Food does not only deliver food into the body to help repair the suffering and wear him bring energy, heat and matter. Besides being the primary fuel, along with water and air, for the body to function properly, can help you live longer and better when properly chosen.
“Let your food be your medicine and your medicine your food”, said around twenty-five centuries ago the Greek scholar Hippocrates of Kos, considered by the history books as the father of modern medicine in the Western world.
Their concept is still applied today, particularly in the more naturalistic side of medicine, which has made the “nutritional therapy” one of its pillars.
Scientific research continually adds new tools and medical evidence in this branch, like the recent “Study Erasmus, University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, which recommends a range of foods that must be present in the diet to strengthen the body and maintain health.
According to the medical nutritionist Esther Peace, “to maintain a diet of belonging wine, fish, black chocolate, fruits, vegetables, almonds and garlic, increased life expectancy on average 6.6 years in men and women in five years, according to the Dutchman work.