Speaking
of food for lovers, which we weren't but we will, I've read recently that in
Australia, with a population of around 24 million, Australians spend something
like $3 billion on medication.
Although the medical profession harks back to
Hippocrates as the father of medicine, there's a vast difference between his
idea of how patients should be treated, and the modern practice. And there
certainly weren't pharmaceutical companies making profits of $85 billion in the
process.
Without the help of pharmacies, Hippocrates managed to
live to be ninety years old. And when he talked about men continuing to be
'manly' into their old age, he was talking about food, and not viagra.
People seem to have forgotten that they are what they
eat, and not what they get from the chemist shop.
Would you believe that Italy is considered a country
of beautiful and healthy people because they still rely largely on natural
foods - often growing in their backyards - as opposed to those countries where
people look for their nutrition on the shelves of the supermarkets.
And so far their use of pharmacies is low on their
list of needs.
Casanova, touted as the great Italian lover, liked his
food. And not just oysters. Like all Italians he loved his pasta and what went
with it. And he's not the only one. Sophia Loren - the Italian beauty suggests that
all she is, she owes to pasta.
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