The Six Week Diet That Changed Everything
As a relatively healthy person, I had no intention of dieting. When I did, to support my wife, our lives—not just our waistbands—transformed. Here’s what we learned.
Hippocrates was human history’s first physician, establishing medicine as a profession, separate from theurgy (the supernatural) and philosophy, in Ancient Greece. 2,400 years ago, he wrote an oath that every aspiring physician today must first take, before being granted a license to treat patients. Consistent with Greek virtue ethics, it forms the moral framework to medical practice.
Hippocrates was also famous for uttering, “Let food be thy medicine.” In fact, medical practice in the Greco-Roman era focused on restoring balance to a dis-eased (physically imbalanced) body — the polar opposite of our modern focus on targeted acts of treatment. Wikipedia writes:
“In Ancient Greece and Rome… medical intervention, therefore, was purposed with goal of restoration of harmony rather than waging a war against disease. Surgery was regarded by Greek and Roman physicians as extreme and damaging while prevention was seen as the crucial first step to healing almost all ailments. In both prevention and treatment of disease in classical medicine, food and diet was…
