The Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Program is meant to benefit whole families and communities at a time. Patients in the program receive $1 in Health Bucks per day for each person in their family for a period of at least four months.. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/07/24/205124705/nyc-doctors-are-now-prescribing-fruits-and-veggies http://www.wholesomewave.org/our-initiatives/fruit-and-vegetable-prescription-program/

Brings to mind several quotes that have always been compelling food for thought:

“Unless the doctors of today become the nutritionists of tomorrow, the nutritionists of today will become the doctors of tomorrow.” -Alexis Carrel, M.D. (1900)

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.”-Thomas Edison

“Let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food.” –Hippocrates (Father of Medicine)

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“Here’s a newsflash I’m sure won’t surprise you… nothing concocted in a laboratory can ever replace the value of what is found in nature!

Mother Nature is incredibly generous in the way she provides – offering a bounty of fruits and vegetables rich in vitamins, minerals and nutrients to nourish your body so you can enjoy a long healthy life.” —Jake Carney, Founder The Alternative Daily

November 3-7, 2014

“We have created this model with the belief that it can, and should, be replicated at every hospital throughout the U.S.”

The Anderson Campus at St. Luke’s has more than 300 acres of farmland, much of which had historically been farmed conventionally with crops like corn and soy. The hospital administration recognized the impact that providing fresh, local organic produce could have on patient health and approached Rodale Institute to transition the land to organic and farm vegetables to be used in patient meals as well as in the cafeteria…

See Full article at:

Food as Medicine: How One Hospital Is Using Organic Produce to Help Heal Patients

Perhaps the second part of this meme will need a revision soon?

More antioxidants, significant presence of micronutrients and trace minerals not found

in the Standard American Diet of overprocessed and refined junk foods or inorganic vegetables

and fruit, contain more nutrition per calorie, inflict noticeably less toxic load on the body and the body’s

eliminative organs…

What more evidence do we need that organic foods are the way to go?

Plenty, apparently..

 

“We carried out meta-analyses based on 343 peer-reviewed publications that indicate statistically significant and meaningful differences in composition between organic and non-organic crops/crop-based foods”

Thank you and a big shout out to Austin based yoga instructor Erica Vetra,

for this sharing of her wonderful series of stretches to support weight loss

routines and empower fat burning goals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UpWgS7WtGg

Big ups and gushing thank yous to Ocean Robbins for bringing this talk to my attention

William Li presents a new way to think about treating cancer and other diseases: anti-angiogenesis, preventing the growth of blood vessels that feed a tumor. The crucial first (and best) step: Eating cancer-fighting foods that cut off the supply lines and beat cancer at its own game:

“Can we eat to starve cancer?”

   
How is Angiogenesis Important for Health?