So as I get further along in my journey, I am no longer just worried about just the calories, I want the best bang for my buck. After years of filling myself with high calorie, high fat, artificial crap, I want to do right by myself. As I search for what is right for me, I find that there are so many web-sites and books claiming everything under the sun. Is it no wheat or whole wheat. Is it low fat dairy or no dairy. Is it egg whites or whole eggs. The list just goes on and on. So I will do more reading and slowly decide.

This made me wonder what everyone else was reading that was helping them make their "BEST" choices.

I just ordered Wheat Belly by William Davis

I really liked "What to Eat" by Marion Nestle.

Sandi - I am in the process of reading Wheat Belly now, on my PC Kindle.

Eat to Live by Dr. Joel Fuhrman.

Eat This, Not That newsletter is not a bad source, though I get a lot of them in my inbox and tend not to have the time to read them all.

I like the Super Foods books.

Errr.. I've read so many books i'm not sure... one of the books that changed my mind on nutrition was something about asian women not getting fat...

Not really a book but I have watched Jamie Oliver's food revolution. I was watching it when I started to diet and it really changed my outlook on what to eat. I wonder if he has any books?

Even though I am not a vegetarian, I enjoyed skinny B

I'm not really big into weightloss books. Actually frankly, I'm not big into non-fiction. I also tend to get frightened away buy diet books that are too extreme in one direction and focus on one very strict idea. That being said, I've been reading Lose your Mind Not Your Weight by Rujuta Diwekar and it's pretty good, funny, with a lot of sensible ideas. I stole it from my mom last Christmas because she was reading it and laughing out loud a lot. I finally opened it recently and it's pretty good!

FOOD TO IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH by Linda Pelstring & Jo Ann Hauck -- is a great reference book (but only novel size) that tells the nutritional values (including all vitamins & minerals) of all foods, plus calories, protein, carbs, fat grams, and portion sizes, etc. It is an older book that my mother bought some time ago; but it was published by Pinnacle Books in New York City.

It has helped me so much to find the healthiest & most nutrient-rich foods to eat ...

Just The Rules . . . Tosca Reno, simple and to the point. I think its a great read and quick. Makes a lot of sense and a lot of Aha moments for me anyway

The book that got me started and has kept me strong this whole journey is Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan. I recommend it to anyone who is trying to get healthy, whether or not that includes losing weight. This is a simplified, 1 rule per page book of only about 40 pages. You can read it in one sitting, but you come away very enlightened. It is the handbook that accompanies a much more complicated and wordy full book, In Defense of Food.

I really can't recommend it enough. I am completely 100% on board and enraptured with the no-nonsense, simplified knowledge that little book imparts.

Oh I love Michael Pollan. Such a geek crush on him.

I have a few nutrition textbooks that I like and trust.

BUT, I also think there is a difference between nutrition and nutrition philosophies.

I feel like nutrition philosophies vary -- no wheat, whole grains, low carb, low sugar (etc) because people vary. I don't feel like one philosophy negates the other. You can read all you want but it's not going to clear the questions in your head.

As a new parent, I know there are all sorts of parenting philosophies. I don't think there's one right way. But I know that people are freaking PASSIONATE about one way over another. What I've learned is pick one that you feel comfortable with and stick with it. Once you've mastered it, you can always consider something more. It's not a religion.