can you really heal yourself with food?

Answer 1

Yes, check out this website for more info

http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC063364/

Answer 2

Depends on your belief i would say. Chinese medicine uses food as medicine.
Since i've stopped eating wheat i have less bloating and less wind.
If i stay of the dairy my lungs don't throw up so much phlegm and my tongue doesn't have a permanent white coating on it.
Liquirice does calm me down internally.

Chinese medicine also uses herbs the forgotten foods. They call them the Forgotten Foods and they have been known to shift my pneumonia in 3 days flat.

It's not a big deal though. There's no profit margins in food being explored as medicine you see?.
And that is the real reason the medical establishment is so reluctant to entertain the idea.
Here's a link to food energetics from a Chinese Medicine point of view should you be interested:
http://www.aaaom.org/FOOD%20ENERGETICS.htm

I know what i believe.

Answer 3

Yes, there is 1000s of years of scientific data proving this to be true.

Some diseases are, by definition, nutritional deficiencies so the person who says no is already showing their ignorance.

According to the AMA in a JAMA article published in 2001 (or 2002), most people suffer from mild nutrient deficiencies. They recommended that doctors begin to recommend dietary supplements to their patients.

In the UK, there has been a reemergence of Scurvy and in the US Rickets is on the rise. There are both diseases caused by chronic, long-term orthomolecular deficiency.

The National Academy of Sciences stated in 2002 that we need about double the amount of fruits and vegetables listed on the food pyramid for minimal antioxidant support. That's about 20 servings of raw fruits and vegetables a day.

So if you think you have all the nutrition you need, you probably haven't studied the data very well. ;-)

Answer 4

God created our bodies to stay healed. He created everything for our healing in natural foods. Everything we eat these days contains hormones,preservatives,dyes,,etc. Our bodies suffer from feeding it these things. Even the fruits and vegetables we buy today are treated with chemicals and grown in soil that has been abused by over use, therefore, our fruits and vegetables don;t have the minerals, vitamins and enzymes that our bodies need. God said that the soil should rest every seven years to renew itself of nutrients. People usually don't do that when they grow food for the consumer. Buy organic. It is grown without dangerous chemicals of hormones. I know it cost more, but isn't your health worth it?

Answer 5

No every person will heal with just food. But its a good place to start. At least with food you will have more energy to tackle the rest of the problems.

Answer 6

not really, but is offers temporaty relief. Food taste good making you feel good. But that does not heal you inside at all. I love foo and had a theory that dessert is only stressed spelt backwards. so everytime I stressed, I ate and guess how much I wiegh now.
You body has a way of healing it's self when you eat healthier. I still love my burgers but eat a lot healtheir. So next time you feel a need for comfort eating, munch on a carrot stick. Oh what the hell it is your body do what ever you want with it!

Answer 7

Yes, here is an article about curing with food.
Also, there is a book called "Eat and Heal" by the Editors of FC&A Medical Publishing that's great to refer to to see what exact foods heal which problems.

http://myalternative-health.info/the-miracle-cure-all-food/antioxidant-miracles/02

Answer 8

food has proven from a very long time ago to be benificial for many things. Depending on what illness/ problem you have food could almost certainly help you. Everyone should stick to a safe, healthy diet and drink plenty of fluids. This will boost your immune system up, making your body fight virus's and illness's easier. Food can be benificial for external use also, i-e Yoghurt spreads over sun burn/ eczema can cause great relief and as it contains live healthy bacteria it can work towards the healing process.

Answer 9

I think it would make a big difference,however, I've seen meat-eating,(diet) coke drinking, junk eating people whom I respect much more than some vegeterians I would ever do.
I think our thoughts & attitudes are much more important.
Also I found these article on healing foods I thought might be of interest.

Answer 10

Yes, provided that your 'injury' is hunger, or possibly a deficiency of a required nutrient.

Very few people in the modern Western world do have nutrient deficiencies, though: even a relatively poor diet is hugely more nutritious than the meals eaten by our ancestors. Our problem today is mostly one of overabundance - of sugar and fats.

Our addiction to sugar made sense back in the jungle, where occasional ripe fruit or rare stolen honey was all we could hope for. Now that we can make the stuff by the ton for pennies, we gorge on it, and it's damn dangerous.

But your question was probably related to the idea of food as medicine. You should be careful of this notion - especially the idea that there's a food to cure every ailment. Simply put, bodies are designed to extract just three things from most of the stuff we eat: hydrocarbons, carbohydrates and proteins. The first two are fuel, and the last is building blocks. All three are broken down to their simplest form by digestion before being absorbed: fatty acids, glucose and amino acids, respectively.

That's not the entire story, of course. There are a few specific chemicals that are so abundant in our diet that we don't need to build them ourselves: vitamins. And there are a few elements we need tiny traces of to build special chemicals - like iodine to make the growth hormone thyroxin, which we acquire from salt and seafood.

There are those who claim that every malady can be cured by a selected herb. Consider the logic of this: it would mean that every herb would, for some reason, have to manufacture different human-specific medicines. Why would they?

Which begs the question of how it is that several medicines are, in fact, derived from plants: morphine, aspirin, digitalis, ephedrine to name a few. Why would poppies, willows, foxglove and ma huang make these human-beneficial substances? The answer becomes plain when you examine the way these plants would interact with animals in nature.

In the natural environment animals don't as a rule use plants for medicine - they eat them, killing them in the process. A plant that evolves a way to reduce animal consumption will benefit by surviving.

But neither deadly poison nor complete indigestibility is ideal: animals produce useful nitrogen and fertiliser that makes them valuable to keep around. The optimum situation is to allow animals a certain amount of feeding, and then curtail it. And that's just what the standard plant medicines do:

Opium poppies produce drowsiness and nausea in animals that eat them. Willow causes severe indigestion and ulcers. Foxglove, Deadly Nightshade, Ephedra, Coca and others produce adrenalin-like effects that kill appetite. Plants aren't trying to help us - they (or evolution) just want to avoid being eaten. But the delicate balance of chemistry required to engineer animal behaviour so finely means that under the right circumstances the substances may have therapeutic uses.

(Incidentally, it also suggests that the pharmaceutical industry's long search for a perfect, side-effect-free appetite suppressant is likely to go on for a while: if plant evolution has failed to achieve it, it won't be easy.)

CD

Answer 11

My gran a very practical woman always said good hygiene and a good diet was the basis for good health she said onions were natures antibiotic and used lots in her cooking which was second to none. Another of her maxims was feed a cold and hunger a colic and you will seldom need a doctor