Best Vegan Nutrition Books

Registered dietician Azmina Govindji provides a lot of valuable information in her book Vegan Savvy, which drives home the importance of a well-rounded plant-based diet.

She addresses the health pitfalls that many new and seasoned vegans can encounter and how to avoid them. This book is a great way to learn how to make sticking to a vegan diet easier without compromising your health.

This is one of the most popular plant based eating books among vegans, and for good reason. Dr. Michael Greger is a medical doctor with extensive knowledge of nutrition.

This book is a bit of a kick in the pants to motivate you to eat a healthy plant-based diet. It’s sectioned off into 15 chapters that each individually addresses the main causes of premature deaths in the United States.

Dr. Greger uses scientific studies throughout this book to support his claims and explain how to prevent or reverse common diseases through a healthy plant based diet. He also gives his “Daily Dozen” in this book, which are the 12 foods he thinks we should all eat daily.

Another one of the best books on becoming vegan by Dr. Greger, this book can teach you how to lose weight healthily through a plant-based diet full of whole foods.

This book teaches the reader about how the foods we eat impact our gut microbiome. It talks about the insulin index and calorie density, too. Similar to his book How Not to Die, Dr. Greger uses scientific studies to back up the advice he gives for healthy plant-based weight loss.

In this vegan nutrition book, this father and son doctor duo addresses the findings from the most thorough study ever to have been conducted on how diet can be related to developing diseases.

The study was started in the 1980s by Cornell University, the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, and the University of Oxford. It looked at how people in different regions in China who ate different diets fared as they aged.

This book summarizes the findings of the study, which showed that eating animal protein came with a risk of developing several diseases, and that plant-based diets come with multiple health benefits.

The same doctor who co-wrote The China Study also wrote this book, which delves deeper into current science and what it says about whole food and plant-based diets.

Dr. Campbell goes into the evidence behind plant-based diets and also discusses why Western societies tend to resist this healthy diet despite the abundance of proof.

This is a great starter book for anyone looking to learn more about the benefits of plant-based diets. It also gives a lot of insight into what goes on behind the scenes of the food industry in America.

In this book written by two registered dieticians, you can learn a ton of information about the health benefits of plant-based diets.

This book starts by giving you a good understanding of animal agriculture and the environmental impacts of eating meat before it dives into the negative health effects of meat-heavy diets. You’ll also learn how to easily fill up on all your nutrients, including protein and calcium, without animal products.

This book is unique because it offers nutritional guidelines based on age groups and even explains how to eat a healthy plant-based diet when you’re breastfeeding or pregnant.

This plant based dietician and scientist duo teamed up to create this thorough book on all the science-backed benefits of eating plant-based diets. It’s great for anyone interested in learning more about macronutrients, vitamins, and how to categorize vegan foods properly.

As a bonus, the authors talk about how to healthily build a diet and exercise routine for every age group, and they touch on how to healthily lose weight on a plant-based diet.

This book lays out the famous starch-based diet created by Dr. McDougall that focuses on starches. That means you can load up on potatoes, wheat, rice, and corn!

Dr. McDougall makes points about how several healthy societies around the world have maintained trim waists and healthy lives with starches as their primary source of calories. He also recommends strictly avoiding animal products.

This book is great for anyone looking for a unique perspective on plant-based weight loss.

Another great resource for losing weight sustainably and healthily on a plant-based diet, Eat to Live is a vegan diet book that lays out a six-week plan that focuses on nutrient density instead of calories.

Note that this isn’t a fully vegan diet plan book. Dr. Fuhrman states he believes it’s fine to include animal products in your diet as long as they make up less than 5% of your diet. You can choose not to include any animal products and still benefit from this book.

Co-written by the co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods with the help of two medical doctors, this book offers a ton of information on the benefits of eating a whole-food, plant-based diet with minimal animal products.

This book has a helpful section that talks about how to make some healthy plant-based meals, which makes it a great place to start for vegan newbies.

The same doctors who worked to create a book with the CEO of Whole Foods also worked on this meal plan based on helping the patients seen in the Forks Over Knives documentary.

Forks Over Knives helped bring the benefits of a plant-based diet to the mainstream and the information in this meal plan is great for learning about how to transition to a healthy vegan diet. It also includes a four-week meal plan to get you started.