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Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself by [William W Li]

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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:

Plums
Cinnamon
Jasmine tea
Red wine and beer
Black Beans
San Marzano tomatoes
Olive oil
Pacific oysters
Cheeses like Jarlsberg, Camembert and cheddar
Sourdough 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.

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The five defense systems are angiogenesis, regeneration, microbiome, DNA protection, and immunity.
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More than one hundred foods can enhance your body’s ability to starve cancer and keep those tumors small and harmless, among them soy, tomatoes, black raspberries, pomegranate, and even some surprising ones, like licorice, beer, and cheese.
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If you cook a tomato in olive oil, the amount of lycopene absorbed by your blood goes up threefold.
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We can boost our microbiome by eating foods like kimchi, sauerkraut, cheddar cheese, and sourdough bread.
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"A ground breaking physician shares how we can use food to hack our natural defense systems and hardwire ourselves for health."―-Mehmet Oz, MD, Host, The Dr. Oz Show

"Dr. William Li is a healthcare pioneer... Dr. Li helps our readers thrive by unpacking how the body's own systems respond to what we eat. His book will give practical tips for healthier living and empower readers with ways they can help their bodies fight disease."―Arianna Huffington, Founder and CEO, Thrive Global

"Finally! A book that tells us the truth about what we can eat to be healthy, based on real science, from a true expert. Eat to Beat Disease will completely change the way you think about your body and the choices you make when you grocery shop, cook for your family, or dine out. Read this book from cover to cover if you want to be on top of your game for health, beauty, and fitness, from the inside out. When it comes to food and health, I'm so happy to have Dr. Li in my camp!"―-Cindy Crawford

"An ode to one of life's greatest pleasures and a convincing case for a healthy appetite. This book will entertain, educate, devour and then empower you. Dr. William Li teaches us that we have radically underestimated our own power to transform and restore our health. This is a fascinating story of the power of food, a reflection on what we mean by health, and practical tool with the 5x5x5 framework to make sure we are around to enjoy life's pleasures for as long as possible."―-Bono

"'We are what we eat' goes the old cliché, but it would be more accurate to say that 'we are what we extract from our food.' What if food is more than energy and more than nutrition but a form of medicine? In his ground-breaking book Eat to Beat Disease, Dr. William Li brings the discipline of clinical medical research to bear on a new analysis of the relationship between food and health. Piecing together the puzzle of the how the food we consume impacts how the human body functions and how it protects itself from disease, Dr. Li puts forward a new paradigm to explain this relationship: 'Food as Medicine.' Eat to Beat Disease heralds a revolution in thinking about how the food we eat dictates our health."―-The Edge, U2, Director, The Angiogenesis Foundation

"In a new ground-breaking study--Eat to Beat Disease--Dr. William W. Li provides the knowledge and tools to make better decisions what to eat every day. This easy-to-read book is not a diet book but help you better understand what you eat."―--The Washington Book Review

"Unlike so many books that turn people away from the foods they enjoy, Eat to Beat Disease shows us how the foods we love actually support our wellbeing and vitality. I recommend that every health seeker read this new classic, and tell their friends and family all about it."―-Mark Hyman, MD, Director, Cleveland Clinic Center

"As the former Secretary of Agriculture, one of my tasks was to promote good health and nutrition by giving the public modern, scientifically based information, on the foods they eat. Dr. Li's transformational book is one of the best narratives I have read on the scientific relationship between healthy food, nutrition, and the fight against disease. I recommend it highly."―-Dan Glickman, Former US Secretary of Agriculture, Vice President, Aspen Institute, Former Chairman, Motion Picture Association of America

"Molecular Medicine has finally been joined by Molecular Nutrition! For decades, we captured a primitive understanding 'healthy foods' and applied maxims like 'an apple a day keeps the doctor away.' In this book, Dr. Li not only tells us why an apple has health benefits but even more importantly tells us which variety of apple is best!"―-Andrew C. Von Eschenbach, MD, President, Samaritan Health Initiatives, Former Director of the National Cancer Institute, Former Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration

