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Article: Lipids for functional foods and nutraceuticals.(Book Review)
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- Chemistry and Industry
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- November 17, 2003
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Frank Gunstone (ed) Bridgwater: The Oily Press, 2003
Pages 322 85 [pounds sterling]/$146 ISBN 0 9531949 3 0
Centuries ago our ancestors proclaimed and believed medicinal properties of foods. The concept that foods may possess the ability to prevent disease and be used as treatment for ailments dates back about 2500 years, when the Greek physician Hippocrates proclaimed: 'Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.' He named 300 to 400 healing plants, and is considered to be the father of modern medicine,
Early evidence of the medicinal application of plants includes archaeological discoveries: a 60 000 year-old Neanderthal burial ground ...