24 best-selling nonfiction books like Dark Calories: How Vegetable Oils Destroy Our Health and How We Can Get It Back by Catherine Shanahan

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Dark Calories: How Vegetable Oils Destroy Our Health and How We Can Get It Back

By: Catherine Shanahan

4.36

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

'Mind-blowing - will change the way you eat forever.' Davinia Taylor, Sunday Times number one bests…

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1. Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease

By: Gary Taubes

4.17

Format: 601 pages, Hardcover

For decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a… read more

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"[T]he salient question is whether the increasing awareness of [heart] disease beginning in the 1920s coincided with the budding of an epidemic or simply better technology for diagnosis."

-Gary Taubes, Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease

"The laboratory evidence that carbohydrate-rich diets can cause the body to reain water and so raise blood pressure, just as salt consumption is supposed to do, dates back well over a century"

-Gary Taubes, Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease

"Cohen testified that there was no 'direct relationship' linking heart disease to dietary fats, and that he had been able to induce the same blood-vessel complications seen in heart disease merely by …"

-Gary Taubes, Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease

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2. 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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  • nonfiction
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3. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more

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"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"

-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"

-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"

-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

4. Us

By: David Nicholls

0.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Douglas Petersen may be mild-mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that, against a… read more

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5. Swallow This: Serving Up the Food Industry's Darkest Secrets

By: Joanna Blythman

4.40

Format: 304 pages,

From the author of What to Eat and Shopped, a revelatory investigation into what really goes into t… read more

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6. Calypso

By: David Sedaris

4.11

Format: 272 pages, ebook

David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book. If you've ever la… read more

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"In France the most often used word is “connerie,"

-David Sedaris, Calypso

"A young couple strolls by, the adoration of one bouncing off the tolerance of the other."

-David Sedaris, Calypso

"We’re like a pair of bad trapeze artists, reaching for each other’s hands and missing every time"

-David Sedaris, Calypso

"We're not pessimists, exactly, but in late middle age, when you envision your life ten years down the line, you're more likely to see a bedpan than a Tony Award."

-David Sedaris, Calypso

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7. How to Build a Boat

By: Elaine Feeney

3.78

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more

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"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"

-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat

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8. Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

By: Julie Smith

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith provides… read more

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"When we focus on trying to fix the problem, it is easy to underestimate the power of simply being there."

-Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

"In acceptance, the new reality is still not OK. It is still not as we want it to be. But we begin to take on the new reality, listen to our needs, open up to new experiences and make connections."

-Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

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9. 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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  • nutrition
  • nonfiction
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10. Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

By: Ken D. Berry

4.40

Format: 158 pages, Kindle Edition

Has your doctor lied to you? Chances are he has, and most likely unknowingly. If you've been misle… read more

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11. The Carnivore Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Optimal Health by Returning to Our Ancestral Diet

By: Paul Saladino

4.20

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

PRINT VERSION AND AUDIOBOOK VERSION AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 25TH! Millions of Americans suffer from ai… read more

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12. Stay off My Operating Table: A Heart Surgeon’s Metabolic Health Guide to Lose Weight, Prevent Disease, and Feel Your Best Every Day

By: Philip Ovadia

4.42

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

What foods to put on your table so you don’t end up on mine For the past century, we’ve been bomba… read more

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13. Stillness Is the Key

By: Ryan Holiday

4.23

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, bestselling author Ryan Holiday made ancient wisdo… read more

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"Build a life you don't need to escape from."

-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key

"Routine, done for long enough and done sincerely enough, becomes more than routine. It becomes ritual—it becomes sanctified and holy."

-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key

"If solitude is the school of genius, as the historian Edward Gibbon put it, then the crowded, busy world is the purgatory of the idiot."

-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key

"Put yourself in tough situations. Accept challenges. Familiarize yourself with the unfamiliar. That's how you widen your perspective and your understanding."

