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Foods and treatment

Watch Janeane talk about the ways food has been used historically across cultures in treating disease and curing illness.

Watch Janeane talk about the ways food has been used historically across cultures in treating disease and curing illness, and how recent evidence about some foods has helped inform public health recommendations.

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Go to Downloads for more examples of using foods as medicine that you may find useful.

Also consider reading The Effect of a Standardized Ginger Extract on Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea-Related Quality of Life in Patients Undergoing Moderately or Highly Emetogenic Chemotherapy: A Double Blind, Randomized, Placebo Controlled Trial and Ginger—Mechanism of action in chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting: A review to find out more about research in this area.

These papers and articles are included to help demonstrate some of the research in this area, but we do not expect you to purchase a subscription to read the full paper. Hopefully, just reading the summary provided in the free abstract will be sufficient for those that are wanting to know more about this study.

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