8 Great Books on Nutrition, Eating, and Health for 2023

Hi all! I just wanted to provide some really great, informative books that helped me on my journey of health. They are packed full of studies, science, personal stories, and wonderful historical information on nutrition and nutrition policies. I’ve gotten a lot out of them from an education perspective as they are all very eye-opening.

(See my Top 10 Nutrition Books for Wellness, Energy, and Losing 100 Pounds for nutrition, diet, and healthy habits.)

Please take some time to try and read a few of them, you wont regret it. And, if you aren’t a big reader, most of them are on Audible as audio books so you can just listen to them as an option as well. Have a wonderful Sunday!

1. The Big Fat Surprise – Nina Teicholz
2. The Dietician’s Dilemma – Michelle Hurn
3. Sacred Cow – Diana Rodgers and Rob Wolf
4. The Case for Keto – Gary Taubes
5. Good Calories, Bad Calories – Gary Taubes
6. The Carnivore Cure – Judy Cho
7. Estrogeneration – Anthony Jay
8. Lies My Doctor Told Me – Ken D. Berry

Here’s a nine-minute video, 8 Great Books on Nutrition, Eating, and Weight-Loss for 2023, from my YouTube Channel.

Transcription of the video (apologies in advance for the typos) …

Hey, y’all. Hope everyone’s having a great Friday.

I just wanted to do a quick video about some of the books that I posted on my great books post. So I have all of these books. I’ve read all of these books. They’re fantastic.

The very first book that kind of got me on the path of being focused on changing how I look at food was the book, The Big Fat Surprise. And it’s been a few years since I’ve read the book, but it’s a book that I recommend to everyone when it comes to books about nutrition. The author is, Nina Teicholz. It’s full of the history of nutrition in the United States, and it’s a genuinely fascinating book.

There are parts in it that may kind of frustrate you. I know they frustrated me when I started to understand how nutrition policy and thoughts around nutrition came about in the United States, especially driven by people like Ansela Keys, who’s famous for a number of different reasons, actually. And her book goes into a huge amount of detail on that.

The other books on there. The Dietitian’s Dilemma by Michelle Hearn.

That is a fantastic book, and it really got me focused on how can carnivore be used to heal, and she does a great job kind of talking through her personal journey, going from a kid with eating disorders, severe eating disorders, and how she kind of took the path of becoming a dietitian.

You’re also talking about somebody who was an athlete as well, going from being super, super carb heavy, to understanding how carbohydrates, and actually meat more than anything, is what could fuel and heal her.

The personal examples that she incorporates into her story are really, really heartfelt and really impactful.

Sacred Cow by Diana Rogers and Rob Wolf. Amazing book. Amazing book. When you talk about, like there’s a lot of conversation right now going on about cows and meat consumption and the environment. Read Sacred Cow. Read Sacred Cow.

That book does a phenomenal job really kind of talking through the impact of agriculture versus the impact of livestock on the environment. And she talks about companies like White Oak Pastures and how they’ve kind of become a carbon sink, which is amazing. But their book book does a phenomenal job debunking a lot of that.

The scare tactics and the myths surround the impact of livestock and especially cows on the environment. And she also really does a great job in this book walking through the myths surrounding the consumption of red meat and how important meat consumption is, especially to those communities that in general don’t have access to the right nutrition. So it’s a phenomenal book. Gary Taubs. He wrote two of the books on this list.

The Case for Keto and Good Calories, Bad Calories. This man’s a phenomenal writer, very similar to Nina Tigles with regards to the fact that they’re both scientific journalists. Gary Talbes does a phenomenal job talking about how the body works and why keto can do amazing things for the body, especially for those people that have metabolic disorder or the beginnings of metabolic disorder.

They’re both really amazing books. Good Calories Bad Calories does a really great job talking through something similar to what the Big Fat Surprise does, which is looking at the history of nutrition and how those things came about, but then also looking at all these different studies and what they truly showed with regards to what food, what saturated fat especially does, and Good Calories, Bad Calories, Big Fat Surprise they’re fantastic books to provide a great education on the demonization of saturated fat and how sugar and things like that really kind of are the actual culprits.

Carnivore Cure by Judy Cho is a fantastic book as well. Judy Cho does a great job, very similar to the Dietitian’s Dilemma of intermixing that those personal stories that make a really big impact. You’re not talking about somebody who just wrote a book, who just did the research, right? And there’s nothing wrong with that. In fact, people like Gary Tob, Santa Rogers, Heigles that’s what they did. They did the research. But all of those folks actually also have experience with the life changing way of eating, focusing on meat.

All right, in The Carnivore Cure with Judy Cho, her personal stories are so impactful because she used to be vegetarian, primarily vegan, and the impact of those those food choices, what they did to her body, and how ultimately her cure was found in meat. She does a great job, again, kind of outlining the impact of meat, kind of the myths surrounding eating meat, the demonization around eating meat, and what the actual impact of not having meat does to your body.

It really is amazingly well written. She has a wonderful blog as well, Nutrition with Judy. I love her blog. I love her website. She has a lot of really great articles. I highly recommend this one. Estrogeneration by Anthony J. This is a good book. It really focuses in on estrogenics.

So not like natural estrogen in your body, but those fake estrogens that can have a hugely detrimental impact, not just on women, but on men and the environment as well, and how it’s impacting fish and wildlife, how these estrogenic materials are in so many things in our world now. And he gives some really great tips on what are some things you can do to limit your exposure to fake estrogen. And it’s a huge problem. Huge problem. It’s a really well written book.

And finally Lies My Doctor Told Me. This is a great book. Ken Berry throws in personal examples as to why he changed how he ate and the kind of advice he gave to his patients. Ken’s a doctor, a medical doctor, and it’s just a great little book. It’s a fast read and it’s super informative. Things that you wouldn’t think about. And he backs every single one of his little lies that he kind of peppers throughout the entire book.

And again, it’s a super quick read with all the research backing it and encourages you as the reader to take control of your health. Because at the end of the day, we are all personally responsible for our own health. And it’s a phenomenal book. He encourages people to share it, print stuff out from the book, use it in, use it to teach other people. It’s fantastic. I can’t say enough about it.

If people aren’t readers, right? And sometimes I’m not great at reading a physical book. I’ve listened to all these on Audible and I also now have a physical copy of all the books. But Audible is a great way, or just any kind of ebook where you can listen to it. An audiobook is a great way to increase your knowledge about nutrition, the history of nutrition, the impact of food, dispelling myths about eating meat, dispelling myths about the benefits of having an all plant based diet, because those are myths.

These books do a phenomenal job of that and getting to listen to them just as impactful as reading them. So that’s why I recommended these. That’s why I think these are great books.

I will continue to provide recommendations about movies and things like that. So please stay tuned and I hope you all have a really great rest of your day.