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Food over Medicine: By Pamela A.Popper and Glen Merzer

In Food over Medicine the author’s main points are how almost half of Americans now take at least one pill a day to treat diseases such as being obesity and diabetes. But these diseases can be treated just by eating right and exercising. When you go into a doctor’s office now, the doctor will write you a prescription for your disease such as high blood pressure, instead of simply telling you to cut back on fatty foods and adding in some exercises throughout your day. These medications can have more side effects and are only masking the diseases instead of treating it. We are being overmedicated, when the answer to lowering the disease isn’t for us to take more …show more content…

She is an expert on nutrition, health and medicine. She’s also an executive Director of the Wellness Forum and she also serves on the Physician’s steering committee in Washington D.C. She was also involved with the Sacreamento Food Bank Project which showed how to reverse diseases and get rid of medications with the proper diet. She’s been on many documentaries such as Processed People and Making a Killing and appeared in a film called “Forks over Knives” which came out in 2011. She was also a coauthor in the New York Times. The author Glen Merzer is from California. He is also a vegetarian for almost 40 years and Pamela and Glen together wrote the book Food over medicine to educate those with health diseases taking medication. There is a more natural way to heal your body the right way without taking 4-5 pills a day. The best medication is proper eating and exercising daily. Food over Medicine is a very interesting book. Many of us don’t realize it but when we are going to the doctor’s office the doctor is simply just writing us a prescription to mask our problem. For example: If you have high blood pressure the doctor will give you medication to lower your blood pressure instead of telling you why it’s so high and what you should do naturally to lower your blood pressure such as eating a proper diet and exercising 3-5 times a week. This book does a great job at explaining

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