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The video, Food as Medicine, provides us with a look into the growing movement on how foods can be used to heal chronic illnesses and disease. It takes us into the lives of three people with chronic illnesses and their journey to discovering how their dietary choices will either build better health or continue to destroy it. The video also explores how our current healthcare system makes little effort to address the growing body of evidence on just how important diet and nutrition is in our overall health. The video touches on how our society’s culture creates an environment that doesn’t support health and wellness. According to Sarah Ballantyne, Ph.D., improving our healthcare outcomes requires the “need to change our education on food, change the food supply, change how our food is grown, change our access to food, and change the cost of foods so that healthy foods are subsidized.” Kent Thornburg, …show more content…

It is unfortunate that it takes some sort of health crisis for the majority of people to start to make changes to their diet/lifestyle. The video brings out an excellent point and one which I had to endure; even though we have books and the internet with all kinds of information to educate us, sorting through and determining what is right for one’s unique situation more than likely requires professional guidance and support in order to be successful. As with the three individuals in the video, making lasting changes is often very difficult, but it is knowing either how bad you will feel after eating unhealthy foods or knowing what diseases they can cause that will be the driving force in making changes stick. It was not until I took the time to cook with whole foods and listen to my body’s response to them that I started to develop a healthy relationship with food and manage to stay on

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