/oss/taxonomy/term/6834/all en /oss/article/critical-thinking-health-and-nutrition/can-you-eat-beat-disease <p>Just about any publication that explores the role of diet in disease invokes Hippocrates’ famous dictum, “Let food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food.” Actually, there is no record of the famous ancient Greek physician ever having said this, although it is clear from the writings of the Hippocratic authors that Greeks did believe that disease and food were linked. “Hippocratic authors” is the correct terminology because historians concur that the works attributed to Hippocrates are compilations of his own writings and those of a number of his followers.</p> Wed, 19 Apr 2023 15:11:44 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 9482 at /oss