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3 reviews for:
The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life
Ted Spiker, David Zinczenko
3.75 AVERAGE
3 reviews for:
The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life
Ted Spiker, David Zinczenko
3.75 AVERAGE
Great read even just for general advice on eating healthy and exercising—so much so that I’d recommend it for that alone. It’s no magic bullet like Atkins, in fact it explains what’s wrong with Atkins and its counterparts. Instead, The Abs Diet is a rundown of how to eat healthy and effectively lose body fat.
A few takeaways to give you an idea:
- Protein keeps you full. Smaller meals and snacking on nuts can keep you from binging later on.
- Avoid salted nuts and other salty snacks. They cause you to retain water, which puts more water in your bloodstream, which causes high blood pressure.
- You burn calories by building and maintaining muscle, even when you’re not actually working out—even while you’re sitting still and sleeping.
- Cardio works better in short, intense bursts rather than sustained, consistent sessions. The latter uses up energy that could go toward muscle-building workouts, which can burn calories long after you leave the gym. The author includes studies to support his claim that short, intense intervals ultimately burn more fat.
- There’s a good rundown of good cholesterol and bad cholesterol, and what foods are good sources of each.
There’s much more—full workout and diet plans, and lots of great general healthy eating and exercising advice. And it’s easy to read, written in a conversational style. Health nuts and experts probably won’t gain any new insight (my wife, a nurse, wondered my I didn’t know a lot of this already), but for the rest of us, this is an excellent resource.
A few takeaways to give you an idea:
- Protein keeps you full. Smaller meals and snacking on nuts can keep you from binging later on.
- Avoid salted nuts and other salty snacks. They cause you to retain water, which puts more water in your bloodstream, which causes high blood pressure.
- You burn calories by building and maintaining muscle, even when you’re not actually working out—even while you’re sitting still and sleeping.
- Cardio works better in short, intense bursts rather than sustained, consistent sessions. The latter uses up energy that could go toward muscle-building workouts, which can burn calories long after you leave the gym. The author includes studies to support his claim that short, intense intervals ultimately burn more fat.
- There’s a good rundown of good cholesterol and bad cholesterol, and what foods are good sources of each.
There’s much more—full workout and diet plans, and lots of great general healthy eating and exercising advice. And it’s easy to read, written in a conversational style. Health nuts and experts probably won’t gain any new insight (my wife, a nurse, wondered my I didn’t know a lot of this already), but for the rest of us, this is an excellent resource.
I don't read a lot of diet books, but this seemed to be a good one. The discuss food options, exercises for people who have and don't have gym memberships, and they stressed the importance of this being a lifestyle change not a temporary fix. I would say this book did not appeal to me as much because I didn't like the featured recipes because I try to avoid extra sugar.
Easy to follow plan that doesn't eliminate any of the food groups! Easy exercise program that doesn't have you exercising for hours. Also this plan includes cheating which is the key to my diet success!!