Books that changed your outlook on NUTRITION!

kickitlarson

I thought it would be nice to have a thread for books that changed the way you view health, nutrition, diet, and even life.....here are mine....

The China Study by Dr. T. Colin Campbell - Science & results prove: change your diet and dramatically reduce the risk of cancer, diabetes, heart disease and obesity.

The 80/10/10 Diet by Dr. Douglas Graham - My bible. Health, happiness, vitality, energy, love, passion, no drugs, no disease....pure bliss

John Robbins - any of his books - they are all AMAZING!!!!

The Mucusless Diet by Arnold Ehret - Ehret cured himself of Bright's disease through diet.

Mad Cowboy - (there is a movie as well) Very shocking & real. Scary.

The World Peace Diet by William Tuttle

Eat to Live & also Fasting & Eating for Health by Dr. Joel Fuhrman

lee112780

I like "Breaking the bonds of food addiction" by Susan McQuillan. Very informative!

aunienue

The Secrets of Skinny Chicks: How to Feel Great In Your Favorite Jeans -- When It Doesn't Come Naturally
Karen Bridson (Author)

I take this book out of the library every few months....very motivating.

Sue

beutiful5678

I love to read! However, I've never read any books on nutrition so I'm excited to see what everyone says! (Mostly I'm posting this so I can easily find this in my list of topics I've responded to. Sorry for offering nothing substantive to your thread!)

EboniA

Women Food and God by Geneen Roth

This book changed my life. It's about food addiction but more so about really figuring out your feelings about food.

Dom_m

Pratical Ethics by Peter Singer (probably more focused book by the same author is The Ethics of What We Eat)

and

The Macrobiotic Way by Michio Kushi.

Other than that, a bunch of stuff in the forums here (Thanks Banks et al), some articles at the Australian Institute of Sport and a few other things online.

Edit: a few movies, like Super Size Me, Fast Food Nation, and Food Inc reinforced my views.

kickitlarson

Edit: a few movies, like Super Size Me, Fast Food Nation, and Food Inc reinforced my views.

You beat me!! I was going to start a thread for movies as well but I guess since we are looking for education I will add mine here as well!!

In addition to yours..........
The Secret - This is more about life but can be applied to health, fitness, diet & pretty much everything
Food Matters
Killer At Large
The Future of Food
The Beautiful Truth (Gerson Cancer Cure)
Processed People (the interviews are where the best info is)
Breakthrough (An Inspiring Raw Food Documentary)

What have we done, SCARY...........
Earthlings
The End of the Line
King Corn
coming soon Forks Over Knives

Direct effects of diet.........
Blue Gold: World Water Wars
The Age of Stupid
A Delicate Balance - The Truth
Zeitgeist (an amazing future is possible)

JensLogin

Change Your Brain, Change Your Body - Dr. Daniel Amen

Excellent book and really gives you a whole different way to view how our bodies react to food!

Enjoy!

questionablemethods

The Omnivore's Dilemma!

More recently, The China Study.

kayemme

one day i decided to read Diet for a New America (John Robbins) and Omnivore's Dilemma (Michael Pollan) back-to-back. Diet made me almost a vegetarian, and then Omnivore kind of backed that up.

Omnivore is probably my most favorite book on diet, food culture / social culture and nutrition that i've ever read.

i also read that one by Kingsolver, but didn't like it very much. i felt it was a little too "fluffy" for me.

dumb_blondes_rock

encyclopedia of healing foods - michael murry

not neccesarily for dieting, but has TONS of information of what to eat and what to avoid for certain diseases or infections, or just disorders. My dad has psoriasis and we found that milk products and red meat can cause it to inflame....and no doctor has ever told my dad anything like that

antiadipose

BUMP!

ive seen food, inc

daybyday

bump

sorry - I've never read books on nutrition!!

BlueLikeJazz

For me, a combination of reading In Defense of Food (Michael Pollan), watching Food Inc., hearing some talks by T. Colin Campbell and watching various videos on PETA's website ultimately led to the way I've changed and am continuing to change my diet.

