Buy a MetroFarm Radio Episode on CD

Show #621: LET YOUR MEDICINE BE YOUR FOOD
Guests: University of California Medical Anthropologist Nancy Chen
Subject: Hippocrates said, “Let your medicine be your food, and let your food be your medicine.” But Hippocrates was yesterday. Today we take pharmaceutical medicines, and they lead us to ask…. Why did we separate our food from our medicine?
Topics include a look at cultures in which food is still being used as medicine; the impact government and industry have on the use of food as medicine; and how foods and medicines are coming back together as nutraceuticals and genetically modified organisms (GMOs).