This book is a wonderful minestrone — a science-led mash up of fascinating facts with smart guidance on where food and fat should be going in the future (who thought fat could be so interesting ? Most of these tumors don’t invade organs and the body’s natural angiogenesis disrupters starve them of blood. If you’re ready to say “adios” to the diet roller coaster and create a sustainable, practical plan that works, consider this book your blueprint for success.

This book was mostly just a list of foods that have been shown to keep you healthy - things we already know, like dark chocolate, olive oil, fish, etc. By eating foods that you already enjoy, like tomatoes, blueberries, sourdough bread, and dark chocolate your body activates its five health defense systems to fight cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative autoimmune diseases, and other debilitating conditions. We always hear about those one-off studies finding things like "compounds in blueberries promote brain health" or "an antioxidant in green tea may prevent breast cancer. Actually, there is no record of the famous ancient Greek physician ever having said this, although it is clear from the writings of the Hippocratic authors that Greeks did believe that disease and food were linked.

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, and autoimmune diseases, and other debilitating conditions. Unfortunately the author goes over numerous foods “good” for you, good for ridding the body of disease, especially cancer, indiscriminately.

The new model for metabolic health is to Eat To Beat Your Diet by enjoying an abundance of delicious, metabolism-supporting foods. Nutrients act within the complexity of the human system and isolating a nutrient to demonstrate efficacy may not be sufficient.

Just about any publication that explores the role of diet in disease invokes Hippocrates’ famous dictum, “Let food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food. William Li is a health-care pioneer… and helps our readers thrive by unpacking how the body’s own systems respond to what we eat. And, most importantly, he backs up his recommendations with dozens of studies that show us how we can use food to give our bodies the best shot possible at fighting disease. The last section has sample menus, recipes and a system for incorporating a minimum of the foods taylored to your own goals.