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Eat your way to better health with this New York Times bestseller on food’s ability to help the body heal itself from cancer, dementia, and dozens of other avoidable diseases.
Forget everything you think you know about your body and food, and discover the new science of how the body heals itself. Learn how to identify the strategies and dosages for using food to transform your resilience and health in Eat to Beat Disease.
We have radically underestimated our body’s power to transform and restore our health. Pioneering physician scientist, Dr. William Li, empowers readers by showing them the evidence behind over 200 health-boosting foods that can starve cancer, reduce your risk of dementia, and beat dozens of avoidable diseases. Eat to Beat Disease isn’t about what foods to avoid, but rather is a life-changing guide to the hundreds of healing foods to add to your meals that support the body’s defense systems, including: PlumsCinnamonJasmine teaRed wine and beerBlack BeansSan Marzano tomatoesOlive oilPacific oystersCheeses like Jarlsberg, Camembert and cheddarSourdough bread
The book’s plan shows you how to integrate the foods you already love into any diet or health plan to activate your body’s health defense systems-Angiogenesis, Regeneration, Microbiome, DNA Protection, and Immunity-to fight cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative autoimmune diseases, and other debilitating conditions.
Both informative and practical, Eat to Beat Disease explains the science of healing and prevention, the strategies for using food to actively transform health, and points the science of wellbeing and disease prevention in an exhilarating new direction.
From the Publisher
From Eat to Beat Disease
Publisher : Balance
Publication date : March 19, 2019
Edition : First Edition
Language : English
Print length : 496 pages
ISBN-10 : 1538714620
ISBN-13 : 978-1538714621
Item Weight : 1.54 pounds
Reading age : 5 years and up
Dimensions : 6.55 x 1.85 x 9.4 inches
Customers say
Customers find the book informative, packed with detailed food information, and easy to read. They appreciate its nutritional guidance, particularly its approach to using food as medicine and improving health through diet and lifestyle changes. The value for money receives mixed reviews, with some finding it priceless while others consider it a waste of money.
Hoppe Handyman Service –
Great Way to Eat
Very organized and thorough definition of the best foods for good health. Great description of beneficial effects. Dr. li provides great detailed information.
Julia –
A very flexible approach to dieting
This is a GREAT diet book. It’s a very flexible diet approach, not restrictive at all. Dr. Li explains many nutritional concepts and how they work in our body in very easy to understand manner. The book explains clearly how metabolism works, why what we eat can contribute both to health and disease, how to optimize our immune system, ways to restore our health. He explains the biochemistry of food, their interaction and effects on our internal organs at the cellular level that is easy for lay people to understand.The book focuses on preventive measures that do not require sacrificing our food preferences. It does emphasize to eat the food we like in moderation. It approaches FOOD AS MEDICINE, and how food can promote angiogenesis which can have both positive and negative effects on our body, how regeneration via stem cells work in our body, how the microbiome in out gut defend for our health, how to protect our fragile DNA, how our immune system works, and ways we can do within our control to protect ourselves from cancer. I never understand how ‘mitochondria’ works until I read his books.It has list of foods that apply to the five concepts that impact our defense system and how food can be used to fight fat and protect from cancer: Angiogenesis, Regeneration, Microbiome, DNA protection, and Immunity. It shows readers how to plan their diet, and it has recipe ideas. Dr. Li introduces the “MediterAsian diet,” and why Standard American Diet promotes diseases.I highly recommend reading both of his books: Eat To Beat Disease and Eat To Beat Your Diet.Imagine when majority of us can use food as medicine, choose food wisely, eat in moderation, we will have prevented many preventable diseases that is costing our health system mega-billions, and jacking up our health insurance irredeemably, outrageously high! Dr. Li has made it easier to eat healthy and prevent illnesses. It’s not easy to change dietary habit, but Dr. Li’s diet approach is very flexible. And, we can certainly teach children how to eat healthy and prevent diseases that are within our control, and nurture healthier future generations.
L. Hernandez Velez –
Significant work on the link between food and health
Great information, suggestions on how to use food as medicine. Easy read with hands on information. Thank you, Dr. Li.
Loved this item. Fit great, washed good and color was nice. –
Good
Book is well written. Good read, very informative.
Chopster –
Health is your wealth!
This book is a must read. Written to easily implement and understand. Now I know the foods to eat to improve my health and live a long life.
Robert E Gundling –
Valuable information to promote health care
I found the information in the book interesting and a valuable contribution to my commitment to lifelong learning. The focus on health care rather than disease care had a positive impact on me. A more step by step procedure to implement the information in the book would be helpful to me.
Homewithtrinity –
I am in love with this book!
The book breaks down how to improve your heath by adjusting your eating habits. There are lists of foods that help strengthen different systems thus help you body fight diseases. If that isn’t enough, there are several recipes to help get you started.
SUZQ –
Yellowed pages
I’m sure the content of this book is wonderful. However the quality was lacking. Not sure how this had been stored, but the pages were very aged and yellow looking and the back jacket was ripped. This was supposedly purchased new. It was returned, as it was supposed to be a gift.
Juan GMP –
A pragmatical book with a very intetesting beginning to undetstand our body’s defense systems and concluding with a practical framework to organize your week’s groceries shopping. Thank you Dr. Li for putting all together”!
Barb –
LOVE this book. Great information to live by, and interesting research provided.Making me a healthier person!! Grateful
Pablo O –
Voy a la mitad del libro pero ya quiero comprar mas para regalar.
Maibiene –
William Li betrachtet Lebensmittel als Medizin und handelt auf Grundlage von wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen hinsichtlich der Wirkstoffe von Nahrungsmittel für bestimmte Krankheiten. Für mich ist das Buch eines der komplextesten Bücher, welcher hinsichtlich des Aspekts “wir essen uns gesund und jung” und ich freue mich, dass es nun endlich auch in Deutsch erschienen ist, weil ich am liebsten vielen Menschen schenken würde. Nachdem William Li die gesamten wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen erklärt hat, gibt er noch Tips, wie man sein Essverhalten so anpassen kannst, um bereits einen minimalen Gewinn für die Gesundheit zu erzielen. Ich würde die theoretischen Ansätze am ehesten mit denen von Prof. Dr. med. Andreas Michalsen vergleichen.
Patrick Cheong –
This Book Improves my Health Knowledge