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Books like In Defense of Food
The best books like In Defense of Food are The Omnivore's Dilemma, Bigger Leaner Stronger, and How Not to Die. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan is about nutrition, food politics, eating culture. 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 Omnivore's Dilemma
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Michael Pollan · Health
The Omnivore's Dilemma is Michael Pollan's investigation into four food chains — industrial, industrial organic, local pastoral, and hunted-and-gathered — organized around the question of what we should eat.
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.
Both dig into nutrition.
Read the summary → - How Not to Die
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Michael Greger · Health
How Not to Die is Michael Greger's systematic argument that the fifteen leading causes of death in the United States are largely preventable through diet and lifestyle change.
Both dig into nutrition.
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- Eating Animals
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Jonathan Safran Foer · Health
Eating Animals began as a project to understand what food Foer would feed his newborn son.
Both dig into eating culture.
Read the summary → - The China Study
- 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.
Both dig into nutrition.
Read the summary → - Food Rules
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Michael Pollan · Health
Food Rules is Michael Pollan's shortest and most direct book: sixty-four simple rules for eating, distilled from his longer works and from the accumulated wisdom of food cultures around the world.
Both dig into nutrition.
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 dietary science.
Read the summary → - The Paleo Solution
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Robb Wolf · Health
The Paleo Solution is Robb Wolf's argument that most chronic disease — obesity, type 2 diabetes, autoimmune conditions, cardiovascular disease — traces back to a mismatch between the foods modern humans eat and the foods our genome evolved to process.
Both dig into nutrition.
Read the summary → - The Primal Blueprint
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Mark Sisson · Health
The Primal Blueprint is Mark Sisson's framework for applying evolutionary logic to every major lifestyle domain: what to eat, how to exercise, how to sleep, how to manage stress, and how to play.
Both dig into nutrition.
Read the summary → - The UltraMind Solution
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Mark Hyman · Health
The UltraMind Solution is Mark Hyman's argument that most mental and cognitive problems — depression, anxiety, ADHD, brain fog, memory decline — are not primarily psychiatric disorders but symptoms of underlying physical imbalances.
Both dig into nutrition.
Read the summary → - Ultraprevention
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Mark Hyman · Health
Ultraprevention, written by Mark Hyman and Mark Liponis, is an early statement of the functional medicine approach to chronic disease.
Both dig into nutrition.
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Books like In Defense of Food: quick answers
What are the best books like In Defense of Food?
The best books like In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan are The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, Bigger Leaner Stronger by Michael Matthews, How Not to Die by Michael Greger, Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, The China Study by T. Colin Campbell, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with In Defense of Food, such as nutrition, food politics, eating culture.
What should I read after In Defense of Food?
A natural next read after In Defense of Food is The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. A kindred health read. Other strong choices are Bigger Leaner Stronger by Michael Matthews, How Not to Die by Michael Greger, Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer.
What books are similar to In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan?
In Defense of Food centers on nutrition, food politics, eating culture. Books with a similar feel include The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, Bigger Leaner Stronger by Michael Matthews, How Not to Die by Michael Greger, Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, The China Study by T. Colin Campbell, Anticancer: A New Way of Life by David Servan-Schreiber — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
