Dr William Li is a globally renowned medical doctor and bestselling author who will shake up your beliefs around body fat. He’s the author of Eat to Beat Disease and Eat To Beat Your Diet. In recent decades, he’s had a pivotal role in developing new medicines and is a pioneer in the field of research called Food As Medicine.

In this episode, he explains fat, why not all fat is bad, where it goes in your body and the foods that will target fat. 

00:00 This is what skinny fat is

01:16 What you get wrong about fat burning

11:13 Remember this when you step on the scales

16:55 Where does visceral fat form first?

21:00 Fat and mental health

30:00 Dark chocolate!

32:55 Dried fruit vs Fresh fruit

40:05 We need to rethink lunch breaks

48:10 Why is brown fat brown

50:31 How good is green tea?

53:40 Coffee vs green tea?

01:05:15 Dr Li’s Five essential foods 

Links:

ZOE Science & Nutrition podcast

Books

Eat to Beat Your Diet

Eat to Beat Disease

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