Food Intelligence (CHES)

This course is only for CHES professionals.

“Nutrition isn’t rocket science; it’s harder.”  Excellent book on the science behind how nutrients impact our bodies and brain. It covers how our food environment and ultra-processed foods shape our eating behaviors and the food choices we make. 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. 

The authors explore the wonders of metabolism and the theories about blood sugar trackers and ultra-processed foods. 

Program I.D. # SS114228_FI2025 – CHES 13.5 Hours / 6 MCHES Hours

Quotes:

Food Intelligence breaks down the real drivers of the obesity crisis based on decades of research. – Sanjay Gupta, MD

It's funny, scholarly, and extremely important. Full of piercing observations, it ruthlessly cuts a path through the wilderness of nutritional nonsense that we have been lost in for so long. It is the first and last book anyone really needs to read on this subject. – Christoffer  van Tulleken, MD, PhD, author of Ultra-Processed People

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 you want to understand how nutrition became so contentious and why we are still arguing about whether it’s better to eat more or less fat, carbohydrates, protein, or vitamins, you must read Food Intelligence. Well-written, historically accurate, and scientifically rigorous, this book brings you up to the moment on contemporary dietary issues. – Marion Nestle, PhD, NYU professor and author of What to Eat Now