Media Highlights
New Book: Food & Nutrition
In Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know ® (Oxford University Press, 2025), Harvard- and Columbia-trained scientist and gastronome Dr. P.K. Newby applies a multidisciplinary lens and nutritional ecology paradigm to shine a spotlight on today’s urgent food challenges, from farm to fork and far beyond, while sharing the keys to creating healthy and sustainable diets for ourselves and the planet we share.
The second, completely updated edition introduces new lexicon to describe our current food polycrisis--that is, agshittification--and reveals striking new data on plant-based diets, longevity, and sustainability; food, mood, and mental health; diet, COVID-19, and immunity; megafactory farming and climate change; and ultra-processed foods and chronic disease.
The food revolution is now. Ready to pick up your fork?
Now scheduling events for Fall 2026 and Spring 2027.
Other Books
Superfoods for Health and Longevity (Second Edition)
Food and Nutrition
(First Edition)
Superfoods for Health and Longevity (First Edition)
Foods for Health
(Second Edition)
From farm to fork and far beyond, what we eat matters.
Video Highlights: Plant-Based Power
Eating More Plants is Key to Health
In this interactive session at SXSW, Dr. Newby presents the scientific evidence showing the incredible power of plants—especially vegetables and fruit—to promote health, longevity, and sustainability (Austin, Texas; March 2019).
Meat, Plant-Based Meat, and Climate Change
In this prime-time NBC 10/Telemundo special on food and climate change, meteorologist Michael Page interviews Dr. Newby on how meat impacts the environment compared to plant-based products like Beyond Meat (Boston, MA; March 2019).
Food Evolution & The Future of Food
The Future of Food: The Final Frontier
In this family-friendly, sci-fi food festival at the Boston Museum of Science, scientist and Trekkie Dr. P.K. Newby shares the stage with everyone's favorite Wookiee, Chewbacca (!). (She loves Star Wars, too.) This is a snippet; link to the full video here. (Boston, MA; May 2019).
Free E-Cookbooks
How to Eat: Plant-Based Recipes to Save Your Life and Our Planet
Learn about my "Healthy Hedonism" philosophy with tasty recipes from my kitchen to yours. It's the first free e-cookbook in the series to help raise money for those who hunger while helping you eat better, too. (P.K. Newby, 2020)
Thanks + Giving: Healthy Hedonism Recipes for Body and Soul
Thanksgiving is a time for food and family, only this year without the family. Check out some of my holiday faves in this second e-cookbook in my "Healthy Hedonism" series to help those who hunger while helping you eat better, too. (P.K. Newby, 2021)
A Very Covid Christmas: Sharing Seasonal Comforts, From My Kitchen to Yours
The holiday season is a time for food and family, yet the year marches on while quarantine continues. Here, a few of my Christmas favorites in this third e-cookbook in my "Healthy Hedonism" series to help those who hunger while helping you eat better, too. (P.K. Newby, 2021)
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