 | The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite (Hardcover) by David A. Kessler
Buy used from: $23.72 Point of view from former FDA Commissioner on food product practices and controlling one's eating habits.
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 | In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
Buy new: $7.50 / Used from: $7.95 Pollan's treatise on the movement to sustainable foods and healthy eating highlights the industrialized Western diet and its detrimental effects on our bodies and culture.
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 | The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $6.00 In The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan writes about how our food is grown and how that affects what we are eating.
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 | The World is Fat: The Fads, Trends, Policies, and Products That Are Fattening the Human Race by Barry Popkin
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $2.20 Dr. Barry Popkin is one of the world's most distinguished experts on obesity, the global food system, and nutrition, with extensive first-hand knowledge of the trends in the U.S., Europe, India, China, and beyond.
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 | Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think by Brian Wansink
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $5.85 Mindless Eating will change the way you look at food, and it will give you the facts you need to easily make smarter, healthier, more mindful and enjoyable choices at the dinner table, in the supermarket, in restaurants, and at the office.
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 | Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $4.99 Schlosser's expose of the American fast food industry concludes that it is systematically destroying the American diet and landscape, and undermining our values and economy.
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 | Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $8.66 Food, Inc. is a powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America.
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 | Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition, and Health, Revised and Expanded Edition (California Studies in Food and Culture) by Marion Nestle
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $7.50 Nestle (chair, nutrition and food studies, NYU) offers an expose of the tactics used by the food industry to protect its economic interests and influence public opinion.
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 | Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: $11.75 / Used from: $10.45 Malcolm Gladwell highlights why some people succeed, living remarkably productive and impactful lives, while so many more never reach their potential.
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 | Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health (Vintage) by Gary Taubes
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $9.99 Taubes (Bad Science), a writer for Science magazine, shows how public health data has been misinterpreted to mark dietary fat and cholesterol as the primary causes of coronary heart disease. Deeper examination, he says, shows that heart disease and other diseases of civilization appear to result from increased consumption of refined carbohydrates: sugar, white flour and white rice.
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 | The Fattening of America: How The Economy Makes Us Fat, If It Matters, and What To Do About It by Eric A. Finkelstein
Buy new: $19.67 / Used from: $11.50 Health economist Finkelstein and business writer Zuckerman analyze the finances behind the fat. An insightful book.
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 | Food Fight: The Inside Story of The Food Industry, America's Obesity Crisis, and What We Can Do About It by Kelly Brownell
Buy new: $14.78 / Used from: $7.58 Brownell offers his keys to obesity and advances proposals like taxing "fat" foods as solutions.
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