Abs Diet Ultimate Nutrition Handbook: Your Reference Guide to Thousands of Foods, and How Each One Shapes Your Body [Paperback]

David Zinczenko (Author), Ted Spiker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 22, 2009

Hundreds of Quick-and-Easy  Nutrition Secrets for a Firm, Flat Stomach

Lose Up to 20 Pounds of Fat in Just 6 Weeks Without Ever Feeling Hungry!

 

Now, David Zinczenko, best-selling author and editor-in-chief of Men’s Health, has collected the most essential, up-to-date nutrition information in the world, and distilled it down to an easy-to-use, breakthrough manual. The Abs Diet Ultimate Nutrition Handbook will arm you with the nutritional information, guidance, and secrets that will give you the body you want, the stomach you want, and the life you want.

 

Discover the secrets to staying lean for life and building the 6-pack of your dreams—all while eating what you want, when you want. Just learn the secret to making the smartest nutrition decisions, no matter where you are. You’ll discover:

· Hundreds of tips on buying, preparing, and even ordering the best meals, and how to make those meals work for your body—not against it.
· Scores of new recipes including dozens of muscle-building, fat-burning desserts!
· Two super-efficient, proven new workouts, plus two bonus abs moves that will sculpt your stomach in no time.
· A 14-day eating plan that will start stripping away flab and showing off your abs—in just days!

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About the Author

DAVID ZINCZENKO, editor-in-chief of Men’s Health magazine, is one of America’s leading experts on health and fitness. He lives in New York City and Allentown, Pennsylvania.

TED SPIKER, an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Florida, is a contributing editor to Men’s Health. His work has also been published in Fortune; O, The Oprah Magazine; InStyle; Sports Illustrated Women; Writer’s Digest; Adventure Sports; and more. He currently resides in Gainesville, Florida.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Books; 1 edition (December 22, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1605296945
• ISBN-13: 978-1605296944
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #165,051 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #46 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Exercise & Fitness > Ab Workouts

More About the Author

DAVID ZINCZENKO, SVP/Editor-in-Chief of Men's Health magazine and Editorial Director of Women's Health magazine, is the author of New York Times bestsellers The Abs Diet and The Abs Diet for Women. Once an overweight child, Zinczenko has become one of the nation's leading experts on health and fitness. He is a regular contributor to the Today show and has appeared on Oprah, Good Morning America, Primetime Live, 20/20, The Rachael Ray Show, and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eating Out Tonight? Eat These And Weep!, December 21, 2008

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This review is from: The Abs Diet Ultimate Nutrition Handbook: Your Reference Guide to Thousands of Foods, and How Each One Shapes Your Body (Hardcover)

From: www.BasilAndSpice.com
Author & Book Views On A Healthy Life!

It's the weekend. Not many feel like shopping and then preparing dinner, opting for a quick bite out instead. Watch what you're putting into your mouth, it could end up on your waist! David Zinczenko, author of The Abs Diet Ultimate Nutrition Handbook includes an entire chapter titled, "The 20 Worst Foods Ever!" Eat these and Weep.

1. Fettucine Alfredo--worth up to 1,000 calories and 90 grams of fat. Order instead, whole-grain pasta with marinara.

2. Hardee's Monster Thickburger--sounds great guys, but can you afford almost 1,500 calories and 107 grams of fat?

3. Creme-Filled Doughnut With Chocolate Icing--my husband used to eat two of these every morning before work, each weighs in at 250 calories, 9 grams of fat--saturated and trans.

4. Cinnabon Classic--800 calories and 32 grams of fat; if you just can't pass it up, do like David and split it four ways.

5. Deep-Fried Twinkies or Oreos--I've never even eaten these! Avoid deep-fried foods in general. A Twinkie usually contains 150 calories/5 grams of fat. Deep frying triples the cals.

6. Cheese Fries with Gravy--1,000+ calories, contains partially hydrogenated oil. Eat a corn chip with salsa, is my quick fix.

