This book is great for folks who, like me, are beginners in delving into nutrition science and feel overwhelmed! The authors do a great job of explaining a lot of the research that goes into not only the whole foods diet, but nutrition as a whole. I learned quite a bit, and I'm thinking about buying the book to annotate (I read it via my library this first time).

There are two reasons it's not a 5-star read for me: in parts, it did sound like it was an ad for Whole Foods. With one of the co-authors being the CEO for Whole Foods, I probably should have expected it, but still.

The second reason being that, during the chapter on ethics and other reasons for eating plant-based, as he talks about how wasteful and horrible factory farming is (and rightfully so), nowhere does the CEO say anything about the more ethical ways to consume meat, more specifically how indigenous folks have been consuming it for hundreds of years. He mentioned how eating organic, grass-fed, whatever meat is better than factory-farmed, but I find it lacking that he didn't even speak word-one on how different indigenous populations have been ethically eating meat and seafood for so long, in a way that is worlds' better than factory farming.

However, like I said before, there is a wealth of information included in this book, which makes it great for anyone curious about the whole foods diet.