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Healthy eating is important - we all know that, and this fact is already conveyed to kindergarten children today. Campaigns such as the "healthy snack" are intended to raise awareness among the youngest of the importance of good, wholesome nutrition. The right food can help you stay healthy and can also help you recover if you are ill. What is it about food as medicine that you currently hear and read so much about in the media? Can you really "eat healthy"? And what about nutrigenomics and Nutri epigenetics? The BESSERwisser did research.

Eating in disease prevention and healing

Hippocrates knew from ancient times that food should be our medicine. The most famous ancient doctor had already recognized that food can help prevent or cure diseases. There are countless examples of this, and many foods have been used as home remedies for diseases for generations. For example, each of us knows the good old chicken soup, which can work wonders and prevent wonders in the event of illness. Rusk and carrot soup for diarrhea and stomach problems have surely also been given to many of us as children.

Today's demands on food

Food should not only satisfy hunger and taste good. Today, it should meet additional requirements: depending on the situation in life, deliver energy, increase performance, enable better concentration or help you relax. Intensive research is currently being carried out worldwide to investigate the effects of certain foods on our health. The health-promoting effects of many foods have already been proven by studies. However, the research results must be viewed with caution, since they often cannot be applied directly to daily human consumption. The laboratory conditions under which testing was carried out are usually very different from the conditions in everyday life:

For many experiments, large amounts of certain nutrients are often used, which can never be achieved with a normal diet.

Certain substances are also mostly considered in isolation from one another, as a rule they are taken up in combination with other nutritional components.

Many studies are carried out in cell culture or with laboratory animals. The impact on humans is still questionable.

In order to be able to make specific statements about the influence of certain substances on the development and cure of diseases, further studies have to be carried out. Accordingly, even in the EU area, food cannot be advertised with health-related promises even without hard-and-fast evidence.

Research areas

Today, among other things, intensive research is carried out in the following areas:

Positive effects of eating on cancer patients

During and after cancer therapy, a properly selected diet should improve the success of the therapy and the quality of life of the patient [1]. Foods containing omega-3 fatty acids and fruits and vegetables with a high level of anti-oxidants are also confirmed to play an important role in cancer prevention [2].

Fast

Different forms of fasting are generally said to be good for health and have a positive effect on the digestive system. Fasting is also said to counteract disease processes from diabetes to Alzheimer's [3].

Functional food and superfood

Food with a specific health requirement is also very trendy. The industry brings huge amounts of functional food (food that has been enriched with certain substances). Accordingly, a lot of research and development is done in this area. The mode of action of various superfoods (foods that have a very high health benefit by nature) is also being intensively investigated.

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