Books like Diet for a new America by John Robbins

Health author Michael Greger explains how diet and lifestyle can prevent and reverse the top 15 causes of premature death, backed by scientific research and his Daily Dozen plan.

The China Study examines more than 3,500 variables on the health and nutrition of 6,500 adults across China and Taiwan, linking diet to heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and obesity, and challenging popular Western dietary programs.

In this revelatory work, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson shows how food affects our moral selves, our health, and the environment. It raises questions to make us conscious of the decisions behind every bite we take: What effect does eating animals have on our land, waters, even global warming? What are the results of farming practices—debeaking chickens and separating calves from their mothers—on animals and humans? How does the health of animals affect the health of our planet and our bodies? And uniquely, as a psychoanalyst, Masson investigates how denial keeps us from recognizing the animal at the end of our fork—think pig, not bacon—and each food and those that are forbidden. The Face on intellectual, psychological, and emotional expertise over the last twenty years into the pivotal book of the food revolution.

*from the publisher:* Peter Singer, the groundbreaking ethicist whom The New Yorker calls the most influential philosopher alive teams up again with Jim Mason, his coauthor on the acclaimed Animal Factories, to set their critical sights on the food we buy and eat: where it comes from, how it is produced, and whether it was raised humanely. The Ethics of What We Eat explores the impact our food choices have on humans, animals, and the environment. Recognizing that not all of us will become vegetarians, Singer and Mason offer ways to make healthful, humane food choices. As they point out: You can be ethical without being fanatical. Praise “An absolutely indispensable book for anyone who thinks about what they eat … I cannot recommend it highly enough.” —Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of When Elephants Weep and Raising the Peaceable Kingdom “. . . vital, urgent, and disturbing.” —Dorothy Kalins, New York Times “. . . clear and persuasive.” —Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times “A no-holds-barred treatise on ethical consumption.” —Publishers Weekly

The author examines health care in the United States and proposes an integration of "the best of alternative and orthodox medicine."--p. x.