Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

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This is often attributed to Hippocrates but does not appear in the Hippocratic corpus. See Diana Cardenas, "Let not thy food be confused with thy medicine: The Hippocratic misquotation", e-SPEN: The European e-Journal of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism XXX:6 (October 2013). Cardenas here in turn cites Jaques Jouanna.

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As Cardenas self quotes from the Hippocratic corpus (On Food, s:el:Περί_τροφής#pXIX.), the source of the misquotation might be: “in food medicine for the best, in food medicine for the bad, bad and good related to something” («ἐν τροφῇ φαρμακείη ἄριστον, ἐν τροφῇ φαρμακείη φλαῦρον, φλαῦρον καὶ ἄριστον πρός τι»).

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