The Medicine on Your Plate

What would you think if you left your doctor’s office with this type of prescription?:  

• Eat one cup of blueberries per week

• Eat 2-3 cups of tomato sauce per week

• Eat a handful of walnuts every day

And that’s just for starters.  Dr. William Li, a leading cancer scientist and physician, who also serves on the faculty at Harvard Medical School, has taken the notion of “food is medicine” to a whole new level.  

His book Eat to Beat Disease looks at the different types of foods that can make a difference in staving off cancer - and to which level those foods need to be consumed in order to have an impact.  It is pretty compelling.

While this may sound a bit extreme, when you get right down to it -  

Every morsel of food has the ability to prevent disease … or create disease.  It has the ability to amp up, or amp down, bad genes.