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A review by snowcrash
Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself by William W. Li
5.0
I am always looking for books on health, where I can learn something new & incorporate it into my daily routine. This is one such book.
Food is one of the four pillars of good health (others being sleep, exercise and social interaction). It is through diet that we can either harm or help ourselves. Good or bad diet can take us small steps towards disease or away from it.
That is the premise of this book. The author’s point of view is that of angiogenesis, the building out and parring back of blood vessels throughout the body. The only way for things to either grow or heal in the body is through increased blood flow.
Cancer is a central theme in the book. If cancer can not convince the body to do angiogenesis in order for it to grow, the cancer will be taken care of by the immune system. That is hugely powerful. The foods discussed within the book help immensely towards this goal.
The foods and their abilities to help fight disease are all presented with their research. No fuzzy hand waving here. Real evidence, real changes that can be made to fight disease before anything can take hold.
For me, I’ve found a couple of tweaks I can add to my already anti-inflammatory diet. Adding edamame to my salad is one. Increasing my berry intake is another (always a good thing when I like something and health experts say do more!). There are other ideas that I want to incorporate to help keep the excesses of past bad diets & the current ravages of pollution at bay.
This is a good companion book to those written by Dr. Lustig. Both this author and Dr. Lustig want to educate the reader on how best to take care of themselves through diet change. Do not expect the government or industry to help you, as their interests are not aligned to keep us healthy, but ignorant of how to keep your health in top form.
Food is one of the four pillars of good health (others being sleep, exercise and social interaction). It is through diet that we can either harm or help ourselves. Good or bad diet can take us small steps towards disease or away from it.
That is the premise of this book. The author’s point of view is that of angiogenesis, the building out and parring back of blood vessels throughout the body. The only way for things to either grow or heal in the body is through increased blood flow.
Cancer is a central theme in the book. If cancer can not convince the body to do angiogenesis in order for it to grow, the cancer will be taken care of by the immune system. That is hugely powerful. The foods discussed within the book help immensely towards this goal.
The foods and their abilities to help fight disease are all presented with their research. No fuzzy hand waving here. Real evidence, real changes that can be made to fight disease before anything can take hold.
For me, I’ve found a couple of tweaks I can add to my already anti-inflammatory diet. Adding edamame to my salad is one. Increasing my berry intake is another (always a good thing when I like something and health experts say do more!). There are other ideas that I want to incorporate to help keep the excesses of past bad diets & the current ravages of pollution at bay.
This is a good companion book to those written by Dr. Lustig. Both this author and Dr. Lustig want to educate the reader on how best to take care of themselves through diet change. Do not expect the government or industry to help you, as their interests are not aligned to keep us healthy, but ignorant of how to keep your health in top form.