What is this stuff called food? Pollan follows four meals through from origin to dinner plate and finds that his Happy Meal is mostly corn. Wonderful description of the ultimate organic farm. Pollan is one of the most interesting writers on modern food.

Are we using the plants or are they using us? Pollan looks at the world from the point of view of the plant, focusing on apples, tulips, cannibis and potatoes, with a forray through Montsanto's food crops registered as insecticides. Well written and worthwhile.

Mary Enig writes the only book on fat by a lipids researcher. More accurate than Udo's book on "good fats", Enig gives compelling information that everything we know about fat is wrong.

Sears pioneered eating to maintain hormonal, chiefly insulin balance. Now he takes on inflammation as an addition to his zone diet, promoting fish oil consumption. Clear and well-explained.

Confused by the various diets? Find that you bloat up on the diet for your blood type? Wolcott looks at multiple ways of categorizing your metabolic type and how to customize a diet for you. One size does not fit all.

Donna Gates recommends a diet of whole probiotic-rich foods, along with food combining. The advice is generally good and quite accessible.

I hope this book gets reissued, because it is the single best source I have found on how industrial farming has strip mined our soils and depleted our foods. An apple a day in 1929 would require 29 today. And even since 1975, minerals may be down a third.