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Eat to Beat Your Diet: Burn Fat, Heal Your Metabolism, and Live Longer
The pioneering physician scientist behind the New York Times bestseller Eat to Beat Disease reveals the science of eating your way to healthy weight loss.
In his first groundbreaking book, Dr. William Li explored the world of food as medicine. 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.
Now in Eat to Beat Your Diet, Dr. Li introduces the surprising new science of weight loss, revealing healthy body fat can help you lose weight; your metabolism at 60 can be the same as when you were 20; yo-yo dieting can be good for your health; 8-hour fasting windows can be as effective as 12-hour fasting windows; and losing just a little bit of weight can have big impacts on your health. Eat to Beat Your Diet shows readers how adding the right foods to your diet can heal your metabolism, reduce unhealthy body fat, and result in the kind of weight loss that can increase your lifespan and help you thrive. Foods like:
Tomatoes Avocado Watermelon Carrots Blueberries Dark Chocolate Mushrooms Lentils Purple Maize Apple Cider Vinegar Turmeric Lobster Mussel Caviar Oysters Sea Bass Green Tea Soy Milk Coffee Pomegranate Juice Both informative and practical, Dr. Li offers a four-week meal plan for food lovers; easy food swaps and shopping tips; and more than a month of crowd-pleasing recipes.
In his first groundbreaking book, Dr. William Li explored the world of food as medicine. 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.
Now in Eat to Beat Your Diet, Dr. Li introduces the surprising new science of weight loss, revealing healthy body fat can help you lose weight; your metabolism at 60 can be the same as when you were 20; yo-yo dieting can be good for your health; 8-hour fasting windows can be as effective as 12-hour fasting windows; and losing just a little bit of weight can have big impacts on your health. Eat to Beat Your Diet shows readers how adding the right foods to your diet can heal your metabolism, reduce unhealthy body fat, and result in the kind of weight loss that can increase your lifespan and help you thrive. Foods like:
Tomatoes Avocado Watermelon Carrots Blueberries Dark Chocolate Mushrooms Lentils Purple Maize Apple Cider Vinegar Turmeric Lobster Mussel Caviar Oysters Sea Bass Green Tea Soy Milk Coffee Pomegranate Juice Both informative and practical, Dr. Li offers a four-week meal plan for food lovers; easy food swaps and shopping tips; and more than a month of crowd-pleasing recipes.
Editorial Reviews
"When Dr. Li speaks, I don't just listen, I eat what he says because with his huge brain and ever-curious mind he has helped me understand that food isn't just something to fuel our days - it might just be fundamental to how many days we get to enjoy." ―Bono
"In Eat to Beat Your Diet, Dr. William Li reveals the groundbreaking discovery that the best weight loss medicines in the world can be found in your refrigerator and pantry. Blending the science of molecular nutrition with the ancient food ways of the Mediterranean and Asian cultures, Dr. Li provides a delicious roadmap to harness the power of everyday foods to activate your fat burning systems and create long term health using the magic of your fork."―Mark Hyman, MD, Senior Advisor to the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, New York Times Bestselling Author of Young Forever
"Dr. William Li is a very trusted, valued dear friend. I am very excited about this book. My entire family are all fans of Dr. Will's. This book takes on so much more for the reader. Dr. Will takes you on a tour of the grocery store, tells you all the foods you should be eating and all the data that backs that up, and 36 original recipes. Everything is incredibly researched and referenced. It's such a great tool, as are all of Dr. Will's books. Live long, live healthy."―Rachael Ray
"It is increasingly clear that our body fat does far more than just tip the bathroom scale. Fat plays such an important role in the human body that it should best be considered an organ, not just tissue. No one explains the new science of metabolism better than physician and scientist Dr William Li. With his accessible style, Dr Li reveals surprising data and joyful discoveries that will teach us all how to "Eat to Beat Your Diet."
―Sanjay Gupta, MD, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Emory University; Chief Medical Correspondent, CNN
"The diet industry is full of misinformation. Dr. Li teaches us that all fats aren't created equally and how you can get healthy without going hungry! His book Eat To Beat Your Diet busts the myths and reeducates and coaches you on what's really good for your body while sharing delicious recipes that keep food pleasure in mind."―Carla Hall, chef, author, restauranteur, Food Network host
"In Eat to Beat Your Diet, Dr. William Li shows how what we
"In Eat to Beat Your Diet, Dr. William Li reveals the groundbreaking discovery that the best weight loss medicines in the world can be found in your refrigerator and pantry. Blending the science of molecular nutrition with the ancient food ways of the Mediterranean and Asian cultures, Dr. Li provides a delicious roadmap to harness the power of everyday foods to activate your fat burning systems and create long term health using the magic of your fork."―Mark Hyman, MD, Senior Advisor to the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, New York Times Bestselling Author of Young Forever
"Dr. William Li is a very trusted, valued dear friend. I am very excited about this book. My entire family are all fans of Dr. Will's. This book takes on so much more for the reader. Dr. Will takes you on a tour of the grocery store, tells you all the foods you should be eating and all the data that backs that up, and 36 original recipes. Everything is incredibly researched and referenced. It's such a great tool, as are all of Dr. Will's books. Live long, live healthy."―Rachael Ray
"It is increasingly clear that our body fat does far more than just tip the bathroom scale. Fat plays such an important role in the human body that it should best be considered an organ, not just tissue. No one explains the new science of metabolism better than physician and scientist Dr William Li. With his accessible style, Dr Li reveals surprising data and joyful discoveries that will teach us all how to "Eat to Beat Your Diet."
