Eat Better

The books, in order

1. 1

   Health · 17 min

   In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

   Michael Pollan

   Taking the fat out of a processed product often meant putting more sugar in its place, swapping one problem for another disguised as a solution.

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2. 2

   Health · 16 min

   The Omnivore's Dilemma

   Michael Pollan

   A meal that seems to have dozens of different ingredients can, at its source, come almost entirely from the same cornfield, disguised under different names.

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3. 3

   Health · 17 min

   Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

   Michael Moss

   At a 1999 meeting, the CEOs of the biggest food companies in the United States were warned that what they sold was helping fuel an obesity epidemic, and they collectively decided to keep selling it the same way.

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4. 4

   Health · 16 min

   Food: What the Heck Should I Eat?

   Mark Hyman

   Hyman argues that part of the nutrition guidelines of recent decades carried the influence of those who profit from grain, sugar and industrial dairy, and not just scientific evidence.

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5. 5

   Health · 15 min

   How Not to Diet

   Michael Greger (with Gene Stone)

   A poor night's sleep messes with your hunger hormones, which helps explain why diets that ignore sleep tend to deliver less than they promise.

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6. 6

   Health · 14 min

   The Zone

   Barry Sears

   According to the author, every meal tilts your production of eicosanoids toward the good side or the bad side, a theory that later biochemistry never confirmed with the same degree of certainty the book suggests.

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7. 7

   Health · 16 min

   The Obesity Code

   Jason Fung

   For Fung, treating obesity as a hormonal disease rather than a character flaw changes the entire target of treatment: the problem stops being willpower and becomes how the body is regulated.

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8. 8

   Health · 17 min

   The China Study

   T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell II

   A scientist noticing that his own data contradicts what he was trained to believe is often the real beginning of honest research, not the end of it.

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9. 9

   Health · 16 min

   Good Calories, Bad Calories

   Gary Taubes

   A government report had to recommend something to the public before scientists had even finished arguing among themselves.

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10. 10

    Health · 15 min

    The Bulletproof Diet

    Dave Asprey

    Two or three strength training sessions a week usually change a sedentary adult's body and appetite far more than doing lots of light daily cardio.

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