I just started The China Study and want to read Women, Food and God because I used some of Geneen Roth's older, less popular books while I was in therapy for bulimia 5 years ago and I think if I would have stuck with her message/ideas, I wouldn't have ended up on the complete opposite of the eating disorder spectrum and 100 lbs heavier :grumble: oy vey

I love the list of movies and hope I can find some more of these on Netflix Instant Play (I know for sure I have King Corn and Killer at Large on my I.P. list)

Alleghany

Hands-down, The China Study. Reading it is like the end of innocence (but in a good way, of course!). Thanks for posting this thread since I'm getting some good ideas on what to read next.

:flowerforyou:

jessmomof3

I have read so many books on nutrition/ fitness! Here are a few favorites... really in no particular order. I read more articles online than books really but I love learning as much as I can about nutrition/ health!!

South Beach Diet (I read it 6 years ago, and it really changed my ideas from the *fat free* craze)

http://www.amazon.com/South-Beach-Diet-Delicious-Doctor-Designed/dp/B000FTWB1C/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280016112&sr=1-3

Jillian Michael's Master Your Metabolism (and the calorie counter guide too)

http://www.amazon.com/Master-Your-Metabolism-Naturally-Balancing/dp/0307450732/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280016137&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Master-Your-Metabolism-Calorie-Counter/dp/0307718212/ref=pd_sim_b_2

Jillian Michael's Making the Cut

http://www.amazon.com/Making-Cut-Fitness-Strongest-Sexiest/dp/0307382516/ref=pd_sim_b_5

Abs Diet

http://www.amazon.com/Abs-Diet-Six-Week-Flatten-Stomach/dp/1579549985

Eat Clean Diet

http://www.amazon.com/Eat-Clean-Diet-Recharged-Lasting-Better/dp/1552100677/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280016026&sr=1-1

Nutrient Timing (great for athletes!)

http://www.amazon.com/Nutrient-Timing-Future-Sports-Nutrition/dp/1591201411/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280016227&sr=1-1

Primal Blueprint

http://www.amazon.com/Primal-Blueprint-Reprogram-effortless-boundless/dp/0982207700/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280016251&sr=1-1

(and some on food addiction!)

Anatomy of Food Addiction

http://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Food-Addiction-Overeating-Compulsive/dp/0936077131/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280016279&sr=1-8

Why Can't I Stop Eating?

http://www.amazon.com/Why-Cant-Stop-Eating-Understanding/dp/1568383657/ref=pd_sim_b_4

Breaking Free from Emotional Eating

http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Free-Emotional-Eating-Geneen/dp/0452284910/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280016425&sr=1-3

HealthyChanges2010

Thanks All! Lots of good ones here I haven't read yet. :drinker:

jessmomof3

Also, thought I'd mention to check your library if you don't want to buy them! Much cheaper that way!

Oh, and a few other ones that I've read

Body For Life by Bill Phillips

Eat to Live by Joel Furhman.

You on a Diet by Dr. Oz

I'm sure that I'll think of more...

And I watched Super Size Me... very good documentary on McDonald's. Yuck!!!!

Shirleycamp

The Diet Cure...by Julia Ross... it explains how that brain works in relationship to food cravings ets..

littlelisa24

I also heard this is a good one about geneticly engineered foods which are HORRIBLE for you. It's called seeds of deception by smith.

littlelisa24

I found it on amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Seeds-Deception-Government-Genetically-Engineered/dp/0972966587/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280026376&sr=8-1

sunshine79

'Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle' by Tony Venuto.

It's an e-book but EVERYONE should read it. It really breaks down all those weight loss myths and is backed by lots of research. He defintiely knows his stuff as he's a world class bodybuilder but the information is not just for those who are into body building it's for everyone who wants to lose body fat.

tommygirl15

You Are What You Eat by Gillian McKeith

.... this is a book I go back to time and time again for reference. She also has her own show in Britain and it's not on any of my cable channels unfortunately. I remember only catching it a few times once on the Woman's network a long time ago, but she's great!

dumb_blondes_rock

You Are What You Eat by Gillian McKeith

.... this is a book I go back to time and time again for reference. She also has her own show in Britain and it's not on any of my cable channels unfortunately. I remember only catching it a few times once on the Woman's network a long time ago, but she's great!

I looooove that book, and the show!

glfprncs2

My two favorites:

The Eat Clean Diet Recharged by Tosca Reno

and

The Body Fat Solution: 5 Principles for burning fat, building lean muscle, ending emotional eating, and maintaining your perfect weight by Tom Venuto

dumb_blondes_rock

Edit: a few movies, like Super Size Me, Fast Food Nation, and Food Inc reinforced my views.

