This familiar quote summarizes my motivation to enter the field of nutrition. There is truth in food as medicine. Born into a Hispanic family that love food but misunderstood the value of it, I entered my adult life battling Celiac Disease. As a result, I quickly turned to the extensive literature on traditional and contemporary human diets finding a way to cure myself or just live pain free. In my discovery, our society has lost any respect toward how we fuel our life and soul. We replace sugary, fast food with whole food nutrients consequently finding ourselves detach from our health and nutritional
This familiar quote summarizes my motivation to enter the field of nutrition. There is truth in food as medicine. Born into a Hispanic family that love food but misunderstood the value of it, I entered my adult life battling Celiac Disease. As a result, I quickly turned to the extensive literature on traditional and contemporary human diets finding a way to cure myself or just live pain free. In my discovery, our society has lost any respect toward how we fuel our life and soul. We replace sugary, fast food with whole food nutrients consequently finding ourselves detach from our health and nutritional