Advances in both technology and science as an outcome are considered to have benefited the rapidly expanding sector of medicine to an extent no less than the sector of space exploration. Even as rocket science has dominated the field of space exploration, the multi-discipline teams working in the field have contributed through high order research to ensure the health of the astronauts, before, during and after the space journey, first by orbiting the earth, next reaching the Moon and now planning manned flight to Mars. However, the role of diet in safeguarding their wellness seems to have not figured in the reports on space flights, successful or otherwise. More importantly, the diets of the brave hearts, both men and women, was required to keep them 100 percent physically fit and in high spirits to maximise their alertness and efficiency.
The health-diet intimate connect must have received undiluted attention of our ancestors, particularly in the periods of several centuries vintage, when hospitals were not there and all remedies had to be sought by home-level production of palliatives drawing totally from the plant world.
