Welcome to Red Pen Reviews!
We created Red Pen Reviews to help people like you evaluate the information quality of the health and nutrition books you read or are thinking about buying. Ultimately, our goal is to change the incentive structure of the publishing industry by forging a link between a book’s accuracy and its popularity. We intend to become […]
Response to the social media storm over our review of Metabolical
I woke up to a tempest in a teapot on Sunday. Two days prior, we had published a review of the book Metabolical. Sunday morning UK time, the primary reviewer Sam Dicken published a thread on X summarizing the review. Six hours later, carnivore diet advocate Shawn Baker reposted one of Sam’s posts with the following comment: These are the people […]
The Good Gut
Taking Control of your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-term Health
Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy
Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy By Walter Willett, MD, DrPH, is a book that aims to give the kind of general nutritional advice to society that he wishes the US Government had given in its Dietary Guidelines for Americans. It intends to reduce the risk of common health conditions such as cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes via a diet that is low in animal fats, red meat, and refined carbohydrate, and enriched in plant fats, whole grains, vegetables and fruit, poultry, fish, and eggs.
The Ultimate Volumetrics Diet
Smart, Simple, Science-Based Strategies for Losing Weight and Keeping It Off
The Salt Fix
Why the Experts Got It All Wrong–and How Eating More Might Save Your Life
The Pegan Diet
21 Practical Principles for Reclaiming Your Health in a Nutritionally Confusing World
The Proof is in the Plants
How science shows a plant-based diet could save your life
Why We Get Sick
The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease–and How to Fight It
Anti-Diet
Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating