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and so diet is very important to this therapeutics.
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The tools available to the physician then,
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are first of all diet.
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In some sense the Hippocratic
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physicians thought we are what we eat,
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and all foodstuffs had qualities--hot, cold, moist, dry--
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to balance an opposite defect or excess in the human body.
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Exercise was also important.
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A change of environment; in modern terms,
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going to a spa or a sanatorium.
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Moderation in the emotions, moderation in sex.
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And medication was important,