Patch believes that making patients laugh makes them forget for a moment of pain, suffering and problems they may have.
The Patch Adams approach challenged some premises of medicine, proposing a completely different praxis to the traditional one and generating new paradigms to heal people: love, laughter and closeness between doctors and patients.
Too few vitamins etc=can lead to digestion problems etc Consuming to much trans fat= linked to type 2 diabetes etc Consuming to much added sugar=increases cholesterol etc Consuming too much sodium= increases blood pressure etc