Interesting and Informative Books on Celiac Disease and Healthy Eating

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If you are looking for books on celiac disease, cooking and healthy eating, this list will give you a good start.

Over the years and in building this site I've read a variety of material. Although there are some books that focus on celiac disease and gluten free foods specifically, I've broadened my reading to include an exploration of the food industry, auto-immune disease, cooking for health and other related material.

Note that none of these books are made with wheat, rye or barley so they are all technically gluten free books ;) I hope you enjoy...

7-Ways

Easy Ideas for Every Day of The Week

Author: Jamie Oliver

The simplicity of the cover of Jamie Oliver's 7 Ways reflects what's in the book, but maybe under-sells it a bit. The recipes are so simple that you don't need to be an experienced cook to make them. And that's Jamie's message. His whole career seems to be about convincing people that even they (we) can make great tasting healthy food. ...read full review

Gut Feelings

The Microbiome and Our Health

Author: Alessio Fasano, Susie Flaherty

Gut Feelings thoroughly covers history and current state of our understanding of and research into the microbiome. In addition to celiac disease, Fasano explores other chronic diseases that are related to and maybe even caused by an "imbalance" of our microbiome...read full review

book cover gut feelings by Dr. Alessio Fasano

All About Dinner

Simple Meals, Expert Advice

Author: Molly Stevens

Do you read cookbooks like you would read a novel? Snuggled into a comfy seat with a warm mug. Taking in the photos, enjoying the prose, tasting the flavors and smelling the smells in your imagination? If you have no idea what I'm talking about, get Molly Stevens' All About Dinner and you'll soon understand...read full review

review all about dinner by molly stevens book cover

30-Minute Low-Carb Dinners

75 Easy-to-Prepare Meals that are Healthy, Delicious and Fast

Author: Valerie Azinge

You know how when you buy a cookbook and it ends up that there is one, maybe two recipes in it that you actually make? This is not that cookbook...read full review

The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook

500 Vibrant, Kitchen-Tested Recipes for Living and Eating Well Every Day

Author: America's Test Kitchen

The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook, from America's Test Kitchen is more than a collection of delicious recipes and beautiful photos. It's an education! ...read full review

Gluten Freedom

The Nation's Leading Expert Offers the Essential Guide to a Healthy, Gluten-Free Lifestyle.

Author: Alessio Fasano, M.D.

with Suzie Flaherty

In Gluten Freedom, world renowned celiac expert Dr. Alessio Fasano presents ground breaking research and practical advice for living with celiac disease...read full review

Metabolical

The Lure and the Lies of Processed Foods, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine

Author: Robert H. Lustig, MD, MSL

Feed the gut, protect the liver. It's ingenious in its simplicity. Throughout this book Dr. Lustig takes us through the science, the politics and the economics...read full review

Becoming Sugar Free:

How To Break Up with Inflammatory Sugars and Embrace a Naturally Sweet Life

Author: Julie Daniluk, R.H.N.

I've been a fan of Julie Daniluk since long before my own celiac diagnosis. In this most recent book Julie shares her own tumultuous relationship with sugar and gives us good, practical advice...read full review

Celiac Disease: A Hidden Epidemic

Author: Dr. Peter H.R. Green and Rory Jones M.S.

Dr. Green is one of the worlds foremost experts on celiac disease yet this book is so accessible and easy to understand. I can't think of a question you might have about celiac disease that isn't covered in this book. read full review

book cover: Celiac Disease A Hidden Epidemic by Dr. Peter Green and Rory Jones.

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

Author: Michael Pollan

“At a certain point in the middle of my life I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook" - Michael Pollan. This is an exploration of the four ancient elements of fire, water, air and earth, and how humans have harnessed them to transform our food, our culture and our bodies...read full review

Food, Genes and Culture: Eating Right for Your Origins

Author: Paul Nabhan

I am intrigued by the notion of ancestral diets and genetic differences among populations perhaps partly because celiac disease is genetic and seems to afflict populations that didn't consume wheat until more recently in evolutionary time. read full review

Cover of the book Food Genes and Culture by Paul Nabhan

A Hunter Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century

Authors: Heather Heying and Brett Weinstein

The book isn’t just about food specifically, it’s about us as a species and how we’ve come such a long way from the forests of our ancestors into today’s high tech world of social media, processed food-like substances, hook-up culture and helicopter parenting... read full review

An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Auto-Immune Diseases

Author: Moses Velasquez-Manoff

This book is fascinating!

And I think in many ways it will prove to be cutting edge.

If you’ve been keeping up with recent news in the medical world, you may have heard the term “micro biome”. ..full review

Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Intestinal Health through Diet

Author: Elaine Gloria Gottschall, B.A, MSc

The premise of the book is that many intestinal diseases: Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Crohn’s Disease, Colitis, and of course Celiac Disease, are all manifestations of the body’s inability to process complex sugars... full review

Eating Animals

Author: Jonathan Safran Foer

A stellar piece of investigative journalism, Foer takes it one step further than anything else I’ve read or seen on the subject of factory farming... full review

Folk Medicine: A New England Almanac of Natural Health from a Noted Vermont Country Doctor

Author: D.C Jarvis, M.D.

This is where it all began, for me anyway. My commitment to the concept that the natural world and the food we eat hold the key to our health... full review

In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto

Author: Michael Pollan

No one writes more eloquently or compellingly about food than Michael Pollan. This book is not specifically for celiacs or anyone on a gluten free diet, it’s for anyone who eats...full review

Mayo Clinic: Going Gluten Free

Author: Joseph A. Murray, M.D.

What I really love is that Dr. Murray has been in this from very early on, from before gluten was a household and much misunderstood word. He studied at the National University of Ireland in Galway, a town in the west of Ireland more...

Meals That Heal Inflammation

Author: Julie Daniluk

Everything from common sense nutritional advice that cuts through the latest fads and focuses on real science to recipes and meal plans that make eating healthy nothing short of fun and delicious...full review

The G-Free Diet: A Gluten Free Survival Guide

Author: Elisabeth Hasselbeck

Elisabeth Hasselbeck of The View shares her personal story of unexplained illness, to diagnosis, to how she manages all of the day to day challenges of life with celiac disease...full review

The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Author: Michael Pollan

Not specifically about gluten in any way, but a pure and poignant exposé on our food system and how corn came to take over the world... full review

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health

Author: William Davis M.D>

Davis makes the case, supported by extensive studies and his own clinical practice that everyone should give up wheat because everyone to some degree is intolerant...full review