Is solving health problems with diets and nutrition considered 'alternative...

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...medicine'? The study of nutrition, diet, and its correlation to health.
The effect that food has on health problems and the healing properties of certain diets. And using diet to solve health issues.

Is this considered alternative medicine/natural medicine, or conventional medicine. I ask because I don't see either natural medicine nor conventional medicine address this or use this kind of approach. Natural medicine seem to use herbs for everything and conventional just uses drugs for everything. What about using diet as a medicinal treatment for diseases?
 
Although I dislike the term, certain maladies require a "holistic" approach. For example, ailments such as sleep apnea, type II diabetes, high cholesterol and hypertension can often be improved with weight reduction, low fat diets, low salt diets, etc. For some people this might be enough, others will need medication. Human nature being what it is, it is often easier to take a pill or undergo surgery for a certain condition rather than use diet and exercise.

At least there is a good deal of science behind allopathic medicine. Alternative medicine is often based on opinion and anecdotal reports. This is junk science.

A more cynical colleague once said, "It's easier to take thirty seconds to write a prescription than to spend thirty minutes telling the patient why he doesn't need it." I hope that attitude doesn't pervade the entire medical community.
 
Its quackery, any knowledgable person knows that food does not affect your health. The only thing that can cure diseases is drugs and lots of them.
 
Its quackery, any knowledgable person knows that food does not affect your health. The only thing that can cure diseases is drugs and lots of them.
 
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