All things you need to know about healthy eating: 6 books about food

K. Campbell, G. Jacobson "Useful food. Dethronement of the myths about healthy nutrition "

Opens our list the widest on the subject book - a bestseller of biochemist and nutritionist Colin Campbell. He has been involved in healthy nutrition for more than fifty years and is studying the relationship between chronic diseases and human eating habits. In this book, the author sets a goal to tell readers what is a healthy diet, and how important it is for human health. It's the food he compares to a miracle pill that can prolong a person's life and protect against many diseases. Colin Campbell emphasizes that the academic community underestimates the possibilities of healthy eating, and advertising companies sell under the guise of healthy food is not what it really is ... This book is great for a wide range of readers and explains what exactly is meant by the concept of " healthy food ».

С. A. Krasnov "Diet-killer"

Healthy diet and diet are not things of the same order. However, to solve many problems, including overweight problems, people are offered not just to adjust their diet, but to drive it into a very rigid framework called "diet". Now there are more and more diets, oriental, western, diets for blood groups, express diets, promising results in a few weeks, diets from the stars ... Of course, before you decide to go on a diet, you need to consult a dietician, but if you have you do not have such an opportunity, we recommend you read this book. It deals with the most popular types of diets, their harms and risks, and explains why diets are by no means always the best way to get oneself in shape.

A. Campbell "Recipes of the" Chinese study "»

This book is the daughter of Professor Colin Campbell, whose work we wrote above. Lianne Campbell, based on her father's research, compiled a book of recipes that fully corresponded to a healthy diet. Here, recipes are collected solely on the basis of plant foods. But this does not mean that this book is suitable only for vegetarians. In the diet of any person, along with meat, fish and poultry should include whole plant food. Only here the recipes, in which meat products are not included, is not so much, and apart from the usual salad, nothing else comes to mind. With the help of this book, you can diversify your diet, include more vegetables and fruits, learn how to combine them and cook a variety of dishes without meat.

I. Mikhailova, A. Mikhailov "Raw Food"

Raw food is a fairly radical way of eating, which, however, has become very popular lately. Many nutritionists and scientists even call raw food the power of the future. But, as in everything, in raw food we need to get a good look before deciding to radically change our habitual diet. The main advantage of this book is that the authors do not just propagandize and advertise this way of eating, promising health and longevity, but in detail disassemble its pros and cons, benefits and harms, indications and contraindications. To whom the raw diet is suitable and how to proceed, if you have already decided to do this, the authors give a lot of useful information. Also, the book gives a lot of different recipes, refuting the idea that in raw food and there is nothing to cook.

K. Price "Vitamania. The history of our obsession with vitamins "

No matter how healthy our food was, it is unlikely to do without vitamins and food additives. They are prescribed by doctors, they are advised by friends and simply advertised at every step ... We drink them all year round just like that, just in case. The author suggests to stop and understand this issue. When did they open vitamins and how did they appear on the market? Do they need to be taken in the modern world, when a person has access, in general, to all natural sources of vitamins? Who should take them and when? Are there overdoses? And in general, is it necessary that vitamins only benefit and nothing but benefit? The book deals with all these issues in a complex, and after reading it you can confidently answer the question of whether vitamins are necessary for you personally.

D. Telthebaum, K. Fidler "Without sugar"

Sugar has always been in the center of attention of supporters of healthy nutrition. Not surprisingly, because of excessive consumption of sugar, skin and teeth deteriorate, extra pounds are added, the likelihood of getting diabetes is growing - this, perhaps, everyone knows. But the doctor Jacob Telteibaum, a specialist in chronic fatigue, goes further, and binds sugar almost to all the processes taking place in our body. His research is based on the thesis that there is not necessarily too much sugar to damage the body, enough and minor doses. The author offers each reader to determine their type and degree of sugar dependence and teaches how to get rid of it, and how to replace sugar.