―Sanjay Gupta, MD, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Emory University; Chief Medical Correspondent, CNN
"The diet industry is full of misinformation. Dr. Li teaches us that all fats aren't created equally and how you can get healthy without going hungry! His book Eat To Beat Your Diet busts the myths and reeducates and coaches you on what's really good for your body while sharing delicious recipes that keep food pleasure in mind."―Carla Hall, chef, author, restauranteur, Food Network host
"In Eat to Beat Your Diet, Dr. William Li shows how what we
Readers Top Reviews
SharonSharonJeann
Received the book today … 474 pages. I thought it was going to be a smaller simplified/condensed book, but it looks very detailed. It’s a nice thick hardcover. I’ll start reading it tonight and update later.
N. SharpSharonSha
I really like the way Dr. Li divides his book into the background science, the foods and then offers suggestions on how to personalize what I have just learned. I have only had the book for a few days, and will admit that I do jump back and forth between the first two sections because I really want to know more about the foods and how they are working for me. I will finish the first two sections before I try to develop a plan. The trip around the grocery store was very helpful for me. I have read many times to "shop the perimeter" because those center aisles are full of "bad" stuff, but Dr. Li took the time to call out all the good food that lurks on those shelves. As a senior on a limited budget, this certainly gives me more choices. Having only read about half the book so far, I may be back to comment more. I think this book is well worth the investment of your time. I keep "Eat to Beat Disease" next to my reading chair and refer to it often. I feel sure "Eat to Beat Your Diet" will also be a book to read and reread.
D RogersN. SharpS
Like a lot of us, I hate taking medicines and believe we are what we eat. As I have gotten old I realize to some degree my body is now telling me, I put up with your abuse of all the wrong things you have done to me and if you do it any more I am going to hurt you! So after getting high blood pressure, high cholesterol, bad acid reflux I started trying many different things to improve my eating and my health. Of all the books I have read and all the diets I have been on, finally Dr Li “Eat to Beat Disease” and now “Eat to Beat Your Diet” have been a life saver (literally) as since I started on Dec of 2022, I have had amazing results with improved energy, stable stool, reduced acid reflux, better sleep and stead safe weight lose. It happens in a very easy natural way by just following Dr Li’s guidance the is carefully and simply explained and incorporating more and more foods targeted to help address my specific health issues I needed to address. I love the dosage and frequency of foods to eaten that is presented better in this latest book. My health is better at 76 then it has been in a long time, thanks for having reliable, well testing information from Dr Li that allows me to do all I can to control my on health destiny! Many you health and success be greatly improved as well by following his advise and I am so thankful my neighbor shared your first book with me, and now the whole family are healthier!
ConnieD RogersN.
I don't know if it'll help w/weight loss, but it should help w/ eating healthy. I like that there are pages of extensive lists showing foods to avoid w/ food swaps right next to each other near the back of the book to make cleaning up your own personal food choices simple & easy. Everyone should be able to learn some things here. It seems to lean toward a Mediterranean diet & anti-inflammatory diet w/ some tweaks & twists. Since weight loss has a lot to do w/ WHY a person is overweight (eating too much/ wrong foods/ or hormonal issues), there are no guarantees. But it does try to address even the toughest weight loss issues (metabolic), so worth a shot to try. It'll definitely get you on the food for better health path & get you to recognize the right things to shop for @ the grocery store in a more painless way. It isn't saying to buy a bunch of stuff from health food stores or hard to get stuff or even to drastically change your whole diet. Looks to be everyday normal type foods & just making better choices for better health. Written in a simple everyday teaching way w/o being too scholarly & scientific to easily grasp. Full of versatility for personal likes & dislikes too. Very adaptable to the individual's preferences & budget from what I can see so far. I'll update this if my opinion of the book changes as I get deeper into the whole thing, especially the nitty gritty about getting down to actual weight loss & metabolic recovery.
