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| | The ABS Diet: The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life: For Women |  | Author: David Zinczenko
Publisher: Rodale Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  223 reviews
Sales Rank: 172884
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 367
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 1594863091
EAN: 9781594863097
ASIN: 1594863091
Publication Date: January 2005
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Product Description
Whether you want to change your body to improve your health, your looks, your athletic performance, or your sex appeal, The Abs Diet exclusive women's edition offers you a simple promise: If you follow this plan, you will transform your body so that you can accomplish each and every one of those goals. As a bonus, The Abs Diet exclusive women's edition will do something more than just enhance your life - this book is going to save it.In addition, just look at what you'll gain: * A fitter, healthier, sexier body. (Both men and women rate a flat stomach as the most appealing muscle group.) * Freedom from back pain and injury. (In one study, firmer abs were found to be the most important predictor of one's overall health.) * A longer, healthier life. (The right diet can fight cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, and more.) * A better sex life. (Learn the diet-and-exercise prescription for total sexcellence.) * Relief from stress. (A stress-busting workout can help you get the fit body and calm mind you want.)Great abs are only 6 weeks away.
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 Nice exercise book, but a middling diet September 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I got this book after having great success losing weight with Dr. Shapiro's Picture Perfect Weight Loss: The Visual Program for Permanent Weight Loss, but finding I wasn't doing much on the exercise front and had lost a lot of muscle as well as fat. I had also picked up David Zinczenko's Eat This Not That!: Thousands of Simple Food Swaps That Can Save You 10, 20, 30 Pounds-or More!, which I felt had a practical approach similar to Dr. Shapiro's.
One thing that really bothers me about a diet book is when I see something in it that's just an oft-repeated myth, without vetting it. For example, the Abs Diet recommends that we drink at least eight cups of water a day. Google "eight cups water myth" and you'll see that that's pretty much a myth - check the link from [...]. That makes me even more concerned about downing whey powder, which the Abs Diet recommends, along with a recommendation to take in a gram of protein per pound of bodyweight a day - a really large amount of protein. I haven't seen good medical evidence on this one, but I do know that it's heavily promoted by every whey powder manufacturer in existence, and I bet you the original science is lost in the shuffle. Finally, we're told that a pound of muscle burns "up to" 50 additional calories per day. Even bodybuilding sites question this (maybe it depends on what is meant by "up to"), and there are studies that say the additional metabolic effect of muscle is very minimal. Those last two points throw the entire diet into question in my mind, since the diet is all about eating more protein to build more muscle to burn off more calories.
As a recommendation - just because one scientific study or a thousand different websites say something about diet or exercise doesn't mean it's true. Scientific studies about diet and exercise are often contradictory and confusing, and there are often tens or hundreds for one particular area, making it easy for someone wanting to make an argument to cherry-pick. Websites (and people) often repeat misinformation. David Zinczenko's problem is that he repeats a lot of what he has heard without doing much vetting.
With that said I did start following the exercise plan - which I like a lot - and got a few decent diet ideas out of the book. The exercise plan is written so you can do it with dumbbells or in a gym. You're put through a total-body circuit very quickly. The net effect is that you get cardio and strength training in a single workout.
And the diet as a whole doesn't seem horrible depending on how you interpret it - but I think there are better diet ideas out there, including the Dr. Shapiro one above.
 The Ab's diet works September 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is I believe the most common sense eating plan I have ever read. It's informative, and obviously backed up by good research. In Three month's with a moderate workout, I am down almost a total of 20 pounds, from 210 getting close to 190. It's great reading and fun reading which is rare in a book like this. Anyone who gives less than a 5 star review needs to get off their Butt and get to work. Sorry, can't stand the complainers.
Abs Diet August 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The word "diet" shouldn't even be in the title of this book because it's not really a diet. The book explains what you should be eating the most of and what you should stay away from, but not in a 'diet' sort of way by limiting your daily intake. He basically says to eat all you want of the healthy foods nature has to offer! Great book for those who are frustrated with yo-yo dieting and other eating plans that you cannot keep up with for a lifetime. This one can!!
Decent health book July 30, 2008
The book has helped me to clean up my diet, however I haven't really lost much weight on the program so I've also started counting calories a bit. I'm impressed however by the exercise regime set out in the book.
Good ideas need to be organized July 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The author has good overall ideas on weight loss, but needs to organize his program into a step by step method. The book is too hodge podge considering the fact that what he says is not overwhelming.
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