"Food is by no means innocuous, adds Dr. Lu-Jean Feng, a well-known Microvascular Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon who founded the Feng Clinic. She herself assumed a vegan lifestyle, persuaded by epidemiological studies linking a plant-based diet with reduced incidence of cancer, diabetes, arteriosclerosis and heart disease."

"[Food] is not something you can isolate with having no consequences. Actually, it's pretty amazing. It comes down to how every morsel you eat affects how you feel, affects the pathological process, even affects whether a gene that predisposes you to cancer or other diseases will activate and come into reality," Feng says. Read more