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The 20 books.
Every module on this site is drawn from a fixed corpus of 20 books: four academic nutrition textbooks that form the clinical spine, and sixteen popular nonfiction titles that supply political, industrial, and historical context. Modules cite which book backs which claim. Glossary entries show how each textbook covers a term side by side.
Textbooks · 4
2017 · Textbook · 5th edition
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Complete Food and Nutrition Guide
Roberta Larson Duyff · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt · ISBN 9780544520585
The consumer-facing dietetics standard. Source for label-reading, life-stage practical advice, and food-safety material.
2021 · Textbook · 8th edition
Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism
Sareen S. Gropper et al. · Cengage · ISBN 9780357449814
Cellular-level biochemistry of digestion, absorption, and metabolism. Underpins the 'Inside your cells' module.
2021 · Textbook · 16th edition
Krause and Mahan's Food & the Nutrition Care Process
Janice L. Raymond and Kelly Morrow · Elsevier · ISBN 9780323636551
The clinical-dietetics standard. Backbone for the deep-dive clinical nutrition module and most ingredient mechanism-of-concern entries.
2020 · Textbook · 12th edition
Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease
Catharine Ross et al. · Wolters Kluwer · ISBN 9781975161033
The advanced-nutrition reference. Source for biochemistry-heavy claims on macronutrients, micronutrients, and life-stage requirements.
Trade nonfiction · 16
2009 · Trade nonfiction
The End of Overeating
Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite
David A. Kessler · Rodale Books · ISBN 9781605297859
Former FDA commissioner on hyperpalatable food, conditioned hypereating, and chain-restaurant engineering.
2021 · Trade nonfiction
Metabolical
The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine
Robert H. Lustig · Harper Wave · ISBN 9780063027718
Source for the eight cellular pathologies of metabolic disease, the fructose-as-ethanol thesis, and the metabolic-syndrome framing.
2024 · Trade nonfiction
Good Energy
The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health
Casey Means and Calley Means · Avery · ISBN 9780593713419
Mitochondrial and metabolic-health framing. Source for the bio-observability theme and the cellular-health through-line.
2013 · Trade nonfiction
Salt Sugar Fat
How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Michael Moss · Random House · ISBN 9780812982190
Investigative source for industry engineering, the bliss point, and the Philip Morris / Kraft tobacco lineage.
2021 · Trade nonfiction
Hooked
Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions
Michael Moss · Random House · ISBN 9780812997293
Follow-up to Salt Sugar Fat focused on brain reward, food addiction, and the tobacco playbook applied to food.
2013 · Trade nonfiction · Revised 10th-anniversary edition
Food Politics
How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
Marion Nestle · University of California Press · ISBN 9780520275966
Authoritative account of USDA conflicts, checkoff programs, lobbying, and the politics of the Dietary Guidelines.
2025 · Trade nonfiction · 2025 edition
What to Eat Now
An Aisle-by-Aisle Guide to Savvy Food Choices and Good Eating
Marion Nestle · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Updated guide to the modern grocery store. Source for current label tricks, certification schemes, and the 'reading labels' module.
2008 · Trade nonfiction
In Defense of Food
An Eater's Manifesto
Michael Pollan · Penguin Press · ISBN 9781594201455
The nutritionism critique. Anchor for the 'real food vs. edible foodlike substance' module.
2009 · Trade nonfiction
Food Rules
An Eater's Manual
Michael Pollan · Penguin Books · ISBN 9780143116387
64 short rules distilling Pollan's eating philosophy. Source for many counterintuitive-truth marketing assets.
2015 · Trade nonfiction
The Dorito Effect
The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor
Mark Schatzker · Simon & Schuster · ISBN 9781476724232
How synthetic flavor decoupled taste from nutrition. Reference for the 'how food gets engineered' module.
2020 · Trade nonfiction
Spoon-Fed
Why Almost Everything We've Been Told About Food Is Wrong
Tim Spector · Jonathan Cape · ISBN 9781787332294
Debunks individual-nutrient myths and introduces the PREDICT-trial individual-variability evidence. Source for the 'you're not average' module.
2016 · Trade nonfiction
The Case Against Sugar
Gary Taubes · Knopf · ISBN 9780307701640
Historical and biochemical case that added sugar is the primary driver of metabolic disease. Source for the Sugar Research Foundation episode and Reaven-era history.
2020 · Trade nonfiction · 4th edition
Intuitive Eating
A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach
Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch · St. Martin's Essentials · ISBN 9781250255198
The 10-principle anti-diet framework. Source for the 'hunger-fullness no-shame default' beginner module and the eating-disorder deep dive.
2023 · Trade nonfiction
Ultra-Processed People
The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
Chris van Tulleken · W. W. Norton · ISBN 9780393881196
Lead reference for the ultra-processed-food modules, NOVA-4 framing, and the political-economy critique of the food industry.
2017 · Trade nonfiction · Revised edition
Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy
The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating
Walter C. Willett and P. J. Skerrett · Free Press · ISBN 9781501164774
Harvard's evidence-based corrective to the 1990s Food Pyramid. Source for Nurses' Health Study findings and the PREDIMED-era evidence base.
2009 · Trade nonfiction · 7th edition
A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives
Ruth Winter · Three Rivers Press · ISBN 9780307408921
Primary spine for the 940-entry additive glossary. Concern levels, regulatory status, and 'where you'll see it' fields are seeded from Winter.
How citations work on this site
Each module ends with a numbered Sourcesblock keyed to the books above (and to peer-reviewed papers where relevant). Each glossary entry lists, side by side, what every textbook in the corpus says about the term. Quotes appear in quotation marks with attribution; everything else is paraphrase. If you find a claim that doesn't match the source, email support@getgoodenough.com and we'll fix it.