer is poised to overtake heart disease as the leading cause of mortality (1). In the United States, where cancer mortality rates are gaining on those of heart disease (2), recent reports project serious shortages by 2020 of oncology health care providers available to treat and manage the c...

Our fight against leprostigma will be limited to Brazil.

"Hanseniasis" is the medical term introduced in the State of S. Paulo, Brazil (1967) to initiate the liberation of a common physical disease caused by Myco. hansenii 1 from the dinosauruslike size and weight of the terror, ignorance, superstition, stigma and sensationalism perpetually yoked to the pernicious, degrading and loathsome pejorative "leprosy". The new medical name rapidly spread to o...