11 books for a healthy lifestyle and self-development - to strengthen health and find harmony

Improve health and find harmony. Begin to love your body not from the New Year, but from the moment of reading any of these books. Your body is the only thing that 100% belongs to you, the most precious thing you have. Everything else is derivative. So it’s time to love yourself and take care of yourself.

Slava Baransky, editor-in-chief of Lifehacker

1. Salt, sugar and fat. Michael Moss No. 1 on the New York Times list
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Have you come up with a New Year's menu yet? Take your time shopping for groceries: read the best-selling Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Moss first.

This book can change all ideas about food. Using the examples of Coca-Cola, Frito-Lay, Nestle, Kraft and many others, the author shows how specialists in the laboratories of food giants find the “point of bliss” – the perfect combination of ingredients to create the taste of products and impose harmful food on us. It's time to figure out what you're buying.

2. Ayurveda. Thomas Yarema, Daniel Roda and Johnny Brannigan Do you know why this book is the best gift? Because it will help fulfill one of the most important New Year's wishes - to be healthy. Ayurveda is the oldest system of healthy eating. It will help you choose products that are suitable for you, based on what your body structure is. In addition to the theory in Ayurveda, you will find 150 useful recipes that will help you feel better.

3. Food and brain. David Perlmutter.
On holidays, the least you want to think about the harm or benefits of products from our table. And that's a big mistake. After all, what we eat directly depends on the work of the most valuable – our brain.

The author of the book - the famous neurologist David Perlmutter over the years of practice established this connection. He is sure that memory problems, stress, insomnia and poor mood are treated by refusing certain foods. The tips from this book will help you maintain good health and sharpness of mind until old age.

4. The science of sleep. David Randall
How well did you sleep last night? Unfortunately, 40% of people answer this question “Not very well.” And they don't see it as a problem. No way. We spend almost a third of our lives sleeping. In addition, it has long been known that our abilities are the result of the processes that occur every night in our head while it rests peacefully on a pillow.

David Randall conducted a real “sleep study” and told how sleep affects our lives. His book is an excursion into the most mysterious sphere of human life and the whole truth about sleep.

5. Doubt. Glory to Baransky
The end of the year and the beginning of the next is the best time to rethink your habits. Have you spent too much time on social media? Have you been able to communicate with loved ones in real life? How often have you been to fast food restaurants?

The editor-in-chief of Lifehacker Slava Baransky asks the most pressing questions. His "Doubt" is a manifesto for anyone who wants to become more conscious and come out of the crowd. In the New Year, with a real view of the world.

6. Caffeine. Murray Carpenter Another eternal question that has often been asked for the last hundred years is: is coffee harmful? Do you want a clear answer to this question? New York Times journalist Murray Carpenter has collected all the possible research of scientists about coffee under one cover and is ready to share with us the whole truth. I recommend this book to all coffee fans! For them, it just has to be read.

7. Eat right, run fast. Scott Jurek and Steve Friedman
Admit how many times in your life (and perhaps on New Year’s Eve) you have given yourself a word: “Everything, on Monday I start running!” How's it going?

Scott Jurek is not waiting for Monday. He just goes out and runs. And, by the way, not a few kilometers, but 266 kilometers in 24 hours! He is a supermarathoner and a record holder in daily running. In the book, Scott talks about how he came to the sport. Gives advice on running techniques. And nutrition recommendations. It's a solid and strong book. A book about the way to yourself. Get up on January 1st in the morning and run!

8. Age of happiness. Michael Moss
Let’s celebrate every day in the New Year. The mistake many of us make is that we don’t appreciate the moment. And the older we get, the harder it is for us to enjoy life. This book helps you see the world differently. Here are amazing stories of people who proved by their own example that happiness and success do not depend on age. On the contrary, after 50 comes the brightest and most fruitful time.

This book is an indispensable addition to the New Year wish for happiness. It energizes, inspires and delights. Everyone. And at any age. You can't pack and wrap happiness. But you can get a book. Parents. Myself.

9. Good food. Colin Campbell.
To be happy, you have to be healthy. That is why we all try to lead a healthy lifestyle and eat right. But here's the catch - few people know what "proper nutrition" is. What most of us consider healthy is actually detrimental to humans—we eat what kills us by following the myths of healthy eating.

This book is the whole truth about healthy nutrition, how it is hidden from us and why. You have a right to know. But what do we do — form our own opinions about what constitutes a healthy diet, or continue to trust the research of pharmacists and medical companies that make money from our diseases? Your choice.

10. In 100 days' uniform. Heinrich Bergmüller and Knut Okresek
We all want to look better, fall asleep and wake up easily, break out of the cycle of unhealthy living and improve our athletic performance. This book will help anyone who wants to change their life. The training program from the famous Olympian is suitable for everyone, regardless of age and sports training.

To get in shape and get used to a new lifestyle, it will take only 100 days, and then the main thing is not to stop.

11. Maximum concentration. Lucy Joe Palladino
A truly useful book that will teach you how to control attention and live in a state of “flow”. Never before have questions of concentration been so acute. Anyone, anywhere, can call and write to you. You don’t understand what’s going on, digital stimuli are pushing forward, you’re ready to run away and... what was needed?

This book will help you take life into your own hands and decide what to let into it and what to leave outside. As the Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset said, “Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.” We create ourselves by choosing what to pay attention to.

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