About David Steinman
David Steinman is an award-winning journalist who has written best-selling books on the environment and health. Diet for a Poisoned Planet was a Seattle Times best-seller and sold more than 100,000 copies nationwide. His The Safe Shopper’s Bible (coauthored with Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.) also sold more than 100,000 copies. He is featured in the upcoming HBO Max documentary Not So Pretty, scheduled to air in April 2022.
His investigative reporting and writing have won awards from Best of the West, California Newspaper Publishers’ Association, Sierra Club, and the Green Book Festival.
David is the publisher of HealthyLivinG Magazine and serves as director of the non-profit Chemical Toxin Working Group (Healthy Living Foundation), a public-interest environmental and consumer advocacy organization that takes legal action and litigates on behalf of consumers and the environment. Under his leadership, CTWG has won major court and legal cases against brands such as Herbal Essences, Pantene, Chicken of the Sea, Bumble Bee, Alberto VO5, Trader Joe’s, and Mrs. Meyers for selling products with high amounts of toxic chemicals that required their removal or labeling.
Among his groundbreaking books on our toxic environment are:
Diet for a Poisoned Planet (Harmony, $21.95, hardcover, 1990, 978–0517575123, 70,000 sold; Ballantine, $12.50, softcover, 1992, 978–0345374653, 40,000 sold; Running Press, $17.95, revised softcover edition, 2007, 978–1560259220, 5,000 sold);
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The Safe Shopper’s Bible (Macmillan, $17.95, softcover, 1995, 978–0020820857; Wiley, $21.95, 2001, 978–0020820857, more than 100,000 sold);
The Breast Cancer Prevention Program (Macmillan, $24.95, hardcover, 1996, 978–0028626345, 20,000 sold, Macmillan softcover, $14.95, 1998, 978–0028626345, 10,000 sold);
Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Running Press, $16.95, softcover, 2007, 978–1560258063, 7,500 sold).
Articles featuring or mentioning David’s investigative work have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today, among other newspapers and magazines. He has appeared on CNN, Fox, and CNBC, and on local television stations throughout the United States and Canada.
He is the twenty-first most famous male environmentalist and fifty-sixth of all environmentalists, according to Ranker.com.
He represented the public interest at the National Academy of Sciences and has published articles for the Los Angeles Times, New York Times syndicate, Self, Shape, Thrive Global, Good Men Project, and HealthyLivinG Magazine.
David is a graduate of Columbia College in the City of New York and has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Oregon. He is the father of three healthy children.
David is represented by the Perry Literary Agency.
