It has been 3 months since I started dieting, and exercising on a regular basis as a plan to become a more healthy person. I have lost 20 pounds by now, and have gained some insight about how nutrition works by reading the hackers diet and articles over the Internet, however, I dont seem to get the full picture about how the whole process works, and would love to hear recommendations about some books that would help me understand about how metabolism, fats, carbohydrates, and everything else that is involved in nutrition operates.
Don't worry, no one gets the full picture about how the whole process works. Gary Taubes' "Good Calories, Bad Calories" (2007) summarizes some open questions from a hundred years of nutrition research.
I liked "Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever" by Ray Kurzweil. Arthur De Vany's evolutionary fitness essay is also very good:
www.arthurdevany.com/webstuff/RevisedEssay.pdf
Go to www.t-nation.com and read all their diet and nutrition articles. Chris Shugart et al write from personal experience, and they've got the results to prove their ideas work.
