#do you think maybe Apollo saw one of his favorite mortals maintain a really trash diet

[my-name-is-apollo]

I find it kinda amusing how Apollo is generally accepted to be the master of all healing arts and yet some authors ascribe the discovery of specific fields of medicine/health to him. Like yes this god knew all the healing stuff but he really, really liked this one specifically.

Hyginus has recorded a tradition where Apollo was the first to discover eye treatment. Why the eye specifically? What was the reason??

Another example is, him basically founding what seems to be nutritional science:

"(Quantity) is as important as quality, for sometimes a slight change in quantity produces a great change in quality, as with wine. First making men more cheerful, later it undermines morals and sanity. This difference is generally ignored in things in which the result is not so pronounced, although everything eaten is the cause of a certain peculiar disposition. Hence it requires great wisdom to know and perceive which quality and quantity of food to eat. This science, first unfolded by Apollo and Phaon, was later developed by Asclepius and his followers."

– Iamblichus, The Life Of Pythagoras (trans. Kenneth Guthrie)

He even teamed up with a mortal for this (Phaon was totally Apollo's test subject trust me I was there) it's more surprising because gods don't even need to eat (I think) so really, what made him passionate about this specifically.