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RulaAsaad
RulaAsaad Posts: 71 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hello everyone,

I've decided to take the next step and get educated about health and nutrition (without getting a degree in it :p ) So I'm looking for a book that would help me understand the basics of nutrition and healthy eating so that I would be able to enhance my diet plan.
However, I'm not looking for a book that concentrates on a specific type of diet. I would like to find my own diet- picky eater in the middle east with a craving for western food... torture!

Thank you in advance for any suggestions/recommendations or any other help :)

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  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
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    The basics of nutrition and healthy eating is "get enough of everything you need every day, but not too much of anything over time, and have a relaxed, trusting and mindful attitude towards food, eating, health and body". Books can either paraphrase or contradict this; your needs, values and interpretation will dictate what you get out of any text.
  • cxwhit3
    cxwhit3 Posts: 293 Member
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    I liked Dr. Daniel Amen’s book which was about how diet effects your brain. I can’t remember the title right now. I’m on the treadmill. :-)
  • Xhalesmoke
    Xhalesmoke Posts: 5 Member
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    I like Michael Matthews Bigger Leaner Stronger, really helped break it out from diet to workout. He also makes a version for women, Thinner Leaner Stronger. Just search on Amazon :)
  • megs_1985
    megs_1985 Posts: 199 Member
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    I’ve been following James Fell on his blog and Facebook and while he can be a bit course in some of his posts (which I don’t mind but others might be put off) but his diet advice is good. He’s coming out with a book next year. This is my favorite article and what I’m trying to work from: http://www.bodyforwife.com/the-caloric-deficit-cheat-sheet/
  • Erfw7471
    Erfw7471 Posts: 242 Member
    edited January 2018
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    I ordered an actual intro to nutrition college textbook. I looked up different universities and checked their curriculum and ordered off of eBay. There are so many basic scientific nutrition principles I had forgotten from school years ago!!
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
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    Marion Nestle has some good for popular consumption books about nutrition that are not geared to promoting a particular diet. What to Eat is one of them (https://www.foodpolitics.com/what-to-eat-an-aisle-by-aisle-guide-to-savvy-food-choices-and-good-eating/)

    Walter Willett's Eat Drink and Be Healthy is very opinionated, but I think not bad.

    The Harvard Nutrition site is a good place to start (and similar to Willett, as that's his home): https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-plate/

    Pretty good article that could be a starting place too: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/science-compared-every-diet-and-the-winner-is-real-food/284595/

    Michael Pollan's books are good, although most of them are about a variety of things, not just nutrition.
  • ugofatcat
    ugofatcat Posts: 385 Member
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    This isn't a book but todaysdietitian.com is a phenomenal source of well written articles that provide a balanced view of various nutrition topics. They cite all their research so you can look up original articles for additional information. They provide information information from weight loss to diabetes to allergies to food safety.

    Some articles may not interest you because they are written for dietitian's in hospitals managing patient's tube foods and/or nutrition through the veins (TPN) so ignore those. Take what you like and leave the rest.

    Mindless Eating by Brain Wansink isn't a book about nutrition but it is about how to avoid overeating and making eating healthy easier.
  • ugofatcat
    ugofatcat Posts: 385 Member
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    Tube feeds* not tube foods.
  • nvmomketo
    nvmomketo Posts: 12,019 Member
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    Omnivore's Dilema, Good Calories Bad Calories, and Big Fat Surprise had sound nutritional advice and some research in them.
  • laur357
    laur357 Posts: 896 Member
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    Sorry it's not a book, but eatright.org is a nice website for the public put together by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics - an accrediting body for Registered Dieticians in the US. They have lots of articles and information about basic nutrition and healthful eating that isn't focused on promoting a specific diet, as well as population-specific articles (feeding toddlers, school-aged children, breastfeeding mothers, etc).

    http://www.eatright.org/resources/food/nutrition
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
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    Nutrition Wonk does a good sum up of recent nutrition articles and often an analysis of whatever the latest thing being talked about is. I like her site. https://www.thenutritionwonk.com/

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