2024 Gift Guide: Nutrition and Body Positive Books For Kids and Adults

As the holidays approach, we want to share our current favorite nutrition and body-positive books and resources with you.

These gifts are free of diet culture and will support your friends and family members in tuning in and listening to the wisdom of their bodies.

2024 Newly Published Nutrition Children’s Books

1. Around the Garden We Grow by Florence Ogunlesi, Sarah Ganginis, and Aurelio Del Pino

The colorful book cover titled "Around the Garden We Grow" serves as a delightful gift guide, featuring a diverse group of people strolling past urban buildings. A vibrant garden with vegetables and a rainbow under a sunny blue sky completes this enchanting scene.

This brand new book explores community gardens, farmer’s markets and grocery stores! It’s full of information about food, growth, community and respect. This is the perfect gift for a curious young reader!

2. All Food is Good Food by Molly Jackson Ehlert and Fanny Liem

Illustration of three diverse children enjoying different foods: fries, broccoli, pizza, sushi, and rice. The text reads "All Food is Good Food" in a playful font with colorful artwork—a delightful addition to any gift guide celebrating culinary diversity.

This book excites your eyes and taste buds as it explores all kinds of foods – from congee to pancakes, from dim sum to pizza! The message of this book, that there is room on your plate for ALL kinds of foods, is a valuable one for young (and older!) people.

Nutrition, Anti-Diet, Intuitive Eating, and Body Positive Books:

1. Raising Body Positive Teens by Signe Darpinian, Wendy Sterling, and Shelley Aggarwal

The cover of the book "Raising Body Positive Teens" resembles a perfect gift guide, featuring illustrations of yoga poses, healthy foods like broccoli and pizza, as well as cupcakes. It guides diet-free living, exercise, and body image by authors Signe Darpinian, Wendy Sterling, and Shelley Aggarwal.

Is there a parent of a teen on your list? This book is packed with information from a trio of writers with extensive experience, a psychotherapist, a Registered Dietitian, and a medical doctor. This easy-to-read book includes practical tips, checklists, and thought-provoking exercises to help the reader support their teen in feeling positive about their body.

2. Your Body is Not an Apology Workbook by Sonya Renee Taylor

This workbook, a companion to The Body is Not an Apology, offers practical tools and frameworks to guide the reader toward radical self-love. Taylor challenges the reader to leave behind shame and not apologize for the powerful body they have.

3. Reclaiming Body Trust by Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant

Want to give a gift to support body trust? This brand-new book offers the reader a path to healing – the Rupture, the Reckoning, and the Reclamation. Kinavey and Sturtevant’s writing and Body Trust framework provide an intersectional and social-justice-oriented approach to healing and body liberation.

2. How to Raise An Intuitive Eater by Sumner Brooks and Amee Severson

Looking for a book for a parent or caregiver who wants to feed their child in a diet-free way? This comprehensive book dives into the research about feeding children and provides practical feeding advice to support intuitive eating and keep diet culture out of feeding.

5. Simply Julia by Julia Turshen

This is, we believe, the first-ever anti-diet cookbook. Julia Turshen provides many simple and mouthwatering recipes and weaves in messages of body acceptance and intuitive eating. Elizabeth loves to make lots of recipes from this book. Her current favorite is the Sesame Rice Bowels with Tofu, Quickles, and Peanut Sauce.

6. Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture by Virginia Sole-Smith

This much awaited book, published in 2023, is the first of its kind! It provides parents with information, camaraderie, and support, as we all navigate parenting in the face of diet culture each day.

7. The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses, and Find Your True Well-Being by Christy Harrison, MPH, RD

Another important book from Christy Harrison, The Wellness Trap takes a deep dive into the harms of wellness culture. A must read!

8. Diet-Free Parenting Cards by Sunny Side Up Nutrition

This card deck is the perfect holiday gift or stocking stuffer for the parent that may like extra support in their diet-free parenting journey. Diet culture is everywhere, and parenting can be hard, exhausting, and confusing, at times.

As parents, we are bombarded with messages about how to feed our children. This card deck is meant to serve as an antidote to the many diet culture messages we all absorb each day.