The Best Books on Nutrition and Healthy Eating {To Read in 2020}

Our Top Picks for the Best Books on Nutrition and Healthy Eating

• Best Anti Inflammatory: Anti Inflammatory Diet: Beginners Guide to Heal the Immune System and Reduce Inflammation Naturally with a Healthy Plant Based Diet “If you are a true beginner, buy this book. I found this book is super informative and useful! It explained what exactly the Anti-inflammatory diet for beginners is, what the benefits are and how to start a meal plan.”
• Best Intermittent Fasting: Feast, Fast, Repeat: The Comprehensive Guide to Delay, Don’t Deny Intermittent Fasting “Fast. Feast. Repeat. is not only a guide to moving toward an intermittent fasting lifestyle, but is a permission book: eating is every bit as important as fasting on Stephens’ plan!”
• Best Healthy Habits: Healthy Dividends: Investments in Nutrition, Movement, and Healthy Habits that Pay Off “This is a great little treasure of a book for anybody looking to make and keep lasting changes to their lifestyle. With all the information out there (sometimes contradictory), this book puts it all in perspective and synthesizes it for you.”
• Best for Binge Eating:  Binge Eating: Make Peace with Food  “Once you learn to control your urges, your binges, and your life, it’ll come naturally to you. You can live a normal life just like everybody else’s. Life doesn’t need to be miserable, and you can start walking your path towards freedom.”
• Best Intuitive Eating: Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Non-Diet Program to Stop Overeating, End Your Battle with Food, and Find Freedom from Dieting Forever “The benefits of mindfulness are achieved when you no longer feel the tension of restriction, and instead, find a core connection with nature, food and the world in a more meaningful way.”
• Best for Independent Thinkers: Food Bullying: How to Avoid Buying BS “Food Bullying upends the way you think about food and gives you permission to make eating choices based on your own social, ethical, environmental, and health standards rather than brand, friend, or Facebook claims.”
• Best for Emotional Eaters: Emotional Eating Workbook: Practical Plans and Ideas to Improve Your Life, Stop Compulsive Eating, Overeating, Emotional Eating, and Change Your Relationship with Food “Outstanding workbook! Gives you some excellent tools in dealing with unhealthy food behaviors. The book requires much more than simply reading it. It has a lot of exercises that are outstanding in helping you understand your behaviors associated with food and how to change the negative ones.”
• Best in Diet Techniques: Carb Cycling: The Science and Practice of Mastering Your Metabolism “Losing weight will always be hard when we are encouraged to starve our bodies of certain things and even more so when we don’t understand WHY we are being told to do it.
  Carb Cycling is a different approach that will ensure that your weight loss plan goes exactly as you want it to, giving you the healthy and toned body you always dreamed of.”
• Best in Meal Prep: Meal Prep Plan: The Ultimate Guide to Saving Time, Losing Weight, and Improving Your Life by Meal Prepping “This is a great meal prep cookbook. I own a few meal prep cookbooks and this is by far the best one. It has meal plans for 6 weeks that included; the shopping lists, a step by step of how and when to cook everything, the recipes. And at the end it has a bunch of recipes so you can put together your own meal plan. It really teaches you everything you need to know and helps to take some of the stress off of meal prepping.”
• Best Back to Basics: Simply Real Eating: Everyday Recipes and Rituals for a Healthy Life Made Simple “This is more than a cookbook―Sarah simplifies the steps of eating well and taking care of yourself. There is so much noise telling us what is ‘healthy,’ and I am grateful that Sarah boils it down and gives us all the practical steps in this book. It is a thoughtful and beautiful reference for both people who are comfortable in the kitchen and those ready to learn.”
• Best for Kids: Tips and Tricks To Become A Kid Food Explorer “This is a wonderful book for children to learn, practice and have fun. Children are eager to try and cook their own food”
• Best in New Research: Autophagy: The Complete Guide to Start Ketogenic Diet and Intermittent Fasting —Lose Weight and Understand the Metabolic Autophagy to Activate the Anti-Aging Process and Reduce Inflammations “As humans advance in age, the cells are subjected to wear and tear. Some of them lose their effectiveness because of constant use. This manifests as signs of age-related diseases. The good news is that you can take practical steps to get rid of worn-out cells.”