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| Flat Belly Diet | 
 enlarge | Authors: Liz Vaccariello, Cynthia Sass
Publisher: Rodale Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 116
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 368
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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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 Highly recommend November 22, 2008
This book is well written, thorough, and easy to follow. Everything you need to know about this flat belly diet is contained within this book. The flat belly diet is easy, delicious and it works.
Add MUFAs & Lose Weight without Calorie Restriction November 22, 2008
The best thing in this book is the info on MUFAs (monounsaturated fats), especially the chart that tells how to get 50-100 calories of MUFAs in the daily 3 meals and 1 snack. What's great about this diet is that you can eat a maintenance number of calories and still lose weight, especially around the belly. These MUFAs are great for other areas of health, such as the heart, as well. The book includes exercise and advice to prevent emotional eating, and has testimonials with "before" and "after" photos sprinkled throughout. It even has a fast food chart for what to eat at each of the fast food restaurants.
Some of the little gems in the book include a recipe for "sassy water" (since you're supposed to get off coffee, tea, and carbonated drinks, which all cause bloating), as well as a four-day guide of what to do to get rid of bloating. (Ex: Don't chew gum, which causes you to swallow air.) There are also tidbits of fun facts (like macadamia nuts are higher in MUFAs than any other nuts or seeds).
There is some of what I would, however consider bad advice. Soybean and canola oil are recommended (even though they are almost always genetically modified!), as well as peanut butter (high in aflaxtoxin, a cancer-causing poison). She also says to "Eat only cooked vegetables, smaller portions of unsweetened dried fruit, and canned fruits in natural juice" (to avoid expanding your GI tract with extra volume) which I consider bad advice since you will lose out on a lot of nutrients and enzymes that your body needs whenever you chose processed over fresh.
The great thing about the recipes is that they are all quick (10 to 20 minutes) which makes them realistic. A raw foodist would have to come up with her own recipes, but the main idea is to include 50-100 calories of MUFAs in each of the 3 meals and 1 snack per day and limit the meal/snacks to 400 calories each. Lara bars (which are 90-100% raw) are also allowed as meal replacements.
 Not the greatest..... November 21, 2008
This book is not the greatest. I work out daily with cardio, weight lifting & walking my dog. I got this book to learn more about the MUFA's & how to incorporate them into meals. I was real fired up to try the 4-day Jumpstart Anti-Bloat. What a major disappointment. I was starved the whole time & was literally falling asleep while driving to work & at work because it gave me no energy at all. I quit on the 3rd day & went back to my orginal healthy eating habits. I hate to say it but the 'sassy water' was good for one day, then it was boring. It was a very bland eating plan. I feel 10 million times better today going back to my old eating ways. Yes I will incorporate the MUFA's into my eating habits more, but as a few others have said in their reviews, it's for the one's who don't really want to get off the couch & can handle not eating for 4 hours due to the fact they do nothing. I need constant energy & usually eat every 2 or 2 1/2 hours. I had headaches, lack of energy, being down right groggy & just felt sick. Definately not a book worth buying/following if you already know a lot about healthy eating. This is book about the 'Oh my God it worked great', & the authors enthusiasm for promoting a book that every page is about the same info..............be cautious when deciding to buy............
Ready to get flat? November 20, 2008
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
The Flat Belly Diet!, like other diet books, presents a program that takes an unusual angle on slimming your waistline: eating a reduced calorie diet that is high in monounsaturated fat (MUFA) in order to flatten your belly with no exercise required. The program is 32 days long and it's based on "studies" that suggest this is enough time to make a dietary and lifestyle change.
The first thing the book teaches you is there are two types of primary body fat: subcutaneous and visceral. Directly under your skin you find the subcutaneous and then the visceral fat surrounds your organs. Visceral fat is far more dangerous to your health (common scientific knowledge). here is no disputing the fact that visceral fat is the most dangerous one for our health. There are many ways to reduce your visceral fat, but this diet focuses on monounsaturated fats (MUFA) that are part of your subcutaneous fat (your belly!).
Like other diet books, this one is filled with stories of people who have lost inches off their waistline using this program. With MUFAs the solution for this plan, you are supposed to fill up on them, and this will eliminate your belly fat.
The first part of this diet is called the Four-Day Anti-Bloat Jumpstart. The book promises you'll lose up to 5 total inches. The premise for this is to get you motivated to proceed with the remainder of the diet by seeing some results happen quickly. The goal for these four days is to eliminate gas, heavy solids, and excess fluid. A 1,200-calorie diet is given with the instructions. From there you spend the next 28 days eating a 1,600-calorie requirement (based on a 40 year old woman of average height, frame size, etc). That's pretty much it. MUFAs are this book's new addition to the world of diets.
I also bought a book called The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book after seeing it recommended here with Flat Belly Diet!, and I strongly recommend it because it's a fascinating book and it helped me to control some of my emotional eating by becoming more self-aware and improving my ability to self-manage.
Helpful & Insightful November 20, 2008
OK I would like to start off by saying that this book does NOT say you don't have to work out! It encourages you to do so. What it is saying is that if you change your diet. i.e going from eating pizza and ice cream to fruits and good oils you will see a change. I mean come on that is a given! They are no way in any way shape or form trying to send the message that you can lose all the weight you want without working out.
Another point I would like to add is that all these ingredients can be found at your local grocery store or H-E-B. Yes the groceries can come out to a good amount of cash, but seriously it's a small price to pay for improved health and vitality. Plus buying junk food hits your wallet harder in the long run.
With that being said I am on my 3rd day of this diet, and I must say I am feeling way more energetic! In addition to following this diet I work out about an hour a day. 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes in the evening. This book is helpful as a SUPPLEMENT to working out!!!
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