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Environmental Therapies- Clinical Ecology
The Belief that our environment can affect our health is not new. Hippocrates, the ancient Greek father of modern medicine (today’s physicians still respect the Hippocratic Oath even if they no longer take it), recorded the beneficial and harmful effects of certain foods in the 5th century B.C.
Today our bodies face a daily assault undreamed of by the ancient Greeks: our crops are sprayed with pesticides, our food is packed with preservatives, and the air we breathe is often full of gasoline fumes and pollution.
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