"The time has come for 'health' to be properly defined and for us to understand clearly how food impacts health. Eat to Beat Disease delivers on this vision in a big way - and with real science to back it up. Dr. Li's highly enjoyable and informative book spreads the word that achieving great health is within reach for all of us, using the very foods that we love. Eat to Beat Disease will excite, amaze, and inspire us all to eat healthy and defeat disease. And remember - you are in control of your own destiny."―-Louis J. Ignarro, 1998 Nobel Laureate in Medicine

"Among the many diet and health books of recent years, this book should top the list. Dr. William Li, an experienced internal medicine physician, also has an outstanding professional reputation in medical research. He knows science and how to present it to the public. His facts can only lead to a more fulfilling way to think about health for all of us."

―-T Colin Campbell, PhD, Cornell University, Author, The China Study and Whole

"Eat to Beat Disease is a trailblazing book. Author, world-renowned physician and medical scientist Dr. William Li explains how we have the power to help control our own health destiny by making decisions that help the body heal itself. Dr. Li describes how more than 200 foods amplify our body's defenses which can result in beneficial health outcomes. Eat to Beat Disease is a must read - I strongly endorse it."―-Dean Ornish, MD --This text refers to the audioCD edition.

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William W. Li, MD, is an internationally renowned Harvard-trained medical doctor, researcher, and president and a founder of the Angiogenesis Foundation. His groundbreaking work has impacted more than seventy diseases including cancer, diabetes, blindness, heart disease, and obesity. His TED Talk, "Can We Eat to Starve Cancer?" has garnered more than eleven million views, and he has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, Martha Stewart Live, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, Voice of America, and has presented at the Vatican's Unite to Cure conference. --This text refers to the audioCD edition.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Balance; 1st edition (March 19, 2019)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 19, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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William W. Li, MD, is a world-renowned physician, scientist, speaker, and author of EAT TO BEAT DISEASE – The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself.

He is best known for leading the Angiogenesis Foundation. His groundbreaking work has impacted more than 70 diseases including cancer, diabetes, blindness, heart disease, and obesity. His TED Talk, “Can We Eat to Starve Cancer?” has garnered more than 11 million views, and he has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, Martha Stewart Live, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, Voice of America, and has presented at the Vatican’s Unite to Cure conference. An author of over 100 scientific publications in leading journals such as Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and more, Dr. Li has served on the faculties of Harvard, Tufts, and Dartmouth Medical School.

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Kaatje

Interesting perspective on health and nutrition

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 28, 2023

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Li is a cancer researcher and it shows. He is most convincing and interesting when discussing cancer research, prevention and treatment. Other diseases and approaches get treated, but he is less able there. Most glaringly: when it comes to gut microbiome health, he ignores (or is unaware of) the main conclusion of the American Gut Project (that we should eat at least 30 plants a week for a healthy gut microbiome).

I would not recommend this book if you want a quick and dirty 'what should I eat to become more healthy'. There are other books that give a more practical and precise path to health. However, if you are up to studying various books and combining the best in each, this book should be on your list for it's clear explanations on fighting and preventing cancer.

This edition does contain some nice recipes, but it's not a cookbook. Nor does it provide complete meal plans.

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Detailed Nutrition Connections

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 16, 2023

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Excellent book detailing how foods support our body’s health. The scientific names can make your head spin, but understanding key foods and what they effect is very clear. Drastic diet changes are not necessary. The list of supportive foods makes it easy to develop healthy choices. Food lists, quantities required, and sample menu plans are very helpful. I finished the book with a clearer understanding how our body’s normal support and defense mechanisms function and what I can do to support those mechanisms.

