Food Isn’t Medicine

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Dr Wolrich is not saying that everyone should stuff their faces every day with doughnuts and hang the consequences – but he is saying that food should not be used instead of medicine. When "raw" lifestyle was out of bounds I asked for Snackwell 100 calorie packs, light yogurt, weight control oatmeal packets, etc. He addresses nuance and privilege too, the HAES approach and all sorts of things I hadn’t encountered or heard of before even if I thought I had a fair amount of prior knowledge, there’s always more to learn and I learnt so much from this book. Last year I went to see a nutritionist who ran various tests – and despite being classed as morbidly obese per my BMI (I was shocked to read in the book how BMI was originally set up – and the spuriously random way levels were set) my visceral fat was only just above the normal range. Evidence based, so some useful information in here, and a helpful refreshing take that cuts through the oversaturated diet market- however the book felt a lot like your mate going “just eat the cookie”- but that might not actually be the best thing for me.

The book concentrates on enlightening the reader about the fallacies in the “nutrib*llocks” nutrition fake news we are often fed by the media and those in the diet industry.It: finalmente un libro scritto da un vero medico, deciso a fare il proprio lavoro: salvare vite, invece di sacrificare la salute delle persone in nome del profitto. Needless to say, once he's dissected the original 'evidence base' behind these things, there is very little that he actually finds factual. Including more nutritious food rather than trying to exclude less nutritious items is going to both improve your health and benefit your relationship with food. Hippocrates’s maxim is likely a misquotation — one that many people have a vested interest in continuing to promote. The book title itself is a bit misleading, as is the way he exaggerates the use of the "food is medicine" cliché.

I really wish baby me could have read this book as someone with multiple chronic illnesses who was regularly recommended diet as a solution by various doctors, sometimes even specialists. A must-read for those wanting to unlearn the toxic ideologies and beliefs we have been taught about ourselves by the diet industry! As a fellow healthcare professional I am in awe, and not only has this started me on a more positive journey but my reviews with patients are now resulting in so much more, pulling away from the rubbish BMI and more towards being healthy and feeling good.because it can't be the alkaline water crazies lol), I'm left knowing that we all just have this one life and just do the best we absolutely can without driving ourselves up a wall during the one precious life we are given.