Food for life. Literally.

Is it science or just common sense that your body works better with the right balance of nutrients. 'Real' food not only helps the average person feel better, but it can heal. If it can heal, it can make you live longer. It's only difficult to understand if you close your mind really tight.

When patients go to see Dr. Daphne Miller, they are more likely to leave with a recipe for a wholesome meal than a drug prescription.

In 2000, Ronnie Sampson, 52, was diagnosed with neurosarcoidosis, a disease that tricks the immune system into attacking certain parts of the body.

Sampson’s doctor put him on prednisone, a corticosteroid that helps to suppress the immune system.

But while the drug helped eliminate symptoms of his disease, the self-employed graphic artist started having headaches, gained weight, developed insomnia and even became diabetic.

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