I used to be the person who read one thing and believed it was true forever. Like, I read somewhere that carbs were bad, and I just accepted it as fact. Then I read somewhere else that carbs were fine and fat was bad, and I'd swing the other direction. I was operating on these weird fragments of information that I'd picked up from magazines or random internet articles, and I had no actual framework for understanding health.
Then I started actually reading books about health and nutrition. Not just skimming headlines or watching TikToks. Actually reading books cover to cover. And something shifted. I started to see patterns. I started to understand why certain approaches work for certain people and why nutrition isn't as simple as "just eat this" or "just avoid that."
The books I'm going to talk about aren't all diet books. They're books about how to think about food, how to build habits, and how to actually evaluate whether what you're reading is true or just marketing. They changed how I make decisions about my health, and more importantly, they changed how I feel about those decisions.
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