-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key

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14. The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You

By: Margareta Magnusson

3.58

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author of The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning— now a TV series… read more

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"...unless you depend on your looks for your career or your joy, hinging your life on looking young is such a bad idea."

-Margareta Magnusson, The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You

"The world is always ending, and yet it continues to survive. We must always hope for a sustainable future, but hope is not enough."

-Margareta Magnusson, The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You

"It is never too late to do anything, unless it is really too late and you are. dead. The moment you start thinking it is too late, then you begin to die. I will keep going and do all I want to do."

-Margareta Magnusson, The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You

"The older I get, the more I find that I remember clearly all the things I said yes to, just when I was about to say no. I must admit I have not been open-minded all the time. I just wish I had been."

-Margareta Magnusson, The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You

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15. 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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16. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

By: Katherine May

3.62

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more

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"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

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17. Impossible to Forget

By: Imogen Clark

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

In this poignant novel from million-copy bestselling author Imogen Clark, an extraordinary final wi… read more

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18. Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health

By: Casey Means

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A bold new vision for optimizing our health now and in the future. What if depression, anxiety, … read more

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19. Love Untold

By: Ruth Jones

4.33

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'Love, mess, secrets; this story of four generations of wo… read more

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20. 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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21. The Good Part

By: Sophie Cousens

4.03

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

By the New York Times bestselling author of Just Haven't Met You Yet, a downtrodden twenty-six-year… read more

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22. We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation

By: Eric Garcia

4.14

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

“This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doc… read more

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23. Why We Eat (Too Much): The New Science of Appetite

By: Andrew Jenkinson

4.22

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

For over two decades, weight loss surgeon Dr Andrew Jenkinson has treated thousands of people who h… read more

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24. Eat Stop Eat: Intermittent Fasting for Health and Weight Loss

By: Brad Pilon

4.00

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

The Official Eat Stop Eat by Brad Pilon. Thousands of books have been written about the unique bene… read more

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25. The Elusive Benefits of Undereating and Exercise: from Why We Get Fat (A Vintage Short)

By: Gary Taubes

3.65

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

It should come as no surprise that low calorie and low fat diets rarely accomplish what they are ex… read more

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26. Dark Calories: How Vegetable Oils Destroy Our Health and How We Can Get It Back

By: Cate Shanahan

4.40

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

The New York Times bestselling author of Deep Nutrition explains how a group of eight little-known … read more

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27. A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic

By: Laura Dodsworth

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

This is a book about fear. Fear of a virus. Fear of death. Fear of losing our jobs, our democracy, … read more

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28. This Is How Your Marriage Ends: A Hopeful Approach to Saving Relationships

By: Matthew Fray

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A thoughtful, down-to-earth, contemporary guide to help partners identify and address relationship-… read more

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29. The Clot Thickens

By: Malcolm Kendrick

4.70

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

“Malcolm Kendrick's masterly survey of the enduring mystery of heart disease reads like a detective… read more

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30. Dark Calories: How Vegetable Oils Destroy Our Health and How We Can Get It Back

By: Catherine Shanahan

4.36

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

'Mind-blowing - will change the way you eat forever.' Davinia Taylor, Sunday Times number one bests… read more

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31. The Book of Beginnings

By: Sally Page

4.23

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Keeper of Stories, comes the next uplifting story … read more

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14 must-read nutrition books like Dark Calories: How Vegetable Oils Destroy Our Health and How We Can Get It Back by Catherine Shanahan

Transform Your Habits

Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease

Gary Taubes

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor

Mark Schatzker

4.75

Transform Your Habits

Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

Ken D. Berry

4.40

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19 Top nonfiction books like Dark Calories: How Vegetable Oils Destroy Our Health and How We Can Get It Back by Cate Shanahan

Transform Your Habits

Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease

Gary Taubes

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food

Catherine Shanahan , Luke Shanahan

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine

Robert H. Lustig

4.28

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