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Protective Foods, Protected Patients
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A shift from curative to preventive health by prescribing protective foods to patients to improve human health and protect the planet. This might lead to reducing healthcare costs and incentivize food-health research.
For this breakthrough to be achieved, nutrition awareness needs to be increased among doctors and they need to be incentivized to prescribe protective foods.
For this breakthrough to be achieved, nutrition awareness needs to be increased among doctors and they need to be incentivized to prescribe protective foods.
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We need to get tools that can do this for food as part of the transition to our making the perfect nourishment.
(https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/grant/plasmid-curing-ethiopian-barley-natural-food-approach-reduce-plasmid-mediated-antibiotic).
I agree 100% that for this breakthrough to be achieved, nutrition awareness needs to be (dramatically) increased.
Rather than re-educating over-worked doctors and their patients and going up against Big Pharma, it would be more useful to focus on educating our youth on functional foods and nutrition in general, starting in primary school.
Many parents pay attention to what their children are being taught, which would increase the impact of the efforts.
Using low-cost, yet sophisticated hydroponic systems, Science Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) programs could be introduced early, giving young students hands-on experience growing food, experimenting with hybrids, photoperiods, learning about chemistry, nutrition, math, software, engineering of the systems, business, and more. This scratches the surface of possibilities.
An online pharmacopeia accessible by anyone could help raise awareness of food and nutrition, for curative as well as preventative health. An educated populace may turn to a nutritionist before going to a doctor.
The current recommendation—as outlined by Harvard University’s Health Eating Plate model—is that half of our plate should be composed of certain foods. Changing the composition of our plate would bring a better balance of nutrients in our bodies. That rebalance would require doubling production of nutrient-rich foods by 2050, and ensuring that increased production happens in a sustainable and equitable manner.
Prescribing healthy foods could bring cost-effective benefits and can be a potential and achievable breakthrough. Functional food as medicine programs shall be encouraged and must be integrated into the health care system which in return brings down health economics ratio.
The consumer’s focus is already shifting from treatment-based remedies to preventive remedies. Gradually, it is clearly understood that no drug can be harmless because such drugs are not natural food, but processed and artificial, and the body tends to reject those in the first place and is not prepared for an unknown chemical composition which may trigger with drug.
Few studies for reference are linked hereunder:
http://ijpsr.com/bft-article/nutraceuticals-a-slow-transition-from-preventive-to-curative-healthcare-and-the-perceptions-among-physicians-and-patients-a-study-of-south-delhi-in-india/?view=fulltext
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002761