The Fat-Free Truth: Real Answers to the FItness and Weight-Loss Questions You Wonder About Most [Paperback]

Suzanne Schlosberg (Author), Liz Neporent (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 4, 2005

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 America’s 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 Shape’s “Weight Loss Q&A,” the most popular column in the country’s largest fitness magazine. Liz fields weekly questions as the “Fit by Friday” columnist for iVillage, the leading Internet site for women’s 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.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Serious dieters are constantly assailed with contradictory information on the best way to lose weight. In this concise book, Neporent (The Ultimate Body; Buns of Steel; etc.) and Shape contributing editor Schlosberg use a Q&A format with 239 questions to broach this problem. They cover topics ranging from body fat, weight and muscle to nutrition, cardiovascular exercise, strength training, "mind-body" exercise, prenatal fitness and postpartum weight loss. Each question gets a "short answer" and then a longer explanation, backed by research. For those who want to purchase equipment to use at home, there’s a chapter on getting your money’s worth with fitness equipment. Readers who travel often will find information on how to stay in shape when they’re without equipment. Those who have "gym phobia" will find tips on learning the ropes and understanding gym etiquette. The authors’ sense of humor makes reading many of the answers fun and informative—their tone is upbeat and chatty, but still intelligent (e.g., when answering the "how fattening is alcohol?" question, they respond, "they don’t call ’em ‘beer bellies’ for nothing"). This simple, straightforward book covers almost anything readers would want to know about exercise, diet and nutrition, and should appeal to people at all fitness levels.
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Serious dieters are constantly assailed with contradictory information on the best way to lose weight. In this concise book, Neporent (The Ultimate Body; Buns of Steel; etc.) and Shape contributing editor Schlosberg use a Q&A format with 239 questions to broach this problem. They cover topics ranging from body fat, weight and muscle to nutrition, cardiovascular exercise, strength training, "mind-body" exercise, prenatal fitness and postpartum weight loss. Each question gets a "short answer" and then a longer explanation, backed by research. For those who want to purchase equipment to use at home, there’s a chapter on getting your money’s worth with fitness equipment. Readers who travel often will find information on how to stay in shape when they’re without equipment. Those who have "gym phobia" will find tips on learning the ropes and understanding gym etiquette. The authors’ sense of humor makes reading many of the answers fun and informative—their tone is upbeat and chatty, but still intelligent (e.g., when answering the "how fattening is alcohol?" question, they respond, "they don’t call ’em ‘beer bellies’ for nothing"). This simple, straightforward book covers almost anything readers would want to know about exercise, diet and nutrition, and should appeal to people at all fitness levels.
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Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Mariner Books; None edition (January 4, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0618310738
• ISBN-13: 978-0618310739
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,730,809 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical no-nonsense advice, February 14, 2005

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No matter whether you're struggling with your weight or just trying to improve your fitness level. This book is for you. Informative, no-nonsense, practical advice from these two highly qualified fitness experts guides you out of the ever so confusing maze of weight-loss and fitness.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best book I ve read yet on weight loss, July 1, 2006

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This book compares all the programs and all the different exercise routines and uses actual tests of the diets and excercise programs for evaluation. It is cross referenced, so the reader can check the facts for themselves. I have learned more from this book than any of the other weight loss and diet books I have ever read. The great part is they are not pushing some particular program, just giving you the facts about all the programs. To top it all off, I bought the book for 2 cents used from Amazon. One of the best reads on diet and exercise yet.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great info in a useful format, February 14, 2005

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At first I wanted to see a review before I bought this book. Then I decided I was really curious about the information and since the book was published this year I wanted to see the most current information on fitness topics. I have been using the workout log by one of the authors for two years so I decided to go ahead and buy it. I'm glad I did, the book is full of good information in an easy to read format. I think it's like fitness 201 - it's more than just the basics but it's not over the top and I like that they include information in case you want to find out more about a particular topic.