Food Therapy and Health Care：provides the primary prevention strategy for people

Qing-Hua Yao, Xiong-Zhi Wu

1Department of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, Hangzhou, China;Yaoqh@zjcc.org.cn; 2Tianjin Medical University,Tianjin,China.wuxiongzhi@163.com.

It has shown that perhaps 80% of all human illnesses are related to diet and 40%of cancer is related to the diet.A balanced diet can support a lifetime of good health and can help protect against diseases. Good food can be both pleasure and medicine - diet has a crucial role to play in disease prevention and longer and healthier living.

Traditional medicine attaches great importance to the role of food in human health. It refers to the beneficial ingredients in food as “water valley”, where “water valley”refers to food and water ingested by the human body,while“fine”refers to the pure and delicate part of food.The water valley is the essence of the body's intake of food and water,transported through the spleen and stomach, converted into the subtle substances that the human body can use.As early as the Tang Dynasty, "Shi Liao Ben Cao" as the earliest extant monotherapy in the world has been published,which contains 241 kinds of medicinal and edible plants. The principles of traditional nutrition are comprehensive,dialectical, meditation, proper compatibility, dietary contraindications,and diet hygiene.

Food Therapy and Health Care focuses exclusively on the medical functions and biomedical effects of food based on the guidance of traditional medical theory. it is a quarterly, peer-reviewed open access journal targeting at promoting health, preventing and treating disease, and accelerate healing. The journal provides a unique venue for physicists, traditional medicine researchers, nutritionists and other food scientists to publish work at the interface of the medical functions and biomedical effects of food. We welcome manuscripts describing: Functional foods(such as fungi and their extracts, ginseng, etc.), Medicine food homology, Vitamins, minerals, botanicals and other dietary supplements, Intestinal micro-ecology, probiotics,prebiotics, Metabolic diseases (diabetes, fatty liver,hyperlipidemia), Obesity, Disease diet (diabetes diet, liver disease diet,tumor diet,etc.),Nutrition(nutrition,cachexia,overnutrition, enteral nutrition, parenteral nutrition),Vegetarian, apastia, eating disorders, Digestive malabsorption, Nutritional interventions in preventing disease, Nutritional interventions for different constitutional types, Diseases of food taboos, Safety/Toxicology of functional foods and dietary supplements, Qigong,meditation, exercise and other health care and anti-aging methods.

We sincerely look forward to a long and successful partnership with you, and our authors and readers warmly welcome the active participation of domestic and international experts with background of traditional medicine in the production of our journal. We are eager to hear your suggestions and feedback. Please feel free to write to us at foodhealth@tmrjournals.com or https://www.tmrjournals.com/fthc about anything, at any time.