📚 Nutrition

What food actually does inside the body — vitamins, calories and metabolism, and the difference between a diet that works and one that only sells.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject nutrition in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The care and feeding of children	Holt, L. Emmett	1894	72
	Contemporary Nutrition	Gordon M. Wardlaw	1992	58
	Understanding Nutrition	Eleanor Noss Whitney	1977	52
	Nutrition	Lori A. Smolin	1994	45
	Nutrition & you : core concepts for good health	Joan Salge Blake	2007	43
	The science of nutrition	Janice Thompson	2007	35
	Nutrition	Lori A. Smolin	2004	33
	Nutrition	Frances Sizer Webb	1994	30
	Omnivore's Dilemma. A Natural History of Four Meals	Michael Pollan	2006	28
	Food values of portions commonly used	Anna De Planter Bowes	1939	25
	Prescription for nutritional healing	James F. Balch	1990	25
	Nutrition	Mary B. Grosvenor	2001	24
	Feed me! I'm yours	Vicki Lansky	1974	23
	Advanced nutrition	Carolyn D. Berdanier	1995	22
	Nutrition	Janice Thompson	2005	22
	Let's cook it right.	Adelle Davis	1947	21
	Let's eat right to keep fit	Adelle Davis	1954	20
	How to live 365 days a year	John A. Schindler	1954	20
	Nutrition	Joan Salge Blake	2009	20
	Nutrition and physical fitness	Lotta Jean Bogert	1931	19
	Visualizing nutrition	Mary B. Grosvenor	2010	19
	Food rules	Michael Pollan	2009	18
	Nutrition and physical degeneration	Weston A. Price	1938	15
	Nutrition, health, and safety for young children	Joanne Sorte	2010	14
	Introduction to Nutrition and Metabolism	David A. Bender	1997	13
	Fast Food Facts	Marion J. Franz	1984	12
	Nutrition for dummies	Carol Ann Rinzler	2007	12
	Nutrition and diet therapy	Williams, Sue Rodwell.	1969	10
	Nutrition through the life cycle	Judith E. Brown	2004	10
	Nutritional sciences	Michelle McGuire	2006	10

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 07 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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