Inside every SpeedReader summary, you'll find a thirty-second overall summary of the book, brief summaries of the key points of each chapter, a custom analysis, and additional resources like discussion questions, relevant articles, other books, and even quizzes. Li overplays the “Eat to Beat Disease” card, but his views about anti-angiogenesis and nutrition are sound.

The role of vitamins, minerals, proteins, fats and carbohydrates in the diet is well established, and we are also getting a handle on how some naturally occurring compounds in plants may contribute to the maintenance of health.

Eat to Beat Your Diet will teach you exactly what those foods are, how they work, and what the best ways are to use them. If you're interested in the book, I suggest skimming it for the recommended foods and reading the section about how to work them into your routine.

Forget everything you think you know about your body and food, and discover the new science of how the body heals itself. The pioneering physician-scientist behind the New York Times bestseller Eat to Beat Disease reveals the science of eating your way to a healthy metabolism. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Given the rather sad state of the average “western” diet, most people would benefit from paying heed to Dr.With my current health condition, any type of alcohol will make me sick so I don't see any of these tips as a one-size-fits-all.

You are battling a disease like cancer or Alzheimer’s, or your family history puts you at higher risk of disease down the line. Li does make a suggestion to make the list more manageable (choose five foods each day), the lengths of the list and the openness of the plan make this a very general “eat more plants and less processed foods” diet. He'll even eat pasta from time to time, but he knows exactly how to ramp up its disease-fighting potential. Dr William Li, pioneering medical doctor, renowned angiogenesis expert and TED speaker with over 4 million views, reveals the latest science behind the foods that really do tackle the biggest threats to our health Is your diet feeding or defeating disease?

Li nor am I making a commission, I just feel very strongly that this book can revolutionize your life.

What the author fails to tell the reader is that those studies were bankrolled by investors in the blueberry business. Li examines “food as medicine” through molecular nutrition, which applies biology and biotechnology to understand not only the components of food, but how the body responds to what it is fed. Unfortunately the author goes over numerous foods “good” for you, good for ridding the body of disease, especially cancer, indiscriminately. Maybe its because I read a lot of health books, but I knew pretty much everything that was talked about in this book.

And then there’s the poorly organized recipe section that recommends people eat such convenient meals for lunch as a “half platter of Pacific Oysters. I'll have a small piece of dark chocolate, 70 percent cacao or higher, which is one of those Grand Slamming foods," he says. It should be no surprise that the modern western diet, high in fast food, processed foods, sugary drinks, red meat, and saturated fats is incredibly unhealthy.