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Flat Belly Diet | 
 enlarge | Authors: Liz Vaccariello, Cynthia Sass
Publisher: Rodale Books
Category: Book
List Price: $25.95
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 62
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.8 x 1.2
ISBN: 1594868514
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.25
EAN: 9781594868511
ASIN: 1594868514
Publication Date: October 28, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
Prevention magazine is the country's most authoritative, trustworthy, and innovative source for practical health, nutrition, and fitness information. Now, its editors bring you a weight-loss plan that's specifically designed to target your number-one trouble spot: BELLY FAT. For women over 40, belly fat is incredibly stealth and incredibly stubborn. It's also the most deadly, contributing to a higher risk of heart disease, diabetes, and chronic illness than any other type of fat on your body. Finally, science has helped uncover a key dietary weapon in the fight against belly fat. Monounsaturated fatty acids, or MUFAs, help dieters lose more weight--in their bellies specifically--and keep it off longer. Flat Belly Diet! will lead you step by step, day by day, meal by meal toward a flatter belly...and a longer, healthier life.
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 Don't bother !!! November 18, 2008
C. Pellegrino (RI)
This book is certainly not worth the money and has no new useful information. I wish I could have read an excert from the book as I would not have wasted my money. There is nothing in this book that you don't already know if you are trying to either lose weight or just eat better !!!!!!!
 Let's Follow A Low Fad Diet November 15, 2008
Debbie Mandel (Long Island, NY,United States)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
The Flat Belly Diet is another eat right and exercise diet book focusing on a woman's vulnerability - her belly - the center of her creativity and her ego. The reason women are still struggling and waging war against their food is not addressed here. We eat to fill an empty heart. We are stressed about our endless to-do list, so we don't sleep well, jolt our bodies awake with caffeine and eat junk food to surge and crash and on to the next chore. Many of us will have bellies no matter what - it is in our genes. If we want to change, we have to accept ourselves as we are and manage our stress. We have to make ourselves a priority on the to-do list, create time for the self - that's why exercise often doesn't happen because we do it for the self. To augment our health and fitness program we need to address the root cause of self-sabotage as explained in my bookAddicted to Stress: A Woman's 7 Step Program to Reclaim Joy and Spontaneity in LifeAnd if you have a belly, try belly dancing.
 Nothing New and Overstated November 14, 2008
Kim Daniel (FL)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Many, many books have addressed satiety and mono unsaturated fats. But this simplistic approach that adding them to all meals changes your diet so dramatically, leaves out many important nutritional components. No breakthroughs here.
 BEST diet ever!!!!! November 7, 2008
RIA (CT)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've done south beach,bistro md, weight watchers, susanne summers, abbs diet (which I actually gained weight on), etc. You name it I've tried it & I can't seem to shake off my platau of 10 lbs. I have all my pre-baby clothes that I've been trying to fit into for 2years & I think I'll fit into them by thanksgiving on this diet. It starts with a SUPER easy 4 day anti bloat kickstart. I lost 4lbs on that. The 1st day was really hard as in every diet i've tried but It was amazingly easy as the week progressed. I also felt SO great!!! I don't know if it was the phychological part of the book or the actual diet. I was energized & in high spirits, while PMSing??? I have to add that this diet is meant for Moms on the go. It has a list of frozen meals to choose from!! I'm not a big fan but tried the Amy's frozen meal that was recomended from this book & it it was pretty tasty. As far as the list of food they suggest, I found the brands a little easier to find compared to a diet like SB. Easy rules to follow. 1.eat a MUFA at every meal 2. Eat no more than 400 calories a meal & 3. Don't go more than 4 hours w/out eating. There are super easy recipes as well as more complicated ones in the book. I love the fact that you can have chocolate!! During my cycle I tend to crave chocolate & these recipes & food combinations w/chocolate have kept me on track. I'm down 6 lbs & feel like I canreach my goal before New Years!! Can't say much about the workouts. I work out on my own 3-4 times a week so that has never been an issue for me but they have low-high level workouts. It's worth trying if your a busy Mom & have your kids mac & cheese staring at you after they have gone down for their nap. It's really making it easy for me to get through those moments!!! Thank you prevention!!!!
The Deja Vu Diet All Over Again November 4, 2008
Pam V. (Chicago, IL)
51 out of 60 found this review helpful
It's cheerful and bouncy. It's encouraging and hopeful. But haven't I heard all of this somewhere before? Some of it went a long way to sound fresh (I'm looking at you, Sassy water). A lot of the recipes are so exotic they're just weird (yes, hot dog cooked in peanut oil and topped with celery seed--I mean you).
Of course I like hearing that I should eat more avocado, olive oil, cashews and chocolate. Where do I sign up? And I'm a sucker for a new plan that's based on scientific studies. But the real crux of the diet is good old calorie restriction: The author recommends 1,600 a day. I have two problems with that. One is that I'm not so sure that the calorie count is low enough for me or other people who are just looking to trim by 20 pounds. The other problem is that if calorie counting were so effective, would any of us need another diet book? I think not.
Of course, the book argues that because they've worked a MUFA (short-hand for mono-unsaturated fatty acid) into every meal, you won't be hungry and this time you will finally be able to stick to your (possibly overgenerous) calorie allotment. Maybe so. I do find myself buying more avocados lately, and they do tend to hold me pretty well. And I love me a peanut butter and banana smoothie (the recipe is online at Prevention in the Flat Belly Diet area, but I didn't see it in the book), which is very satisfying. So the plan is not totally without merit. But it's not a major breakthrough, and it appears to have some pretty serious flaws.
For example, maybe you can lose weight without exercise, but this book appears to be pandering to a crowd of couch potatoes. Who wouldn't love someone authoritative to tell them it's really not necessary to pry their butts off the couch for a few minutes a day? I'm reminded of a comedian who said,"I've been really trying to lose weight but it just isn't working. I've tried everything short of diet and exercise." That joke's only funny because we all know you've got to get moving to be healthy and trim down. This book makes that sound optional. Sure, the last chapter has some workouts and pictures of people lifting weights, but that's long after they've already made the point that you don't have to do any of it to be successful with this diet. Call me a skeptic for questioning that promise.
Which makes me wonder--is it true that I should be eating more chocolate and avocados, or is someone just pandering to those of us who have trouble putting down the fork when we know we should? Pass me the guacamole while I think about that one.
If you need a reminder to eat whole grains and vegetables, to write down what you eat, to slow down and enjoy your food, then okay, maybe this book will be valuable for you. Or, for no charge I can tell you that you really ought to control your portions and exercise for at least 30 minutes a day.
In return, maybe you can send me some avocados. I seem to be out.
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