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Books like The China Study
The best books like The China Study are How Not to Die, In Defense of Food, and Bigger Leaner Stronger. The China Study by T. Colin Campbell is about nutrition, plant-based diet, cancer prevention. 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.
- 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.
Shares nutrition and plant-based diet with The China Study.
Read the summary → - 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.
Both dig into nutrition.
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.
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- Good Calories, Bad Calories
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Gary Taubes · Health
Good Calories, Bad Calories is Gary Taubes's five-hundred-page argument that the conventional wisdom on diet and weight — specifically the idea that fat makes you fat and that eating less while exercising more is the path to weight loss — is not only wrong but has been maintained in the face of decades of contradictory evidence.
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.
Shares nutrition and cancer prevention with The China Study.
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.
Both dig into evidence-based medicine.
Read the summary → - Eat to Live
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Joel Fuhrman · Health
Joel Fuhrman, a family physician specializing in nutritional medicine, built Eat to Live around a single equation: Health equals nutrients divided by calories, or H = N/C.
Both dig into plant-based diet.
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 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 food industry.
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.
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Books like The China Study: quick answers
What are the best books like The China Study?
The best books like The China Study by T. Colin Campbell are How Not to Die by Michael Greger, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, Bigger Leaner Stronger by Michael Matthews, Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes, Anticancer: A New Way of Life by David Servan-Schreiber, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The China Study, such as nutrition, plant-based diet, cancer prevention.
What should I read after The China Study?
A natural next read after The China Study is How Not to Die by Michael Greger. Shares nutrition and plant-based diet with The China Study. Other strong choices are In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, Bigger Leaner Stronger by Michael Matthews, Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes.
What books are similar to The China Study by T. Colin Campbell?
The China Study centers on nutrition, plant-based diet, cancer prevention. Books with a similar feel include How Not to Die by Michael Greger, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, Bigger Leaner Stronger by Michael Matthews, Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes, Anticancer: A New Way of Life by David Servan-Schreiber, Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
