7 Nutrition Books That Will Transform Your Health

Everything you’ve been taught about your health may be wrong, these books will set the record straight and help you live a long healthy life.

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You can’t out train a bad diet. Most people are committed to some form of exercise, but they neglect to commit to the key variable to their success: Nutrition, I think the problem lies in people not educating themselves in all things nutrition. Along with that, there is an overwhelming amount out there and not knowing where to turn can put up a serious roadblock to your health.

Ignorance may be bliss but not when it comes to your health and wellness. When you are armed with the top information, you will then be able to make the best decisions that apply to your nutrition, weight loss or whatever your goals may be.

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So what is the best information to turn to? Like a carpenter who carries specific tools to get the job done I believe these seven books on nutrition and health are those tools that will help you in your pursuits.

1. Primal Body Primal Mind by Nora Gedgaudas

To know where you’re going, you need to know where you came from. This book gives you the insights into the way our bodies have worked and survived for eons. Not a lot has changed except what we have exposed them to from our man-made environment to the foods we have created. Primal Body Primal Mind educates you on the dangers that happen when modern food is introduced to a body that does not recognize it, and how we need to resort back to a more traditional diet. When we do this, we enable ourselves to eliminate disease, obesity, and many modern afflictions. This book will show you how your body is designed to be used.

2. Death By Food Pyramid by Denise Minger

Denise is one of the most thorough researchers you will ever come across, and this book sheds light on the corruption and politics that went behind our damaging American dietary recommendations. Denise shows how all the information we have been told on what to eat and avoid over the years came from bad science and corporate interests rather than your own. It will make you mad but empower you to make healthier changes in your diet.

3. Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes

If you have ever thought that calories in, calories out was a correct way of thinking, this book will turn that idea on its head. Why We Get Fat looks at the issue that almost half of our daily calories come from “healthy suggestions” such as grains and carbohydrates, but the obesity levels have gone through the roof. Gary presents very compelling reasons and research into why you probably don’t need as many carbohydrates as you think and that all calories are not created equal.

4. Wheat Belly by Dr. William Davis

This is one of the most important books written about nutrition. We have eaten wheat for thousands of years so why is it now causing such problems? Dr. Davis shows how dangerous our modern form of wheat has become and how much it has changed over the years. Wheat Belly reveals how genetic developments and new science has transformed a simple plant into something unrecognized by the body that can become very addictive.

5. Nutrition & Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price

Weston Price could be considered the Charles Darwin of Nutrition. Price was a dentist in the 1930’s that noticed the children of his patients were experiencing tooth issues that their parents had never faced. Price wondered if new modern foods were causing this. The led him on a 10-year journey around the world to observe primitive and ancient societies and to observe the damage that happened when exposed to a modern diet. Incredible insights and a travel adventure that would be challenging today let alone almost a century ago when air travel was still relatively new and limited.

6. The Dorito Effect by Mark Schatzker

What makes us keep wanting to eat food? Flavor. And as technology has changed so can we manipulate a flavor in food. Today real foods like vegetables, fruits, and even chickens have been so overbred they are virtually devoid of flavor. Flavor companies invent the tastes that we now associate with food and hijack our senses making us think we are nourishing ourselves. This leads to constant overeating while you continue to starve on a cellular level. After reading this book, you may never want to step foot in a grocery store again.

7. Sleep Smarter by Shawn Stevenson

A high level of training and proper diet can all be for naught if you neglect your sleep. A lack of sleep is creating a toxic environment in your body and that intense exercise program you follow will end up doing you more harm than good. All those great raw materials that you have been eating will not be used to their full potential without adequate sleep. Sleep Smarter shows you the crucial need for proper sleep, what happens when you don’t get it and ways to get the most efficient sleep possible.

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So there it is–seven books that will set you up for some serious success. If you only read one of these books, you will at least be making a very positive impact on your health. Read most or all of these and you will have more nutrition knowledge that the vast majority of all doctors. It’s also worth reading guides on sites like Supplement Lexicon for more great on-hand advice for your health.

All your success whether it be weight loss, muscle gain or just better health all boils down to your nutrition decisions. The more you can educate yourself, the better and as my favorite TV show growing up told us, “knowledge is power”. 

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