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Chronologically wise around 450-350 BC in the Hellenic island of KOS.

Actually the ancient Greek text in much more explicit & Lakonic-language stupilates this:

"Your nutrition is your pharmaco/medicine"

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This is misquotation. Hippocrates didn't write this phrase. See Cardenas D, e-SPEN JOURANL, 2013. IN PRESS. www.e-spenjournal . org/ (Remove Spaces)

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Yes.

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