Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know (Second Edition) is Now on Pre-Sale
coming fall 2025: Food and NutritioN (Second Edition)
Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know
In Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know® (Oxford University Press, 2025), Harvard- and Columbia-trained scientist and food lover Dr. P.K. Newby applies a multidisciplinary lens and ecological paradigm to shine a spotlight on today’s food problems, farm to fork and far beyond, while sharing the keys to creating healthy and sustainable diets for ourselves and the planet we share. Updated chapters reveal 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?
The first edition of Food & Nutrition (2018) has been published in Chinese (2024) and Turkish (2021), and the second edition drops October 2025. (Pre-order here.)
**ON SALE NOW** Superfoods: Eat Your Way to Health and Longevity
In Superfoods, a 2025 National Geographic Special 10 year edition re-release, Dr. P.K. Newby highlights 92 plants at the heart of health, longevity, and sustainability. The magazine includes shopping and cooking tips and even a few of my favorite recipes. (Think: Pan-Asian Power Bowl, Mexican Rice and Beans, and Roasted Butternut Squash Salad with Maple Vinaigrette.)
You can find Superfoods at news stands and checkout counters for a limited time beginning February 10, 2025.
Other books
Superfoods: Eat Your Way to Health and Longevity (National Geographic, 2016). This special edition bookazine and was reissued in February 2025.
Foods for Health: Choose and Use the Very Best Foods for Your Family and Our Planet (National Geographic, 2015).
free e-cookbooks featuring plant-based recipes
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
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)
media library highlights
Op-eds and Articles
Talks and Presentations
Talks and Presentations
Plant-Based Meat: What the Nutrition and Environmental Science Shows | Genetic Literacy Project, 1/27/20
Confused about what to eat? Science can help. | The Conversation, 7/5/19
So long, veganuary: here's how to consume consciously year round. | New Scientist, 1/30/19
GMOs: Good or Bad? | Wallet Hub, 11/18/16
When a Healthy Diet Meets a Planet in Peril | Reviewed, 09/15/15
Prescribing Good Food for Better Health | Food Tank, 03/10/15
Can you eat your own poop? | Gawker, 2/21/13
The Future of Food: How Science, Technology, and Consumerism Shape What We Eat | in Harvard Vision, 2003
Talks and Presentations
Talks and Presentations
Talks and Presentations
Food Evolution: The Final Frontier | Seeds & Chips, Milan, Italy, 5/8/19
Sci-Fi Food (with Chewbacca!) | Museum of Science, Boston MA 5/4/19
Produce Matters: Why Eating More Plants is Key to Health | SXSW, Austin TX, 3/8/19
Is the Future of Food Soylent Green? | National Science on Screen Foundation, Boston MA, 10/8/15
Nutrition Science and Communication in the 21st Century | Food+ Symposium, Harvard University, 02/3/15
Cooking & Eating the PK Way | Boston Local Food Festival, 10/14/2014
Television and Digital
Talks and Presentations
Television and Digital
Cooking Plant-Based Cuisine | ABC | The Taste, 2014-15
I Love Black C***! | Jimmy Kimmel Live! Cameo, (Just for fun.) 1/10/19
Diet and Climate Change: Plant-Based Meat | NBC and Telemundo, 2019 (excerpt)
Why is Nutrition So Confusing? | KATU Afternoon Live, 1/9/19
The Benefits of Plant-Based Diets | KATU Morning Show, 08/07/19
Talking Food, Nutrition, and Sustainability | News Center Maine 1/28/19
The Power of Vegetables | KATU Afternoon Live, 08/07/19
Food & Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know | KATU Morning Show, 1/9/19