Food Isn’t Medicine

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He approaches every topic with evidence, rationality and empathy and his presence on the internet is much needed.

Wu wants to see food as medicine become an intrinsic part of healthcare, in prevention and treatment of disease. We spend billions and billions of dollars every year paying for medications or paying for surgeries that are essentially downstream consequences of unhealthy diets,” Wu says. They’re a little bit further ahead than us in terms of using this food-as-medicine concept and providing healthy meals and groceries to particularly disadvantaged communities,” Lambert says. He follows a Health at Every Size® approach and encourages his patients to have a healthy, happy relationship with their bodies and food.Philanthropic organisations such as the Rockefeller Foundation are putting money into addressing this too.

Wu and colleagues recently conducted a study involving 50 people with type 2 diabetes who were finding it hard to afford enough food. He wades through nutritional science and dissects every popular diet and debunks a lot of diet myths explaining why so much nutrition and diet advice is based on inaccuracies, bad science or just straight up lies. Both MNT and a nutritious diet can help improve health outcomes, but neither is a replacement for health care. I hated that word at first, but it's kind of grown on me in the sense that I have a platform and I am quite happy to influence!It's all what Dr Joshua Wolrich defines as 'nutribollocks' and he is on a mission to set the record straight. Joshua Wolrich BSc (Hons) MBBS MRCS, is a full-time NHS surgeon in the United Kingdom with a passion for helping people improve their relationship with food. Dr Wolrich is both serious and funny, he has taken great care to explain different diet concepts from many different perspectives allowing you to make up your own mind but also staying non biased and evidence based - great way to educate us to make food choices from the place of freedom, rather than fear. That diet has been shown to slow down or even reverse the progression of type 2 diabetes and help prevent it happening in the first place.

Sunlight, dust, chemicals, metal, plants, animals, and other things we’re exposed to daily can contribute to the onset of pretty much every illness, from kidney disease to infertility to skin cancer. Although yes, some cancers are more directly linked to behavior; for example, smoking is the primary cause of lung cancer.The “food as medicine” approach to health management challenges the construct of conventional medicine, which relies primarily on technological medical advancements to manage health and disease with pharmaceutical drugs.

Wolrich states some of the finest minds in medicine and nutrition in this country are simply spreading "Propaganda"! But through personal and professional experience, I’ve found this to be at best shortsighted and truly rooted in elitism,” she says. Decades of campaigns on healthy eating have failed to make much of a dent in Australia’s worsening rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes.

It’s not going to be getting one of five visits and a prescription; it needs that whole support structure.