On the back of my Tim Spector book review request....Nominations please for best go to nutritional reference book

[TiggerMe]

I think I need to change my request to ask for people's nominations for most informative nutritional guide without any spin... just facts which I can tailor to my specific requirements?

I'd like a go to resource to refer back to as I just can't remember everything 🤯 but nothing too scientific please 🙏

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These are all plant based books but:

Idiots guide to plant based nutrition

Vegan savvy

Simple Happy Kitchen

[DippyDame]

McCance and Widdowson's The Composition of Food. compiled by the Institute of Food Research

[helvella Administrator in reply to DippyDame]

McCance and Widdowson’s Composition of foods integrated dataset (CoFID)

McCance and Widdowson’s 'composition of foods integrated dataset' on the nutrient content of the UK food supply.

McCance and Widdowson’s The Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset 2021

McCance and Widdowson’s The Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset 2021: user guide

McCance and Widdowson's composition of foods integrated dataset

McCance and Widdowson's composition of foods: old foods

The link includes the user guide, and two spreadsheets – the main data and an “old foods” supplement. They require you to have some sort of spreadsheet software such as Excel or Mac Numbers, installed.

gov.uk/government/publicati...

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to helvella]

DippyDame This is excellent both 🤗

It will also push me to become more spreadsheet savvy too, thank you thank you 🙏

[DippyDame]

A good book.

Paperback from Amazon...but about £50 I'm afraid

I had an early version of this book about 60 years ago.....alas, a great deal of the content is now lost in the mists of time!!

No idea what happened to my copy but it would be well out of date by now anyway!

Foods

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to DippyDame]

Interestingly, previous editions were available at the library (I could buy an old copy) but not this one? They are stocking the Tim Spector book...

[DippyDame in reply to TiggerMe]

Happy reading!

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to DippyDame]

Should keep me quiet for a while and then I'll start with the questions 😉

[DippyDame]

Or this, based on the above ....also good and an easier read.

Book

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to DippyDame]

Someone's review of this was that the earlier copy they had bought years ago was better as it didn't include the junk foods in the newer edition 😆

[DippyDame in reply to TiggerMe]

Check Abe books....my copy of the Manual is falling apart

[humanbean]

I avoid buying books as far as possible, so this reply is mostly links :

selfhacked.com/healthy-living/

lowcarbusa.org/papers/

lowcarbusa.org/articles/

youtube.com/user/lowcarbdow...

greekgoesketo.com/

youtube.com/c/KetoConnect/v...

This is a useful reference book, but it is getting old and creaky now. The references are old too. I would always double check the author's conclusions on anything and everything. It contained info on some potentially useful supplements that I had never heard of before. If it interests you I'd suggest buying a second-hand one.

smile.amazon.co.uk/Essentia...

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to humanbean]

Excellent, thank you 🙏

[Judithdalston]

Spectre’s last book Spoonfed, can be bought as secondhand paperback….a good thought provoking read, and it is likely to change the way you eat!

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to Judithdalston]

😉 I'm adding what I can to my library request list and then buying others second hand where possible.... I need to re-educate as everything about my diet has drastically changed in the last 18 months, feeling well now but don't want to miss out some vital things with the new regime 🤗

[userotc]

anhinternational.org/campai...

[Serendipitious]

I would go with the latest books because nutrition research is rapidly evolving and you’ll find possibly conflicting and outdated information in older books.

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to Serendipitious]

Fair point, and the vit/min content is dropping in most whole foods...I just don't want a book that tells me all about processed food as I don't touch it, I'm keen to learn about unadulterated ingredients

The population seemed far healthier when rationing was in force 🙄 all gone downhill since then it seems.

Keen to just have simple and nourishing... I think the Amish have a much better relationship with food... perhaps I should look into that 😉

[Serendipitious in reply to TiggerMe]

Are you after a university textbook or something aimed more at the consumer?

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to Serendipitious]

Straight nutritional fact, wholefoods and interaction rather than spin or recipe nutrition? But not too intense highbrow (I've not been to Uni so guessing that could go beyond my depth) I've got a few requests in with the library to find my level, though quite a limited range

[Serendipitious in reply to TiggerMe]

I like these books:

amazon.co.uk/Advanced-Nutri...

amazon.co.uk/Nutrition-Main...

This is focused on a functional medicine perspective in case you're interested:

onlineshop.oxfam.org.uk/the...

They are expensive however you may be able to find them online 😉

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to Serendipitious]

Brilliant 🙏 thank you 🤗