The Fat-Free Truth: Real Answers to the FItness and Weight-Loss Questions You Wonder About Most - Softcover

Neporent, Liz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618310738 ISBN 13: 9780618310739

Publisher: Harvest, 2005

Synopsis

Atkins works! Eat grapefruit—shed weight! Pilates gives you "long, lean muscles—no bulk!" Each day we are bombarded with conflicting fitness information, promises, and advice—from the Internet, magazines, books, TV, advertising, experts, trainers, coaches, friends. But how do you know whom you can trust?

In The Fat-Free Truth, Liz Neporent and Suzanne Schlosberg cut through the noise, synthesize the literature, and get to the truth by providing 239 accurate, straight-shooting answers to America’s most pressing fitness and weight-loss questions. No one understands the excess of misinformation out there better than Liz and Suzanne. For ten years, Suzanne has written Shape’s “Weight Loss Q&A,” the most popular column in the country’s largest fitness magazine. Liz fields weekly questions as the “Fit by Friday” columnist for iVillage, the leading Internet site for women’s issues. Together they receive more than a thousand questions a month from people nationwide.
Frank, funny, and endlessly informative, The Fat-Free Truth assembles in one place everything you really need to know to get fit and stay fit—and to keep your sanity while doing so.

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About the Author

SUZANNE SCHLOSBERG is the best-selling author of The Ultimate Workout Log, The Active Woman’s Pregnancy Log, and numerous other books. She has written for Shape, Fitness, Health, Real Simple, and Weight Watchers, among numerous other publications.

From Publishers Weekly

Serious dieters are constantly assailed with contradictory information on the best way to lose weight. In this concise book, Neporent (The Ultimate Body; Buns of Steel; etc.) and Shape contributing editor Schlosberg use a Q&A format with 239 questions to broach this problem. They cover topics ranging from body fat, weight and muscle to nutrition, cardiovascular exercise, strength training, "mind-body" exercise, prenatal fitness and postpartum weight loss. Each question gets a "short answer" and then a longer explanation, backed by research. For those who want to purchase equipment to use at home, there’s a chapter on getting your money’s worth with fitness equipment. Readers who travel often will find information on how to stay in shape when they’re without equipment. Those who have "gym phobia" will find tips on learning the ropes and understanding gym etiquette. The authors’ sense of humor makes reading many of the answers fun and informative—their tone is upbeat and chatty, but still intelligent (e.g., when answering the "how fattening is alcohol?" question, they respond, "they don’t call ’em ‘beer bellies’ for nothing"). This simple, straightforward book covers almost anything readers would want to know about exercise, diet and nutrition, and should appeal to people at all fitness levels.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harvest
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0618310738
• ISBN 13: 9780618310739
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368