The Whole Foods Diet
The Lifesaving Plan for Health and Longevity

On the surface, this book is an exhortation to eat better (much better) than the American diet. Is it any surprise, though, that the primary author is the CEO of Whole Foods? WHile never overt, there's a constant undercurrent of promotion for the chain. The book includes a curated set of diet and nut......more

Really interesting read on the science behind plant based nutrition!!......more

This was a very well-written and succinct book about how our diets have taken shape around the globe. Mackey does not cling to a specific diet dogma, but walks you through what has been learned by many doctors, researchers, scientists, anthropologists and authors, about past behaviors and direct eff......more

I did not find any new information in this book - another exhortation to avoid the standard American diet, to eat mostly unprocessed plant-based foods. The recipes in the second half of the book were underwhelming. Maybe the healthy food - cookbook combo market was less saturated back in 2017 when t......more

Whole Foods founder John Mackey has written a positive, easy to read celebration of the Plant Based Whole Foods lifestyle. Rather than a treatise mired in too much scientific data, or a fear-based anti-meat sentiment (though he does lay out some facts), Mackey takes the high road of encouraging his......more