Health-promoting properties of fruit and vegetables - Original PDF
نویسندگان: Leon Alexander Terry
خلاصه: Fruit and vegetables have been an important
constituent of the human diet from time
immemorial. Indeed, some 3500 years ago,
when the children of Israel were wandering
in the desert from Egypt to Canaan, they were
reported to complain to Moses, 'And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of
Egypt... it is no place of seed or of fig or of
vine or of pomegranate...' (Numbers 20:5)
and 'We remember the fish, which we did eat
in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the
garlick' (Numbers 11:5). Hippocrates (c.460-
370 Bc) later wrote 'Let food be thy medicine
and medicine be thy food'