Formerly Known As Food: How the Industrial Food System Is Changing Our Minds, Bodies, and Culture
By: Kristin Lawless
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
One of Bustle's "17 Best Nonfiction Books Coming Out In June 2018" • One of The Revelator's "16 New…
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1. The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor
By: Mark Schatzker
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
A lively and important argument from an award-winning journalist proving that the key to reversing … read more
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2. The Case Against Sugar
By: Gary Taubes
4.05
Format: 144 pages, Audio CD
From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat,a groundbreaking, eye-opening expose that makes the … read more
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3. Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain–for Life
By: David Perlmutter , Kristin Loberg
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Grain Brain uncovers the powerful role of gut bacteria in determining you… read more
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4. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
By: Michael Greger , Gene Stone
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
From the physician behind the wildly popular website NutritionFacts.org, How Not to Die reveals the… read more
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5. Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America
By: Michael Ruhlman
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Cookbook author and food writer Ruhlman explores the evolution of the American grocery store and ho… read more
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6. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
By: Dan Egan
4.23
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over t… read more
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7. Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat
By: Marion Nestle
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A James Beard Award-winner and the author of What to Eat and Soda Politics , leading nutritionist M… read more
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"The real question here is how you -- as a reader, eater, and citizen -- can recognize and protect yourself against the onslaught of misleading information and advice that results from food-company ma…"-Marion Nestle, Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat
8. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
By: Chris van Tulleken
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more
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- audiobook
9. Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions
By: Michael Moss
3.80
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Michael Moss uses the latest research on addiction to uncover what the scientific and medical commu… read more
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- food
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- audiobook
10. Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine
By: Robert H. Lustig
4.28
Format: 416 pages, ebook
An urgent manifesto and strategy to cure both us and the planet.Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric neur… read more
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- audiobook
11. How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America
By: Priya Fielding-Singh
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating look at dietary differences along class lines, revealing that lack of access to healt… read more
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- social justice
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12. 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success
By: Liz Moody
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of The Liz Moody Podcast comes a science-backed guide to creating your best life. … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans
By: Jane Marie
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to ex… read more
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- audiobook
14. Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs
By: Johann Hari
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. Formerly Known As Food: How the Industrial Food System Is Changing Our Minds, Bodies, and Culture
By: Kristin Lawless
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
One of Bustle's "17 Best Nonfiction Books Coming Out In June 2018" • One of The Revelator's "16 New… read more
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- foodie
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- social justice
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16. Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body
By: Scott H Hogan
4.43
Format: 614 pages, Kindle Edition
Heal painful joints, prevent injuries, and rebuild your body from the ground up.(If mainstream fitn… read more
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17. Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
By: Mark Bittman
3.89
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and pioneering journalist, an expansive look at how h… read more
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"Ecologists recognized that resources are finite, and that nature is in charge. That's basic science. Capitalists believe that nature exists to be exploited by humans, a tenet perfectly in tune with W…"-Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
"In what's usually referred to as "the Columbian Exchange" -one of history's great misnomers, given the genocide that followed - Europe took so much of value from the Indigenous people of what became …"-Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
"Domesticated animals were often too valuable to be eaten. Indeed, the amount of meat consumed per person may well have gone down with the advent of farming as wild animals became scarce, at least nea…"-Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
18. The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change
By: Bee Wilson
4.06
Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition
An award-winning food writer takes us on a global tour of what the world eats - and shows us how we… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"But in most places, the new global diet has involved a narrowing down of what people eat. Our world contains around seven thousand edible crops, yet 95 per cent of what we eat comes from just thirty …"-Bee Wilson, The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change
"Then I realised the very question I was asking was wrong. The whole point is that in the 1960s, there was no such thing as an average eater across most countries, just lots of specific and wildly div…"-Bee Wilson, The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change
"A survey of more than three hundred international policymakers found that 90 per cent of them still believed that personal motivation – aka willpower – was a very strong cause of obesity.6 This is ab…"-Bee Wilson, The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change
"It is only now that we can, following Khoury, speak of a Global Standard Eater, because it is only now that humans have come to eat in such startlingly similar ways. Perhaps the biggest change is in …"-Bee Wilson, The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change
19. Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
By: Jake Johnston
4.12
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Haiti’s state is armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after … read more
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20. A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food
By: Will Harris
4.52
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"If I could have one wish it is that every eater in America would read this book." —Ruth Reichl Fr… read more
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"The food that came out of the [industrialized] system was artifically cheap - the price was subsidized by the environment, our wildlife and aquatic life, and our bad health. We just couldn’t see thos…"-Will Harris, A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food
21. One Drum: Stories and Ceremonies for a Planet
By: Richard Wagamese
4.52
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
“The most profound truth in the universe is that we are all one drum and we need each other.” ―Ric… read more
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"Can you stand?" Waabooz asked. "Yes," Buffalo said. "Why?" "If you stand there calmly you won't sink any farther and we can work together to get you out of there." "Are you certain?" Buffalo asked. "…"-Richard Wagamese, One Drum: Stories and Ceremonies for a Planet
"Ceremony has become fraught with judgment: the idea that whoever our God might be, He requires absolute adherence to the way, to the means, of approach. But those reactions are based on fear, and the…"-Richard Wagamese, One Drum: Stories and Ceremonies for a Planet
