From the Heart-Healthy Diet issue of UHN Heart-Healthy Diet

2. Food Chemistry and Cardiovascular Disease

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By UHN • January 26, 2018

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In the 4th century BCE, Greek physician Hippocrates transformed medicine with his holistic understanding of health and disease. Whereas previous generations of healers attributed illness to demons and cures to magic, Hippocrates based treatments on experimentation and rational evaluation of evidence, however limited on both counts. He saw the human body not as an assemblage […]

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