Food as medicine: importance of nutrition in disease
‘‘Get your health from the farm, not from the pharmacy.’’ That’s not necessarily what you’d expect to hear at an international medical conference. Especially one attended by some of the biggest names in the world of medicine and nutrition. Nor do you expect this declaration to be received with clapping, whooping and cheering from a respectable crowd. A crowd of multidisciplinary healthcare professionals and for it to be tweeted and retweeted ad infinitum. However, the title of the conference should give this some context. ‘Food. The Forgotten Medicine’ was convened by the College of Medicine (9 June 2016). The conference…