The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet by Nina Teicholz, is an eye opening modern history about how everything we have believed about fat is wrong, and all the politics and poorly conducted science that has made us believe that fat is bad.

Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health by Ken D. Berry, MD is a fascinating book. It outlines many medical...