Article #1: Lack of awareness of the importance of food
"May your food be your only medicine"(Hippocrates).
This message is largely neglected in modern medical practice and the importance of totally undervalued diet. The current conceptions of dietetics remain, essentially, based on the only balance carbohydrates / lipids/ proteins, with a sufficient intake of vitamins and calcium. The importance of trace elements was lately recognized.
Now, everyone knows that the constituents of our body are regularly renewed and that the substances necessary for this renewal are obviously drawn from our food. Not to mention, of course, the energy necessary for their operation that our cells pull from it. Hence this paradox, expressed by Dr. Seignalet in his remarkable book "Food or the Third Medicine": "How is it, with the important progress made in many sciences (medical), that we are still incapable to elucidate the mechanism of so many diseases? ". In other words, not only to heal them but also to understand the genesis??
Eating is a vital and constant phenomenon. Itis simple common sense to see it as the main vector of our state of health. One of the reasons, perhaps, for which the study of dietary factors has been so neglected is the double or triple competence it requires: that of the physician, the biologist and the clinician. Hence the immense interest of the work of Dr. Seignalet, who for more than thirty years of career has conducted these three functions head-on. According to him, the challenge is clearly to move from a quantitative vision to a qualitative vision of nutrition, throughthe knowledge of the basic biological and chemical processes involved in different types of foods. Specialist’s case? Not only. A brief overview ofman's dietary changes over the ages can already make a lot of sense.