"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food."
— Hippocrates

January 1, 1970

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As Cardenas self quotes from the Hippocratic corpus (On Food, s:el:Περί_τροφής#pXIX.), the source of the misquotation might be: “in food medicine for the best, in food medicine for the bad, bad and good related to something” («ἐν τροφῇ φαρμακείη ἄριστον, ἐν τροφῇ φαρμακείη φλαῦρον, φλαῦρον καὶ ἄριστον πρός τι»).