Food--Your Miracle Medicine
Chapter One
The Miracle Of Food
To most of us, miracle drugs are the brainstorms of pharmaceutical geniuses -- magic bullets concocted in a laboratory to cure all our ailments, large and small. But many scientists are increasingly engaged in a search for a far different treasure of drugs that were created on this planet millions of years ago. These drugs come from other living creatures and plants. They are the stuff we put in our mouths, often unconsciously, every day.
These substances, too, are miraculous -- awesome in their ability to affect our well-being. In the larger scheme of things, the miracles these food essences continually perform inside our cells, outside our awareness, are very tiny. But they are major miracles in the lives of cells, changing forever their destiny -- and consequently our destiny, with their cumulative effects.
Who can say it is not a minor miracle that garlic can kill cancer cells? That substances in spinach can imprison and paralyze the virus that otherwise would cause cervical cancer? That an obscure compound in asparagus and avocados in test tube experime ... read full excerpt from Food: Your Miracle Medicine ebook
