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Everything You Need To Know About Fat Loss |  | Author: Chris Aceto
Publisher: Nutramedia
Category: Book
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Rating:  33 reviews
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 170
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 0966916867
Dewey Decimal Number: 613
EAN: 9780966916867
ASIN: 0966916867
Publication Date: June 2, 2001
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Trying to lose weight but just too confused as where to start? Everything You Need to Know About Fat Loss will show you the way. You will learn and understand the effects total calories, types of calories and exercise exert on body fat loss and body fat inhibition. The author covers 8 important topics in 11 chapters. The topics include: *Physiology of Weight Loss
*Calories
*Carbohydrates, Protein and Fat
*Fat Storing Foods
*Hormones
*Drugs
*Diets
*Exercise
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 facts only, no gimicks , written for athletes and fitness professionals November 30, 2009
C. El Refaei (Dubai)
this book is straight to the point, a great read, full of scientifically valid useful information. If you want a lose weight quick diet program this book isn't for you, but if you want to understand how your body works, how fat is burned , how to find out how many calories your body needs and how to write a good nutrition program specifically tailored for you or your clients this is the book for you. This book doesn't teach you a new fad diet it helps you understand nutrition, something most of us should have learned in second grade science class.
 Needed a copy editor desperately October 15, 2009
Turf Course (NY)
It's hard to take the book seriously when you spend most of the reading time being distracted by numerous spelling and grammatical errors. Sure, the book may contain some valuable information, but to me, the author's credibility was diminished with his lack of attention to detail.
 Fat Loss November 27, 2008
Dr Adam Weiss (Buffalo Grove,IL.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The author shows the reader how to balance their protein and carbs intake with simple step-by-step methods without making it hard to do in today's fast pace lifestyle.How many calories do you need a day? The author provides a formula to determine just that and the reader's percentage of protein and carbs per meal is figured in simple math terms.A good place to start for someone trying to lose weight.
Useful information August 3, 2008
Susanna Hutcheson (Midwest U.S.A.)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The first thing I noticed about this short book was the tremendous number of misspellings and poor grammar. For example, when the author meant "you're" he would say "your". Yes, to some these are small things. But to me they tend to take from the credibility of the author and the material.
Having said that, the book was rather good and most of the information useful. The method to determine your calorie needs was somewhat confusing and unlike any I've used before. But it came out about the same as other methods. If your lean body mass is 137, for example, your base calorie need is 1370. You simply add a zero to your weight. Then you add calories for your level of activity. Not many people really know their lean body mass. So this is not the best way for the average person to get this figure.
But when he gets into the protein, carb and fat needs, he sort of lost me. I do log my calories. But I'm not about to fret with the number of macronutrients I get each day. I have a life, after all. It's good to know basically what you need, of course. But he offers a method of losing weight that asks you to cut down on carbs for a few days and then add 15% for one day. It's all far too much for me. I'm not questioning that it might work.
All these weight loss and fat loss books tell you not to worry about counting calories. Yet they all end out saying to log your calories. And this one goes even farther --- log your protein, carbs and fat. It also suggests a 15% fat intake. New studies say that the Mediterranean diet with more good fat is the best of all. I still try and keep mine at twenty or thirty percent. When it's too low, your skin starts to dry up like a prune. Not a pretty picture.
Aside from the bad grammar and poor spelling and the difficult calculations, the book is worth reading. You'll no doubt get some useful information from it. It's not unlike many other books on the subject. They all begin to sound alike and borrow from each other. I've noticed a few even go word-for-word in some parts from other books. I can't say this book did that. But many do.
At any rate, I recommend the book if you take from it what helps you and discard the rest. It is dead-on about weight lifting being the best exercise for weight loss and it goes into great detail to explain this.
- Susanna K. Hutcheson
Texas CPA March 1, 2008
T. Stewart
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was essential to my change in eating habits and immediate fat loss. I had been in weight training for 8 months without much loss of fat. My personal trainer recommended this book. Reading it has made a big difference. For me, understanding the process of fat loss was the tipping point of changing my eating and meal preferences. This is the only book I have found that both clearly explains the process for a non-scientist reader plus incorporates exactly how the process works with weight training.
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