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Perspectives of Dietetic and Antioxidant Medicinal Plants by Subrata Saha, Dilip De Sarker, Manas Ranjan Saha, is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Modern food habits, vis-a-vis lifestyle, has started taking its toll in the form of obesity, depression, auto-immune diseases, spondylosis, arthritis, cardiac disorders, insomnia, cancer, diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, osteoporosis and many other ailments. Keeping pace with the demand for lifestyle food, food companies are producing more and more synthetic food or processed food. This is one dimensional food, i.e. food for food's sake. We are on the verge of forgetting that food has other roles to serve in our body, mind and soul too. Food has other dimensions to act, i.e. to serve as medicine as well. The concept of functional food or nutraceuticals, though it sounds new, has its roots in the traditional food habits of great cultures like Indian, Chinese, Mediterranean or Greek, which have survived thousands of years of trials and errors. Hippocrates (c. 460—c. 370 BC), the great Greek philosopher, had said "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food" Therefore, we should go back to basics and eat only food that possesses drug properties as well. A host of food plants are available around us which have the capacity to alleviate several modern day life-style diseases. The t

Who reads Perspectives of Dietetic and Antioxidant Medicinal Plants?

Author

Subrata Saha, Dilip De Sarker, Manas Ranjan Saha,

Publisher

Notion Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9789384878955

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Education, Studying & Test Preparation