Food Intelligence

The Science of How Food Both Nourishes and Harms Us

De: Julia Belluz, Kevin Hall PhD

Narrado por: Barrie Kreinik

“Food Intelligence dispels many popular myths we have about weight loss and breaks down the real drivers of the obesity crisis based on decades of research. I really hope everyone gets a chance to read this book."—Sanjay Gupta, MD, Chief Medical Correspondent at CNN and host of Chasing Life

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 ‘expert’ advice we hear about diet, the less clarity we have about what to eat.

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

Breaking food down into its constituent parts, Food Intelligence reveals:

• The real science behind how protein, fat, carbs and vitamins impact our bodies
• The wonders of metabolism
• The latest ‘theories’ about blood sugar trackers and ultra-processed foods
• How our food environment shapes our eating behaviors and the food choices we make every day
• How diseases like obesity and type 2 diabetes are not a result of a failure of will power; they are consequences of food systems working as designed

Humane and deeply reported, 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, how it got there, and why you eat it.

©2025 Julia Belluz and Kevin Hall, PhD (P)2025 Penguin Audio

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“A must-read breath of sanity, written with great expertise that can improve the health of all of us.”—David Kessler, MD, author of the New York Times bestseller Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine

“If you are going to read one book about nutrition and health, then make it this one. Food Intelligence is so insightful, so beautifully researched, so fascinating in the telling, that you will finish it—as I did—feeling smarter about what you eat and about yourself as well.”—Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Poison Squad

“If there were ever two people to turn to understand the complexities of our diet, metabolism, and nutrition—and their role in promoting our health—it would be the noted science journalist Julia Belluz and leading nutritional scientist Kevin Hall. Their landmark book Food Intelligence will make us all smarter about what we eat.”—Eric Topol, MD, author of the New York Times bestseller Super Agers

Best book since The Omnivore’s Dilemma

I have been following the subject of human nutrition for 20 years. I’ve read most of the mainstream books. I’ve read from the vegan community and the keto community. I’ve seen so much of the literature. This book was an amazing distillation of dietary history, the diet wars, public health policy, trends, food science, and more.

While I do think it imposes a little too heavily the notion that the food environment is responsible for our public health crisis, potentially leaving the reader with increased justification to externalize their circumstances, they do acknowledge at the end that we cannot ascribe everything to environment.

Telling readers too strongly that it’s OK, it’s the environment, is ultimately disempowering. There are too many examples of people who do successfully alter their environment and get the health outcomes they are seeking.