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Books like Good Calories, Bad Calories
The best books like Good Calories, Bad Calories are The Case Against Sugar, The Obesity Code, and 80/20 Running. Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes is about nutrition science, obesity, carbohydrates. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Case Against Sugar
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Gary Taubes · Health
The Case Against Sugar is Gary Taubes's focused argument that sugar — sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup specifically — is the primary cause of the obesity and diabetes epidemics, and the likely driver of the cluster of diseases, from heart disease to Alzheimer's, that researchers now associate with insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome.
Both dig into obesity.
Read the summary → - The Obesity Code
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Jason Fung · Health
The Obesity Code is Jason Fung's argument that obesity is a hormonal disease, not a behavioral one, and that the treatment follows from that understanding.
Both dig into obesity.
Read the summary → - 80/20 Running
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Matt Fitzgerald · Health
80/20 Running is Matt Fitzgerald's evidence-based argument that the most common mistake recreational runners make is training too hard, too often.
A kindred health read.
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- In Defense of Food
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Michael Pollan · Health
In Defense of Food opens with seven words that amount to a quiet provocation: Eat food.
A kindred health read.
Read the summary → - The Complete Guide to Fasting
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Jason Fung · Health
Jason Fung is a Canadian nephrologist who became convinced that the conventional dietary advice given to type 2 diabetics — eat less, eat frequently, reduce fat — was not only ineffective but was contributing to the disease it was meant to treat.
Both dig into obesity.
Read the summary → - Anatomy of an Epidemic
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Robert Whitaker · Health
Anatomy of an Epidemic is Robert Whitaker's investigation into a paradox: as the use of psychiatric medication in the United States has increased dramatically over the past half-century, the number of people on disability due to mental illness has risen in parallel.
A kindred health read.
Read the summary → - Anatomy of the Spirit
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Caroline Myss · Health
Anatomy of the Spirit is Caroline Myss's attempt to synthesize three major spiritual traditions — the Hindu chakra system, the Christian sacraments, and the Kabbalistic Tree of Life — into a unified model of human energy anatomy.
A kindred health read.
Read the summary → - Anticancer: A New Way of Life
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David Servan-Schreiber · Health
Anticancer is David Servan-Schreiber's account of his own experience with brain cancer, diagnosed when he was thirty-one, and what he learned over fifteen years about the lifestyle and environmental factors that feed or suppress tumor growth.
A kindred health read.
Read the summary → - Bad Pharma
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Ben Goldacre · Health
Bad Pharma is Ben Goldacre's sustained indictment of the pharmaceutical industry's manipulation of clinical trial evidence, and of the regulatory and academic institutions that have failed to stop it.
A kindred health read.
Read the summary → - Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande · Health
Being Mortal is Atul Gawande's investigation into why modern medicine is so bad at helping people die well.
A kindred health read.
Read the summary → - Better
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Atul Gawande · Health
Better is Atul Gawande's examination of what it means to perform well in medicine, a field where the stakes are as high as they get and where the gap between ordinary and excellent care routinely determines who lives and who dies.
A kindred health read.
Read the summary → - Bigger Leaner Stronger
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Michael Matthews · Health
Bigger Leaner Stronger is Michael Matthews's practical guide to building a lean, muscular physique through evidence-based strength training and flexible dieting.
A kindred health read.
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Books like Good Calories, Bad Calories: quick answers
What are the best books like Good Calories, Bad Calories?
The best books like Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes are The Case Against Sugar by Gary Taubes, The Obesity Code by Jason Fung, 80/20 Running by Matt Fitzgerald, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, The Complete Guide to Fasting by Jason Fung, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Good Calories, Bad Calories, such as nutrition science, obesity, carbohydrates.
What should I read after Good Calories, Bad Calories?
A natural next read after Good Calories, Bad Calories is The Case Against Sugar by Gary Taubes. Both dig into obesity. Other strong choices are The Obesity Code by Jason Fung, 80/20 Running by Matt Fitzgerald, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan.
What books are similar to Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes?
Good Calories, Bad Calories centers on nutrition science, obesity, carbohydrates. Books with a similar feel include The Case Against Sugar by Gary Taubes, The Obesity Code by Jason Fung, 80/20 Running by Matt Fitzgerald, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, The Complete Guide to Fasting by Jason Fung, Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