I have seen all of those movies and all i'm going to say is they are the reason I am trying to become a raw vegan! there is another one called we feed the world or something like that, which shows how much food is thrown away, talks about genetically modified foods, and just all the craziness that goes on in different parts of the world. there is also one called simply raw:reversing diabetes in 30 days, and it is AMAZING how much raw food can change your life.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/watch-online/

look in the list for "health" on this website and it has TONS of movies about health and nutirtion....and one that everyone should watch that isn't about nutritition at all is called who killed the electric car....its towards the bottom under science.

BlueLikeJazz

Edit: a few movies, like Super Size Me, Fast Food Nation, and Food Inc reinforced my views.

I have seen all of those movies and all i'm going to say is they are the reason I am trying to become a raw vegan! there is another one called we feed the world or something like that, which shows how much food is thrown away, talks about genetically modified foods, and just all the craziness that goes on in different parts of the world. there is also one called simply raw:reversing diabetes in 30 days, and it is AMAZING how much raw food can change your life.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/watch-online/

look in the list for "health" on this website and it has TONS of movies about health and nutirtion....and one that everyone should watch that isn't about nutritition at all is called who killed the electric car....its towards the bottom under science.

Thank you! This looks like a great source for lots of films, I just started watching Simply Raw, looks like it will be good and it's one I looked for when I went raw for a few weeks in January, but couldn't find. I don't think I'll go raw again anytime soon, I'm feeling really good where I'm at now, but I still like hearing and learning more about it.

bethrs

What to Eat by Marion Nestle is a fabulous book written by a nutritionist that discusses not only how to eat to lose weight, but also the environmental effect food and the food industry has, the safety of a variety of foods, and the reality of many health claims by foods. She comes highly recommended by Mark Bittman (awesome chef with level headed views of eating) and others such as Michael Pollan etc.

Of course, the standard movies have also been influential. Food Inc. was especially helpful in my understanding of what we eat and why.

Barneystinson

The Omnivore's Dilemna by Michael Pollan

4 Day Win by Martha Beck (More on the psychology behind losing weight)

The Beck Diet Solution by Dr. Judith Beck (again, more psychology)

Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe

Primal Blueprint by Mark Sisson

The Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith

Guns, Germs, and Steel (Not a nutrition book in any means, but relevant to how modern society and agriculture developed)

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schreiber

Protein Power by Drs. Michael and Mary Dan Eades

The Body Fat Solution by Tom Venuto

Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child

How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman (this is like the bible of my kitchen, honestly)

...and I like reading most anything on evolution. Obviously I have a very strong omnivorous opinion to my posts here and continue to find means to back it up


I've also slugged through a lot of others, but I don't think they've done much to inspire me. In some cases, they just made me chuckle. It's truly interesting to see how different studies and different means of living influence and affect everyone in highly different ways.

Nelski

'Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle' by Tony Venuto.

It's an e-book but EVERYONE should read it. It really breaks down all those weight loss myths and is backed by lots of research. He defintiely knows his stuff as he's a world class bodybuilder but the information is not just for those who are into body building it's for everyone who wants to lose body fat.

x2

July24Lioness

I had a bunch of vegetarian and weight watchers type books before I found out I had Type 2 diabetes, PCOS and a host of other hormone related issues. My endocrinologist recommended a low carb eating plan and I started researching.............My findings and new additions to lead me to these additions to my library of books..................



Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution, 2002 editon

South Beach Diet Book

The Mood Cure and The Diet Cure by Julia Ross (these helped me get control of the bulimia and former anorexic tendencies)

Neanderthin

The Primal Blue Print by Mark Sisson

Eat Fat, Lose Fat by Mary Enig

Know Your Fats : The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils and Cholesterol by Mary Enig

Good Calories Bad Calories by Gary Taubes

Fats are Good for You: How Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Actually Benefit the Body by Jon J. Kabara

Fat and Cholesterol are Good for You by Uffe Ravnskov

The Great Cholesterol Con by Anthony Colpo

The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It by Malcolm Kendrick

Diet & Heart Disease : It's NOT What You Think by Stephen Byrnes

And my newest editon..............

Malignant Medical Myths: Why MEdical Treatment Causes 200,000 Deaths in the USA each Year, and How to Protect Yourself by Joel M Kauffman Phd