Eating well to stay well

Food as medicine

By Culinate staff

October 14, 2010

Over at the Eating Well magazine website, Rachel Johnson looked recently at five foods purported to help with common ailments, including cranberry juice for urinary-tract infections, ginger for nausea, and yogurt for yeast infections. Do they work — and is there science to back up the claims? Yes — mostly. Writes Johnson:

But even in the absence of rigid scientific proof, I’m not opposed to trying the occasional food cure, if it sounds sensible and uses real foods in reasonable amounts. As the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates said, “Let food be your medicine, and your medicine be food.”