The Fat Free Truth: 239 Real Answers to the Fitness and Weight-Loss Questions You Wonder About Most

by Neporent, Liz

• ISBN13: 9780618310739
• ISBN10: 0618310738
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Mariner Books

Summary

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 Americas 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 Shapes Weight Loss QA, the most popular column in the countrys largest fitness magazine. Liz fields weekly questions as the Fit by Friday columnist for iVillage, the leading Internet site for womens 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.

Table of Contents

Expert Reviewers	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(4)
Your Body: Fat, Weight, and Muscle	5	(38)
Calorie Burning: Myths and Truths About Metabolism	43	(21)
Weight Loss: Strategies, Supplements, Drugs, and Surgery	64	(47)
Nutrition: Diets, Food Labels, and Eating for Exercise	111	(43)
Cardio Exercise: Target Zones, Intervals, and Intensity	154	(37)
Strength Training: Sets, Reps, Routines, and Machines	191	(38)
Getting Your Money's Worth: Fitness Equipment, Gadgets, and Trainers	229	(26)
How Exercise Affects Your Health: Back Pain, Osteoporosis, Depression, and More	255	(31)
Mind-Body Exercise: Stretching, Yoga, and Pilates	286	(21)
Pregnancy: Prenatal Fitness and Postpartum Weight Loss	307	(11)
Where to Go from Here	318	(2)
Sources	320	(17)
Index	337