The Dietary Causes of Degenerative Diseases

摘要: For a very long time, food has been recognized as being important in the development of disease, at least back to time Hippocrates 2500 years ago when he said, “Whoever gives these things (food) no consideration, and is ignorant them, how can understand diseases man?” Much later, 1849, John Hughes Bennett, Senior Professor Clinical Medicine, whose textbook on medicine appears have standard its day Britain, pursued idea that dietary fat was causation cancer first stated that, “The circumstances which diminish obesity, tendency formation fat, would seem priori be opposed cancerous tendency” (p. 250) (1), then 1865, urged “In carcinoma... diminution this element (fat) should aimed at” (2). In more modern times, studies Tannenbaum his colleagues (2–4) during 1940s 1950s role nutrition tumors experimental animals research Ancel Keys diet cardiovascular disease (5,6) often assigned landmark status.