It Starts With Food

Title: It Starts With Food

Author: Dallas & Melissa Hartwig

Reviewer: Maria Ryan

Solid, No Fault Nutrition

It Starts with Food offers basic, cutting edge nutritional science coupled with a good dose of eating psychology. It is full of great information that you will reference many times over so you may want to own this one. For anyone about to embark on a Whole 30, I strongly recommend reading either this book or The Whole 30 first.

After two Whole 30’s attempted solely by culling a lot of information from the website and forums, I see the value of reading the book first in hindsight. Yes, I was able to cobble together the gist of the program but I was not nearly as successful as I could have been.

It Starts with Food covers pretty much everything and anything you can and cannot anticipate on the program all in one convenient place. There is information that overlaps both books and if you read them both, you will read some information twice but that only serves to reinforce the lesson, a plus.

It Starts with Food will give you the reason behind the food and why certain foods that may seem healthy are actually anything but. The authors have nailed it with facts that are backed up by not only the (not rocket) science but also by field experts. I definitely got the sense that “it takes a village” delivered.

BRB Rating: Own It