Eat to Beat Disease: The Body’s Five Defence Systems and the Foods that Could Save Your Life

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While he emphasized that no day is "typical" and that there are a variety of ways to eat a healthful diet, he did share some meals you might find him eating on a pretty regular basis. Li not only tells us why an apple has health benefits but even more importantly tells us which variety of apple is best! Eat to Beat Disease” is worth reading, but “Eat to Prevent Disease” would have been a more realistic title. Learn how to identify the strategies and dosages for using food to transform your resilience and health in Eat to Beat Disease.

Building on this groundbreaking work, Dr Li now brings us Eat to Beat Your Diet, a revolutionary, science-based approach to weight loss. Side note: I'm happy to know black tea is a prebiotic that reaches the intestines, so I'll use that as an excuse to keep sippin' away (with only a bit of guilt for the caffeine I'm consuming but should be staying away from).It isn’t surprising that the Greek physicians associated food with disease because obviously without food there is no life. and just listen to the "gist" of what the author is saying, you will come away with a new look on life. This book would probably be best for someone who is already familiar with eating well, and is looking for more specifics about the benefits of individual foods. Dean Ornish, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF, and multiple New York Times’ bestselling author.

He shows us how our bodies naturally resist serious diseases like cancer and heart disease through five defense systems: angiogenesis, regeneration, the microbiome, DNA protection, and immunity. There is absolutely no doubt that along with exercise and favourable genetics, diet is a key preventative when it comes to disease.

I took the health exam in the back and scored a 2, which means 0-9 is optimal health, 9 and above is bad health.

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.Indeed, there is also the issue of placing an extra burden on a patient who may believe that their cancer isn’t “being beaten” by the foods they are eating because they have not properly adhered to the recommendations. I go back and listen to the audio book just to remind myself how easy it is to make this lift altering changes! Eliminating coffee and tea because they contain caffeine, or wine and beer because they contain alcohol. The next bit discusses (with studies to back up every claim) food (hundreds of individual items) and tells you what disease it prevents or fights.

The adaptive system, with their various kinds of B and T cells that detect foreign pathogens and then build antibodies to target them.He was very organized as he broke this topic down into usable segments and not once did I feel like I was in a college class (which is a good thing).