The Power of Food Dr. William Li
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By Marci Moreau
Beginning with our first breath, food is paramount
diet, and nutrition on health outcomes, the message is now clear:
we need to maintain, sustain, and promote life and
and wellness trajectory.
in our lives, nourishing our body and mind with all growth. Essential for all we are and all we will be, one
of the most powerful relationships we will ever have is with food. At its best, food provides the vital energy of life, and it impacts
the total essence of
foods we choose to eat matter and play a pivotal role in our health Standing at the forefront of this crusade, Dr. William Li has
landed in the ranks of what I consider a champion for the power of food. Beginning with his first TED Talk, “Can We Eat to Starve
Cancer?” Dr. Li has been
our human experience.
a pioneer in using food
Emotionally, food is
to promote health and
evocative, the slightest
prevent disease.
aroma or taste can
He is an interna-
transport us to another
tionally renowned
and culturally, food has
doctor, researcher,
place in time. Socially
Harvard-trained medical
the ability to connect
and president and a
lives and bring people
founder of the Angio-
together. Around our
genesis Foundation. His
tables, it is with food
groundbreaking work
and people, we share
has impacted more than
our stories, reveal our
seventy diseases, in-
passions, and celebrate
cluding cancer, diabetes,
life. Physically, food is
blindness, heart disease,
a powerful life force,
and obesity. He is also a
and when the food we
eat is cleaner, healthier,
NY Times best-selling
author of two books, Eat
and real, we experience better health and much more happiness.
to Beat Disease and Eat to Beat your Diet.
the conversations have expanded to include the science of food,
disease…each of us has an enormous opportunity to take charge of
With such a significant role in our lives, it comes as no surprise
making today a perfect storm for food, health, and wellness.
We now have the hard science telling us the right foods can
In his words, “We are truly at a turning point in the fight against
our lives using food to transform our health.”
Using food as part of prevention and treatment for mental and
strengthen, transform, and even heal, and we have the greatest
physical health is a game changer for the field of medicine. The
food. With more and more research examining the impact of food,
required countless hours of testing, analysis, and scrutiny.
leaders in science and research crusading the cause for the power of
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research to get us here has involved multidisciplinary efforts and
