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ADA Complete Food and Nutrition Guide - In the completely revised and updated ADA Complete Food and Nutrition Guide, you'll find up-to-date, evidence-based, practical answers for your many food and nutrition questions.  This cornerstone guide from the American Dietetic Association, written by nationally recognized food and nutrition expert and registered dietitian Roberta Duyff, covers the basics on nutrition, managing weight, and healthy eating.

Thought for Food: Why What We Eat Matters -  John Potter, an award-winning public health researcher, examines the latest research on what causes cancer and other chronic diseases. What is scientists’ current understanding of the balance between diet, genes and plain bad luck, and how is the balance shifting. 

Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food - acclaimed neuroscientist Rachel Herz examines the sensory, psychological, neuroscientific, and physiological factors that influence our eating habits. 

The Angry Chef: Bad Science and the Truth About Healthy Eating - This book unravels the mystery of why sensible, intelligent people are so easily taken in by the latest food fads, making brief detours for an expletive-laden rant. At the end of it all you’ll have the tools to spot pseudoscience for yourself.

China study : the most comprehensive study of nutrition ever conducted and the startling implications for diet, weight loss and long-term health - More than 30 years ago, nutrition researcher T. Colin Campbell and his team at Cornell, in partnership with teams in China and England, embarked upon the China Study, the most comprehensive study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of developing disease. 

The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat - From an obesity and neuroscience researcher with a knack for engaging, humorous storytelling, this book uses cutting-edge science to answer the questions: why do we overeat, and what can we do about it? 

The Case Against Sugar -  From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening exposé that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick.

Fat Science: Why Diets and Exercise Don’t Work – and What Does - Science tells us that our own efforts – following diets, heading to the gym or taking some new pills – are defeated again and again by our genes.

That Sugar Book: This Book Will Change the Way You Think About 'Healthy' Food - In this book, Damon explains how sugar damages our bodies and our minds, and how easy it is to consume sugar without even knowing it.

The Gluten Lie: And Other Myths About What You Eat - In this groundbreaking work, Alan Levinovitz takes on bestselling physicians and dietitians, exposing the myths behind how we come to believe which foods are good and which are bad—and pointing the way to a truly healthful life, free from anxiety about what we eat.

Healthy eating, active living -  What and how much you eat and drink, and being physically active are important for your health. Being healthy improves your quality of life and your sense of wellbeing. This booklet is based on the Ministry of Health’s Eating and Activity Guidelines for New Zealand Adults.

The Shape We're In: How Junk Food and Diets are Shortening Our Lives - This demonization of the overweight by the media and politicians is unrelenting. Sarah Boseley, the Guardian's award-winning health editor, argues it's time we understood the complex reality of what makes us fat. 

The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet - This book documents how the low-fat nutrition advice of the past sixty years has amounted to a vast uncontrolled experiment on the entire population, with disastrous consequences for our health. 

The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work - This book offers a tested program for breaking down the negative thought patterns that prevent people from losing weight and keeping it off. Through the course of years of research and patient treatment, he has developed a 10-Day Reset that supports losing weight while maintaining a healthy, enjoyable lifestyle. 

The Food Hourglass - The hourglass will show you how to immediately identify what is healthy and unhealthy food, and how to replace unhealthy foods with alternatives. The hourglass helps you lose weight, slow down the ageing process and reduce the risk of age-related diseases. Never before has such a food model been developed.

Diet Cults: The Surprising Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and a Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of Us - From “The Four Hour Body,” to “Atkins,” there are diet cults to match seemingly any mood and personality type. Everywhere we turn, someone is preaching the “One True Way” to eat for maximum health. This book advocates an agnostic, rational approach to eating habits, based on one’s own habits, lifestyle, and genetics/body type.

Foodist: Using Real Food and Real Science to Lose Weight Without Dieting - in this book Darya Pino Rose, a neuroscientist, food writer, and the creator of SummerTomato.com, delivers a savvy, practical guide to ending the diet cycle and discovering lasting weight-loss through the love of food and the fundamentals of science.

Appetite for Destruction: Food the Good, the Bad and the Fatal - We Kiwis are literally eating ourselves to death. In the move from cooking to convenience food we have given up control of what we eat. As a result our food is heavy on sugar, fat and salt, and light on the nutrients our body needs. This is causing a hidden health crisis that will swamp our hospitals just when the baby boomers want their hip operations. 

Addicted to Food -  Obesity has hit epidemic levels. In the developed, and much of the developing world, it is now 'normal' to be overweight with a BMI of 25 or more. And the global population is getting fatter all the time as a powerful mix of cheap foods, social behaviours and commercial pressures drives us to the biscuit tin again and again and again. But this is not the worst of it. 

What to Eat - Nestle takes us through each supermarket section--produce, dairy, meat, fish--she explains the issues, cutting through foodie jargon and complicated nutrition labels, and debunking the misleading health claims made by big food companies.