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Edited by Ann M. Coulston, Cheryl L. Rock, and Elaine R. Monsen. 801 pp. San Diego, Calif., Academic Press, 2001. $99.95. ISBN 0-12-193155-2.

Hippocrates said, "Let food be your medicine," and hundreds of Internet sites echo his maxim, usually as part of a sales pitch for supplements, pet foods, or other products. Diet was indeed the cornerstone of medical practice for some 2000 years, but for most of that time patients died like flies anyway, and the best one could say for the various dietary treatments was that they killed fewer people than the other medical and surgical procedures of the day. In our evidence-based era, doctors have grown skeptical of Hippocrates's precept, and many conditions that were formerly treated with diet are . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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