Key Takeaways:

• Presents specific foods—garlic, oats, broccoli, yogurt, berries, and many others—as everyday “medicines,” summarizing research on their protective effects.
• Encourages readers to build meals around health-promoting foods rather than thinking only in terms of what to avoid or restrict.
• Helped popularize the metaphor of the supermarket as a “pharmacy,” pushing preventive nutrition into mainstream media.