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2023 Books in Review

Good Health Reads: Books We Loved in 2023

WholeFoods Magazine editors share a few of the books that left them educated and inspired this year.

December 29, 2023

Check out some of the natural health and integrative medicine books WholeFoods Magazine editors enjoyed reading this year.

The Business of Botanicals

July 25, 2023

Ann Armbrecht

This excerpt adapted from The Business of Botanicals: Exploring the Healing Promise of Plant Medicines in a Global Industry by Ann Armbrecht.

Good Health Reads: Eat Happy Kitchen, Anna Vocino

With so many health-transforming books being released, WholeFoods Magazine wanted to know what the experts are reading.

February 27, 2023

Anna Vocino

With so many health-transforming books being released, WholeFoods Magazine wanted to know what the experts are reading. Here, Anna Vocino, author of Eat Happy & Eat Happy Too, shares her favorites.

Good Health Reads—Niacin: The Real Story

January 23, 2023

Robert G. Smith, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Niacin: The Real Story, 2nd Edition, by Abram Hoffer, Andrew W. Saul, and Harry D. Foster (Turner Publishing, 2023) Niacin (vitamin B3) is a biomolecule required by all forms of life. It functions as a precursor to NAD, an enzymatic co-factor in hundreds of metabolic pathways. Niacin is called a...

Good Health Reads: Everyday Vegan, Amy Lanza

January 17, 2023

WholeFoods Magazine Staff

Wellness is such a loaded word, and one that will take on different meanings depending on who you ask. With the boom of the wellbeing industry in the last few years, finding a personal connection to our own wellbeing has often become muddied: a toss-up between superfood powders, the latest...

Good-Health Reads: Keto Dieting, Thom King

December 16, 2022

Thom King

As a self-professed foodie and health nut, food has always been a passion for me. I started my company, Icon Foods, in 1999 to help manufacturers bring clean, healthy foods and beverages to the global market. We work with growers around the world to source natural ingredients, especially sweeteners, with...

Good-Health Reads: Organic Farming, Angela Tedesco

August 12, 2022

Angela Tedesco

[caption id="attachment_91644" align="alignleft" width="239"] Angela Tedesco, author of Finding Turtle Farm, shares the books that have inspired her.[/caption] When I started farming in the 1990s, the local food system resurgence was just beginning. One of the first resources I found enlightening and inspiring was Gary Paul Nabhan’s book Coming Home...

Good-Health Reads: Food-as-Medicine Chef June Pagan

May 20, 2022

June Pagan

Are you eager to reduce your risk for disease by reducing inflammation in your body? A silver lining of this terrible COVID-19 pandemic is that more people are aware and even more are interested in adopting an anti-inflammatory way of eating, so as to not only boost their resistance, or...

Good-Health Reads: Elizabeth Hemphill-Burns, KeHE

November 15, 2021

Elizabeth Hemphill-Burns

The Heart of Business by Hubert Joly This book is a great resource for anyone who aims to become a better leader. The central theme is that organizations are kept alive by their people. We are encouraged to become more aware of what drives us as employees and leaders, and...

Good-Health Reads: Dana Ellis Hunnes

October 18, 2021

Dana Ellis Hunnes

I am someone who enjoys living a healthy and sustainable lifestyle by eating a whole foods, plant-based, sustainable diet. I am also someone who works with individuals every day, helping them live their healthiest and most sustainable lifestyle as a Registered Dietitian at a major medical center in Los Angeles. ...