Explaining the Relation between Nutrition and Room Temperature Based on Iranian Medicine

BACKGROUND Nutrition is one of the most effective components of human's health and nutritional practices have an important role in a healthy nutrition. Iranian traditional medicine, which is one of the holistic medical schools, has special approaches related to effective environmental factors in healthy nutrition. Identifying these special approaches is helpful to the medical community. The aim of this study was to examine the relation between nutrition and room temperature during different seasons based on Iranian traditional medicine. To that end, its precise scientific aspects and the approach of the traditional medicine practitioners was analyzed to provide a new pattern in nutrition with respect to the weather. METHODS Traditional medicine literature including Ibn-e Sina's Qanoon, Zakhirey-e Kharazm shahi, Kāmil al-Sinaā al Tibbiya al-Maliki, mofarreh al-gholoob, Hefz o sehe Naseri, were studied. Differences and similarities were reviewed and summarized. In order to analyze the data, scientific resources of modern medicine such as Krause's food and nutrition principles were applied. RESULTS According to traditional medicine's approaches and the new scientific findings, there are significant differences between the type of regime, quality, and quantity of meals during different seasons of a year and in different room temperatures. Considering the above-mentioned differences, it plays an important role in a healthy nutrition. CONCLUSION Adhering to a good regime and vigilance on a healthy nutrition would provide a new pattern regime and ultimately lead to healthy people. Therefore, it is important to focus on this topic to promote a healthy society.