Dr. William Li Shares Foods to Eat to Help Combat Diseases

In the clip, Dr. William Li explains that his new book, Eat to Beat Disease, is not a diet, but a manual for how we can stay healthy. In it, he outlines how some dietary changes can help reduce your risk of certain illnesses and describes 200 foods that can prevent and defeat diseases, including cancer. Some examples of the foods listed in his book are soy milk, dark chocolate, tomatoes, sourdough bread, mangos, and many more!

Dr. William W. Li is a world-renowned speaker, physician, scientist, and New York Times best-selling author of the Amazon #1 best-seller, Eat to Beat Disease. An international expert on health and disease fighting based on diet, lifestyle, and treatments that keep the body’s blood vessels in balance, he is CEO and President of the global nonprofit Angiogenesis Foundation. Dr. Li’s work has impacted more than 50 million people worldwide and has led to the effective prevention, novel treatment, and even reversal of diseases spanning cancer, chronic wounds, obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and vision loss. Known for his ability to predict medical breakthroughs often years before they become realized, he is also the creator of the Eat to Defeat Cancer program, a healthy eating campaign which now has spread to more than 40 countries.

Dr. Li’s work has been recognized by O Magazine, the Atlantic, USA Today, the New York Times, TIME, Wall Street Journal, and CNN, as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative. Dr. Li is also one of Dr. Oz’s diet and disease prevention experts. In the New York Times, Bono, the lead singer of the band U2, named Dr. Li one of the top 10 to watch for in the coming decade “with the potential to change the world.”