7. Soda--the scourge of the easy-access generation, it's called "pop" where I grew up. A typical 32oz. cola is around 300 calories. Hint--drink water.

8. Bloomin' Onion--2,200 calories for an appetizer! Opt for a house salad.

9. Spinach Dip and Chips or Bread--spinach and artichokes themselves are nutritionally sound, but the cheese base of the dip jumps of the cals to around 140 for a 1oz serving.

10. Pork Rinds--this is fried pig skin and 1oz is worth 150cals, 10 grams of fat, and 500mg sodium.

11. Potpie--my kids love these, but I've searched the stores over, and the options are either loaded with fat (30g) and calories (500+) per serving, or hydrogenated oils are used for preparation.

12. Sausage or Hot Dog--three hot dogs at the average ballpark is 900 calories, and that's without the beer! They also are full of nitrites.

13. Pizza Hut Stuffed-Crust Meat Lover's Pizza--one slice equals 520 calories and 29 grams of fat. Half of the pizza is 2,000 calories. Since pizza is a Friday night special for everyone in my neighborhood, shoot for the lighter version of regular pizza, light on the cheese, add some veggies, skip the meat. I like thin crispy crust or whole wheat.

14. Cheesecake--a large piece tops out at 700 calories. If you're eating out, try the new trend called mini-indulgences.

15. Movie-Theater Popcorn--with the melted butter and mindless-consuming you may eat 1,500 calories/100 grams of fat.

16. Frosting--do not lick the bowl! Or eat it by the spoonful! The prepared versions from the grocery store contain trans fats (to keep it from melting) and a whole lot of sugar. Mr. Zinczenko adds that one or two licks are OK, a kid at heart!

17. McDonald's Chocolate Triple Thick Shake--600 calories, fat, sugar, high-fructose corn syrup. Try a homemade smoothie at home: frozen strawberries/ice cubes, soy/fat-free milk, other fresh fruits. Blend and drink! Even kids like this!

18. Chicken Wings with Blue Cheese Dressing--consider dropping the dressing, and the butter the wings are dipped into. If possible, don't even eat the deep-fried wings. Order grilled chicken breast instead.

19. Chips with Olestra--David states, "...products made with olestra also deprive the body of vitamins that require fat for absorption, plus they have some ugly GI side effects. Blech."

20. Your Calorie Kryptonite--the food you're always drawn to. For me that's the chocolate chip cookie! Enjoy your favorite food with a weekly "cheat meal."

The new Abs Diet Ultimate Nutrition Handbook offers tips, tricks, recipes and studies that show people on the move, which is most of us, how to cut calories and fat.

5 Stars

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, insightful "Diet" book, December 9, 2008

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J. Gramc "Honest Reviewer" (Lyndhurst, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Abs Diet Ultimate Nutrition Handbook: Your Reference Guide to Thousands of Foods, and How Each One Shapes Your Body (Hardcover)

I'm hesitant to call this a diet book because this plan includes a very wide range of different foods that you can eat and still fall within its guidelines. Perhaps my favorite thing about it though is how it explains exactly why you should it what it says. It explains the health benefits of each of the types of food, what they do and why its important to throw a lot of common misconceptions out the window, ie. "Can't lose weight while eating foods with fat" It explains why fats are important and how its all a matter of eating the right kinds of fats and right balance of carbs and protein. Its a very easy read too, and easy to understand.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the Abs Diet Ultimate Nutrition Handbook, November 23, 2008

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Louise Percival (Oshkosh WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Abs Diet Ultimate Nutrition Handbook: Your Reference Guide to Thousands of Foods, and How Each One Shapes Your Body (Hardcover)

I LOVED the author's way with words-using humor and facts together. He was down to earth and even medical issues made sense. I like the thinking of this book and putting it together with the "eat right every time" and "six meals for six pack abs" is the ultimate goal for results. I learned new statistics and facts about nutrition that I did not realize even after years of trying multiple ways of dieting. I totally recommend this book!