The Role of Foods and Dietary Supplements in Supporting Health and Reducing Consumption and Reliance on Medications

Dear Colleagues,

The world population is receiving a daily benefit from different types of medicine, which prolong life and cure symptoms such as pain, inflammation, sleep disturbances, and anxiety, to mention just a few. But medicine has a cost for the individual using it. And medicine, in many cases, also has a cost for society. Besides the fact that medicine is expensive, medicine presents us with another burden: medicine very often has side effects, and the cost of these side effects can sometimes be overwhelming. For example, NSAID can cause gastrointestinal bleeding, paracetamol can cause liver injury and even death, tramadol can cause addiction, and benzodiazepine can result in drowsiness.

So could a daily salad containing different herbs and vegetables, or possibly a dietary supplement, reduce our consumption of and reliance on medicine? If so, this would be a great advantage to the individuals using different types of medicine and also to society.

For this Special Issue, we welcome the submission of studies on any of the abovementioned aspects to expand our knowledge of how raw foods, processed foods, functional foods, food supplements, plant by-products, and plant extractions can reduce the consumption of the medicine we normally use for our different ailments.

Dr. Kaj Winther
Guest Editor

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