Eat to Beat Your Diet

'Add before you take away' has been my motto for decades. Dr. William Li brings that philosophy to life in Eat to Beat Your Diet by revealing what foods rev up your metabolism to help you get (and stay) lean and healthy. 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.

JJ Virgin, Author of 4 New York Times bestsellers including The Virgin Diet and Sugar Impact Diet

An interesting, thought-provoking read.

Richard Branson

Anyone who wants their health to glow should read this book! Dr. Li shows us smart, easy lifestyle choices that anyone can make to heal their metabolism and elevate their health - without ever having to go on a strict diet.

Cindy Crawford

Deprivation and restriction are the old, failed ways of weight loss. The new model for metabolic health is to Eat To Beat Your Diet by enjoying an abundance of delicious, metabolism-supporting foods. Lose the fads and find the facts. Grab this book and get started today!

Will Bulsiewicz, MD, New York Times-bestselling author of Fiber Fueled

Dr Li has written yet another phenomenal book that will become a critical resource for millions of people. Everybody needs to read this book and learn how food can protect and support our health whilst also improving metabolism, without having to succumb to restrictive dietary practices. Dr Li expertly discusses how food can be flavourful, enticing, delicious and healing through the lens of rigorous modern science and traditional culinary practices. It is a masterpiece of writing.

Dr. Rupy Aujla, MBBS, BSc, MRCGP; Founder of 'The Doctor's Kitchen'

Dr. Li explains clearly, in language the layman can understand, what we have always intuitively known: food is the best medicine. Eat to Beat Your Diet shows us the How and Why.

James Taylor

Dr. Li is rare among physicians in that he's actually more interested in keeping you healthy than chasing your disease. In this excellent new book, he marshals in the best, up-to-date science in an engaging way. If you want to know what to eat and why, it's all here!

Dan Buettner, National Geographic Fellow and #1 New York Times Bestselling author of The Blue Zones books

Dr. Li pulls back the curtain of confusion on metabolism and provides a yellow brick road of truth that includes the scientifically proven lifestyle and dietary habits that will transform your health.

Scott Stoll, MD, Co-founder of The Plantrician Project, Olympian, Author, International leader of Lifestyle Medicine

Eat to Beat Your Diet has scientifically backed information that helps you optimize your metabolism, restore healing and homeostasis, and regulate your weight naturally. It has all you need for a healthy lifespan. Highly recommended.

Deepak Chopra, MD

Eat to Beat Your Diet is a pioneering book that provides an innovative and simple approach toward beating disease and increasing longevity. Dr. William Li shows us how to control your body fat by taking charge of your metabolism. His introduction of the 'MediterAsian' way to eating supports the compelling scientific case that food is medicine. What makes Eat to Beat Your Diet an exciting read is the way the author takes you on a virtual grocery shopping journey to find the best foods. It is clear that Dr. Li walks the talk.

Louis J Ignarro, PhD, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Author of NO More Heart Disease and Dr. NO

In Eat to Beat Your Diet, Dr. William Li shows how what we include in our diet is as important as what we exclude. He integrates both the science and the joy of foods that improve our metabolism and reduce our risk of chronic diseases-eating well and eating good-and delivers new insights from human studies showing how we can eat foods we love that are also foods as medicine. If you want a prescription for eating well while enhancing your health, you can't beat Eat to Beat Your Diet.

Dean Ornish, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF, and multiple New York Times’ bestselling author

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

In his incredibly empowering and enlightening book Eat to Beat Your Diet, Dr. William Li has given us a crucial tool to understanding how eating consciously can help us look and feel healthier and avoid unnecessary illness.

The Edge

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

Make your metabolism go from good to great with this empowering book by Dr. William Li.

Tony Robbins

There is a revolution happening in our understanding of food and metabolic health. Would you like to know which foods and beverages are clinically proven to teach your fat cells to shrink themselves? What about foods that block your fat cells from growing excessively in the first place? 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. It's a game-changer!

Shawn Stevenson, Bestselling author of Eat Smarter and Sleep Smarter

This book is a wonderful minestrone - a science-led mash up of fascinating facts with smart guidance on where food and fat should be going in the future (who thought fat could be so interesting ?) with a light sprinkling of food history, tasty menus and the immortal Bruce Lee. A perfect feast for someone who wants to lose a few pounds and get a lot healthier. Like me in fact.

Peter Gabriel

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

With this book, Dr. Li does all the heavy lifting - weeding through the confusion about food - providing us with the tools to manage how and what we consume metabolically, and in so doing provides us with the promise of a healthy mind and body.

Bradley Cooper