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Life saving information

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 15, 2023

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If you are looking for a book that will guide you in taking control over your health, this is the book. Dr. Li explains how our bodies thrive and what you can do to improve your health. He does it in layman terms so it is so easy to apply. Can't wait until his next book is released, I will definitely be buying it.

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Anne McHugh

Excellent content, lousy binding

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 25, 2023

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I bought the paperback edition, and after a few turns of pages, the pages began to loosen. Very disappointing. But the content is highly informative and helpful, a great resource for healthy living.

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Molecular Quantum Mechanics

Incredibly good

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 31, 2022

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It helps to have someone this knowledgeable and credentialed teaching on the medicinal benefits of food in a world with a lot of new age misinformation.

I have learned many helpful things from this book that I apply to my diet and supplement regimen every day, like for example the wonderful probiotic L. reuteri I make fresh yogurt with (which boosts the CFU dramatically).

I love the fact that this book is intended for actual daily effects on your health, a practice, rather than just something interesting to read.

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Lots of great advice for a healthier way of eating

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 1, 2023

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I found "Eat to Beat Disease" an enjoyable and deeply informative read. Being somebody who is very much interested in maintaining my health for as long as I can through diet and exercise - as well as somebody who follows and respects real science - I found myself taking notes during my reading to make sure this knowledge stays with me when I go to the food store. I recommend this book to anybody who takes nutrition seriously.

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Mercy's Treasures

Wow what a powerful book to have in your hands

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 11, 2022

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I really enjoy reading this book. It is powerful information how beautiful and wonderfully God has made us. Our bodies is design for one purpose is to healed and be healed throughout life. I love how science has discovered how complex the human bodies are made and the same token how simple it is to live in divine health by eating whole natural foods. I appreciate the eye opening that Dr. William Li brings to this book, its is a light shining so we can appreciate living a great life by changing the way we eat, the way we see food as a whole and what we can do everyday to improve quality of life. Thank you Dr. Li for your knowledge and your time you invested in us by making this book possible for us so we can learn what our bodies really need. I highly recommend investing in this book. To your divine health. God bless you all.

31 people found this helpful

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Bryan Reagan

Great Resource of Therapeutic Use of Food

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 8, 2023

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This is not a diet book. It summarizes a large amount of research on how individual nutrients and specific foods and beverages influence our medical condition and health. It does make some recommendations and includes some recipes as examples of how to integrate helpful foods into your daily meals and eating opportunities.

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sinead

Detailed and interesting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 2, 2020

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Super detailed but very interesting. You’ll need to WANT to read this book. I had to take notes. It’s the sort of book that will come on very handy should you fall ill. A normal healthy diet is the preventative measure but it’s worth reading to see where your diet sits presently. A lot of us probably think our diets are ok but could be better. I found I was already eating a good range from the recommended groups but it’s why illness hits that this info will really help. Treating health problems with a good nutrition program will definitely help healing and go hand in hand with other treatments. It’s worth buying.

25 people found this helpful

JD HUGHES

Kind of OK...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 17, 2020

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This book could have been printed on three or four pages. Interesting background, but not for most of the book, unless you really need to know. Many people will only be concerned with the list of recommended foods.

23 people found this helpful

WXMonitor

Just another anti red meat book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 3, 2021

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Just more of the same Eat Lancet and WHO anti meat agenda! Japanese live long because they eat nothing but soy! People around the Med live long because they just drink olive oil! If you dare get one second of sun on your skin you will shrivel up into a cancer ball!
No mention of vitamin D3 in a whole section about immunity!!
Total waste of money!

8 people found this helpful

Mimi

This should be taught in schools

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 21, 2019

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This book should be in every school part of the national curriculum to Eat to beat disease

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Di R

A great book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 24, 2019

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Immunity is a complex process and William Li explains clearly how this works. I found his book most interesting and helpful, providing detailed information about dietary approaches and evidence for what works to ensure good health. This is an excellent book, and I wholeheartedly recommend it.

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