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The second factor that thwarted American\u2019s potential for utopia was that Pasteur\u2019s germ theory of diseases unfortunately influenced our medical community to drop the pursuit of diseases prevention. Beginning in the 19th Century, chemicals with drugs actions were isolated from plants, and increasingly drugs were made by chemical synthesis. Our medical community became convinced that the newly discovered drugs were the most advantageous modality with which to practice medicine (i.e., combat germs and other disease-causing agents). Nutrition as \u201cstandard of care\u201d (accepted modes of medical care), which had been accepted doctrine from the time of Greek physician Hippocrates (the \u201cfather of medicine,\u201d for 460 – 377 B.C.), was unilaterally rejected by modern medicine, which has virtually ignored the impact of nutrition on the building up or breaking down of the body and shifted its focus to treating disease after it occurs \u2013 primarily with drugs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The medical community\u2019s dismissal of nutrition as standard of care in favor of a drug approach was the first step in our becoming a nation of factory-food eaters because it encouraged people to abdicate responsibility for their own health and place utter trust in the medical community. As we became a nation of drug takers following the advice of the medical community \u2013 which had shunned nutrition \u2013 the old wisdoms of food and nutrition were lost. Today few people remember their grandmothers advising them what to eat or drink to prevent or correct illness. That’s because most grandmothers did not learn the simple truths about nutrition from their<\/em> grandmothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n