5 books that will change your mind about food

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Celebrate World Book Day 2020 with our top ​5 food and nutrition books to read this year. These will change the way you think about food!

5 books that will change your mind about food Thrive Health & Nutrition Magazine

1. Food Fix – Dr mark Hyman

How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet–One Bite at a Time.

An indispensable guide to food, our most powerful tool to reverse the global epidemic of chronic disease, heal the environment, reform politics, and revive economies, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Hyman, MD

5 books that will change your mind about food Thrive Health & Nutrition Magazine

2. Re-Nourish – Rhiannon Lambert BSc MSc RNutr

In this part handbook and part cookbook, Rhiannon shares her food philosophy to inform, inspire and help you fall back in love with food.

​Rhiannon works from her Harley Street clinic. Read ReNourish to discover the foundations for a happy, healthy relationship with eating once and for all – and learn how to create delicious, nourishing meals with ease, from her simple Re-Nourish Menu.

5 books that will change your mind about food Thrive Health & Nutrition Magazine

​3. An Omnivores Dilemma – Michael Pollen

​In this groundbreaking book, ​Michael Pollen one of America’s most fascinating, original, and elegant writers turns his own omnivorous mind to the seemingly straightforward question of what we should have for dinner.

​What should we have for dinner? The question has confronted us since man discovered fire, but according to Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of The Botany of Desire, how we answer it today, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, may well determine our very survival as a species.

5 books that will change your mind about food Thrive Health & Nutrition Magazine

​4. Pandora’s Lunchbox – Melanie Warner

​​Meticulous research​ and detailed ​writing​, Melanie blows the lid off the ​processed food industry.

​Former New York Times business reporter and mother Melanie Warner decided to explore that question when she observed the phenomenon of the indestructible cheese. She began an investigative journey that took her to research labs, university food science departments, and factories around the country. What she discovered provides a rare, eye-opening, and sometimes disturbing, account of what we’re really eating. 

5 books that will change your mind about food Thrive Health & Nutrition Magazine

5. ​The Man Who Ate Everything – Jeffery Steingarten

A must for everyone who’s ever enjoyed a meal – this book contains everything you ever wanted to know about food!

​The questions he asks (like ‘Why aren’t the French dropping like flies?’) Jeffery will challenge everything you assume you know about what you eat, yet his characteristic wit imparts masses of revelatory information in the most palatable of ways.