 | Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $2.88 A great first start.
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 | The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Buy new: $9.12 / Used from: $7.22 Amazing! Pollan is an impassioned proponent of healthy food.
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 | In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $3.29 Equally Amazing!
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 | The Hundred-Year Lie: How to Protect Yourself from the Chemicals That Are Destroying Your Health by Randall Fitzgerald
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.87 One of the most important books I've read. It's a serious one, but easy to read. This book will make you take notice!
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 | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $6.15 Fun, enjoyable and thought provoking.
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 | The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite by David Kessler
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $12.50 This is not a diet book. Reading it will help you understand the science behind frozen, prepared and chain restaurant foods.
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 | Organic, Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew by Samuel Fromartz
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.15 Helps you determine... is it really Organic according to what I think Organic means?
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 | Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by Russell L. Blaylock
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $8.99 A very serious book. Better to read this after you have read a few of the other books. Especially a good book if you are interested in artificial or processed sweetners.
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 | The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health by T. Colin Campbell
Buy new: $9.90 / Used from: $8.00 Reads a little like a textbook, but is filled with great information.
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 | Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet by Alisa Smith
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $6.84 Charming. An enjoyable read.
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 | The Foie Gras Wars: How a 5,000-Year-Old Delicacy Inspired the World's Fiercest Food Fight by Mark Caro
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $0.01 Though specialized in it's subject, it shows both controversial sides of farming and eating.
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 | The Food Pharmacy: Dramatic New Evidence That Food is Your Best Medicine by Jean Carper
Buy used from: $23.73 This book is great for alternative treatments. Those times, when you know you don't really need "medicine" or want to supplement medicications to be healthy. It is filled with natural food remedies and studies for the scinece behind them. I've enjoyed it and used it.
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