The slogan “Eat to Beat Disease” was coined by a doctor named William Li, who has conducted research for years and studied and studied scientifically about nutrition and foods that can increase the body’s endurance so that the body remains healthy.
“Let food be thy medicine and not medicine be thy food”
Don’t make medicine our food, but make food our medicine so we can stay healthy.
One of the research results of Dr. William Li What is useful for all of us is that the human body has the power to ward off free radicals that bring disease into our bodies.
In his book “Eat to Beat Disease” dr. William Li explained that there are several effective ways in which food can be used as medicine to prevent and combat various critical illnesses.
Currently our healthcare system is struggling to cure millions of sick people. Many suffer from chronic illnesses. Many people are not aware that if we are not careful, the diet we consume every day can endanger our own health. In various countries in the world and also in Indonesia, many people die due to bad diet. Most people think that eating on a full stomach is enough. Not or paying little attention to the diet consumed every day. Are there enough nutrients and vitamins for our body’s intake? Whether the food is healthy or not is bad for our bodies. And many foods in Indonesia are fried because they are delicious and crunchy. It doesn’t matter whether the oil is clean and new or has been used for frying dozens of times.
It doesn’t matter whether the side dish contains a lot of coconut milk or not. The important thing is Yummy, delicious, tasty. You can add a few plates of rice to your meal, especially with chili sauce and salted fish. It’s not surprising that there is quite a lot of obesity in Indonesia.
Food is a tool that we can use many times a day to help reduce the risk of disease, and usually to keep our bodies healthy we think about foods that we should avoid or eliminate from our diet. However, eliminating foods from the diet is much more difficult, more challenging or less attractive than adding beneficial foods that have a protective effect against disease.
The following is an illustration of how food can be used as medicine to defeat disease.
There are 5 types of defenses in the human body that can defeat disease:
1. Angiogenesis
Angiogenesis is a process of forming new blood vessels originating from existing blood vessels in the body. This is an important and beneficial process that supports wound healing and supplies oxygen-rich blood to the body’s organs and tissues. However, in cancer sufferers, on the contrary, anhiogenesis actually supports the growth and spread of tumors by providing oxygen and nutrients to cancer cells.
Dr. William Li in his research explains that when food can be analyzed in the same way as pharmaceutical drugs and it is found that many of these foods can actually compete and function the same as drugs usually prescribed by a doctor.
Some examples such as:
There are many other foods that can be antiangiogenic, such as whole grains, oily fish, berries, broccoli, blue berries, coffee, chilies, mushrooms and others.
