“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”

—  Hippocrates

This is often attributed to Hippocrates but does not appear in the Hippocratic corpus. See Diana Cardenas https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258099432_Let_not_thy_food_be_confused_with_thy_medicine_The_Hippocratic_misquotation, "Let not thy food be confused with thy medicine: The Hippocratic misquotation", e-SPEN: The European e-Journal of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism XXX:6 (October 2013).
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