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Food Intelligence - By  Julia Belluz and Kevin Hall, PhD

Food Intelligence - By Julia Belluz and Kevin Hall, PhD

$ 30.00
Book cover typeHardcover
*On Sale Date - September 23, 2025

Food Intelligence:
The Science of How Food Both Nourishes and Harms Us

By Julia Belluz and Kevin Hall, PhD 

Publisher: Avery (2025) 

ISBN-13: 9780593332306

Pages: 320

Genre(s): Health & Wellness, Healthy Living, Diet & Nutrition, Food & Home

About the Book

The essential guide for understanding what you’re eating, and the forces that are driving you to eat it.

Nutrition isn’t rocket science; it’s harder.

There are new diet fads, bold claims about superfoods and articles promising the secrets to lasting weight-loss and longevity. The more advice we hear about diet, the less clarity we have about what to eat.

In Food Intelligence, award-winning health journalist, Julia Belluz, and leading nutritional scientist, Kevin Hall, cut through the myths about nutrition to deliver the definitive book on food, diet, metabolism and healthy eating.

Breaking food down into its constituent parts, they reveal the science behind how protein, fat, carbs and vitamins impact our bodies. They shine a light on the wonders of metabolism, and debunk the latest ‘theories’ about blood sugar trackers and ultra-processed foods. They reveal the ways that the world around us – our food environment – shapes our eating behaviors and the food choices we make every day. Diseases like obesity and diabetes are not a result of a failure of will power; they are consequences of food systems working as designed. 

Humane, deeply reported, frequently humorous, this journey into the science of what we eat will equip you with the food intelligence you need to better understand what’s on your dinner plate and how it got there.

6 "(W) x 9 "(H)
18 Oz

Kevin Hall, PhD

Kevin Hall, PhD is an internationally recognized expert in nutrition, metabolism, and obesity research. A physicist by training, he is tenured Senior Investigator at the National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD. Hall has twice received the Director’s Award from both the NIH and the NIDDK and has also received the E.V. McCullum Award from the American Society for Nutrition, the Lilly Scientific Achievement Award from The Obesity Society, and the Guyton Award for Excellence in Integrative Physiology from the American Society of Physiology.

Julia Belluz

Julia Belluz is a health journalist at Vox who focuses on translating medical research and scientists’ big ideas into clear and precise language. She has worked on Netflix, podcasts, SnapChat, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, and has been published widely on the subject of health science, in the Economist, ProPublica, Los Angeles Times, Slate, British Medical Journal, Maclean’s, the Globe and Mail, and the National Post. Belluz was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She presents at health science and journalism forums around the world, actively training the next generation of journalists and communicators.


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Food Intelligence - By Julia Belluz and Kevin Hall, PhD

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