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It is so well said, you are what you eat.

Even fitness experts highlight this often; it is only 20% of physical exercise that determines your body’s condition. Rest 20% is food.

As healthcare professionals, especially as a pharmacist, diet is something we talk about so rarely being always busy studying and preaching drugs.

Aging is an inflammatory process and most of the state of being diseased is also an inflammatory condition. With inappropriate inflammatory drugs we are always loading our bodies with even more inflammation and that is when a bucket of drugs is needed to be poured to calm those inflammations.

That is why, I believe, nutritionists should be given a position in clinical settings to reach an optimum patient therapeutic outcome. With the evolvement of well-researched concepts of therapeutic diet, disease-modifying diet, or inflammatory diet, nutritionists can contribute a lot not just from patients’ safety perspective but also to educate other healthcare professionals about the importance of diet in quick recovery and long-term well-being.

The therapeutic outcome of a patient should be teamwork. I hope people from the health fraternity and policy-making positions understand this soon.

Treating with food is a holistic approach to returning to nature and it is beautifully stated: “Nature is the best therapy”.

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