Title : Food, Nutrition, and Diet as breakthroughs from botanicals unveiling the power of traditional medicine
Abstract:
Interestingly, the title and theme of this ICTM is a match to my professional field which is very dear to my heart and has given me a lot of breakthroughs. First is the area of food, nutrition, and diet. Food and nutrition are embedded in people’s/population age, sex, race and/or other social determinants of health. Notwithstanding their personal, professional, political and religious affiliations, as well as the whole spectrum of what we call “culture”. It is so innate that it is part of our very nature as a person — a human being with a lot of needs, wants, desires and intellectual discretions. This presentation has been developed from my previous life experiences, educational journey, professional and personal encounters with food, nutrition, and diet, and within traditional medicine and its allied fields including Ethnomedicine and Natural Therapies. Botanicals connote/refer to plants, herbs and/or combinations of products. Western and Eastern Medicine (which we know as Traditional Medicine) will be explored by this author/presenter citing botanicals and its many breakthroughs confirming the power of Traditional Medicine as it has existed for a thousand years. Participants will be able to enumerate foods that could also be considered as botanicals. Attendees will be able to identify the differences between plant sources, grains, and other foods with common botanicals. As this presentation progresses, participants are reminded that the scope of this topic pertains to human nutrition and/or Western Medicine.
