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Doctor Rambam | Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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I realized he wrote quite a few books on medicine. He wrote about asthma, he wrote about hepatitis, he wrote about diet. Now, granted, a lot of what he says in the medical area might not be that relevant today, but surprisingly a lot is. Now, the Rambam was one of the first who talked about the importance of diets and the importance of exercise and the importance of prevention of health problems rather than dealing with it afterwards like Benjamin Franklin said, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." The Rambam was one of the first to emphasize that.