Medical treatment or therapy based on proper nutrition and dietary practices; healing through the careful provision of appropriate foods.
Compound word from 'alimento' (Spanish/Italian for nourishment) or Latin 'alimentum' combined with Greek 'therapeia' (treatment, healing). This emerged as a medical term in the 19th-20th centuries.
The ancient principle 'let food be thy medicine' finally got a scientific name: alimentotherapy—modern medicine is increasingly discovering that many conditions can be treated more effectively through targeted nutrition than through drugs.
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