The Wisdom of Both Cultures

When I was diagnosed with cancer and made the momentous decision to use food as my medicine, I was not as out of my element as I would have thought. Sure, the terms were different. My Nonna and Zie never used words like yin and yang and we never talked about the energy of food in Asian terms, but the thinking was the same: Mother Nature gave us many of the tools we needed to stay well and healthy, so let’s turn to her before we turned to anything else. We valued medicine and science, but we also knew that it had its place and that it was often over-used in our modern world.