7 of the Best Weight Loss Books for a Healthier You.

Whether it’s January or November, the time to start a healthier lifestyle starts when you choose. Choose now. And to help inspire you to live better, here are 7 of the best weight loss books that don’t focus on diets but rather on a truly healthier you:

1. In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto

If you are going to read just one book, this is it. Michael Pollan presents a reader-friendly approach to a balanced way of eating. He doesn’t tell you to stop eating this or that. It’s more about mindful eating, portion control, and more vegetables.

 

2. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

After reading In Defense of Food, you will likely be interested in more of Pollan’s works. Food Rules is a good book but it’s quite simplistic and picks up from a lot of In Defense of Food. For something more substantial, this book does an in-depth discovery of the food chain and how that ultimately affects our eating and lifestyle.

 

3. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven and Reverse Disease

This is the current “it-book” when it comes to reading about plant-based food choices. And, Dr. Michael Greger gives an abundance of scientific evidence as to how you can live better and with less chance of diseases. If you are looking for a book to convince you to eat more vegetables, this is a must.

 

4. Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health

This is a quintessential book when it comes to learning about the background of food companies and nutrition. Learn how these companies influence buyers to purchase products that are seemingly and supposed to be healthy. This is an eye-opener.

 

5. The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health

Like How Not to Die, this is another extensively detailed book about the dangers of animal protein and the healing benefits of a plant-based lifestyle. If you truly want to heal from the inside out, give this book a read.

 

6. The Diet Myth

Have you yo-yo’d from diet to diet, and yet still nothing really keeps the weight off? This book details how diets really don’t work and that you must first understand that the key to weight loss is a healthy gut.

 

7. Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It

From athletes to nutrition articles, we are always told to eat more protein for a healthy and fit body. Yet in reality, too much protein destroys us from the inside. The healthiest countries in the world, like Japan and Thailand, eat less protein than the Western countries obsessed with getting more and more protein. This is a fascinating read to truly help you live healthier and keep the weight off.

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