In Fitness And In Health [Paperback]

Dr. Philip Maffetone (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 18, 2009

In the new 5th edition of “In Fitness and In Health,” Dr. Phil Maffetone describes how to self-manage your own personal health-care program. For more than three decades, Dr. Maffetone has been treating and advising patients, coaching athletes, lecturing worldwide, and writing books about the importance of self-health care. This edition contains new information about organic foods, sunshine, gut health, and more. With this valuable book, you'll learn the real truth about optimizing your diet for physical and mental performance and making healthy dietary choices, obtaining the best nutrition from real food, avoiding disease, learning to listen to your body, the dangers of common dietary supplements, fat-burning exercise for weight loss and health, recognizing and eliminating sources of stress, increasing energy levels for all aspects of life, using music to improve brain function and awareness, controlling inflammation and hormonal imbalance and much more.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Dr. Philip Maffetone is an internationally recognized researcher, educator, clinician and author in the field of food and nutrition, exercise and sports medicine, and biofeedback. During his 30-year career, which included 20 years in private practice, Dr. Maffetone has been a respected pioneer in the field of complementary medicine, bringing the latest advances to healthcare professionals around the world. He was presented with the prestigious Statuette award by the International Academy for Child Brain Development, named coach of the year by Triathlete Magazine, and honored by Inside Triathlon magazine as one of the top 20 most influential people in endurance sports worldwide. Dr. Maffetone continues to lecture on diet, nutrition and stress management, and teaches biofeedback. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including those published in German, Italian, Korean, Swedish and Japanese. As a songwriter, Dr. Maffetone has two music CDs of his original music.

Product Details

• Paperback: 364 pages
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing; 5 Rev Exp edition (May 18, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1439232822
• ISBN-13: 978-1439232828
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #92,217 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Book Got Me Back on Track!, May 23, 2009

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bill katovsky (san francisco, california USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: In Fitness And In Health (Paperback)

As someone trying to reclaim his former health fitness when I was a multisport jock, I ran into a series of roadblocks-- illness, injury, being just on the other side of 50--and I grew increasingly frustrated by my lack of progress. The other fitness books weren't helping me either; they were all too formulaic or filled with training tables. Where Maffetone's book differs--and why I find his information and advice a genuine gold mine-- is his approach to the human body as a holistic enterprise, beginning with one's diet. With a mixture of common-sense observations, insightful recommendations, and guidance about exercise and nutrition, this book will remain my "go-to" book for years to come. I learned stuff about how running shoes cause foot and knee injuries, why wheat is bad for you, burning fat properly through slower aerobic workouts, and so on. I have three words for this book: "Thank you, Phil."

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Guidebook for a Lifetime of Health, June 10, 2009

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Dr. Mitchell Thrower - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In Fitness And In Health (Paperback)

As a triathlete, I constantly struggle to eat and exercise in a way that optimizes my racing time. In a world of conflicting advice about fats and carbs, aerobic and anerobic, I welcomed In Fitness and in Health as a sane guidebook. Dr. Maffetone offers real methods to attain and maintain health, and stories about real people whom he has helped to take charge of their health and gain better lives.

In Fitness and in Health takes a novel approach to wellness, suggesting that it is up to each of us to take charge of the long-term care of our bodies. Dr. Maffetone advocates that medicine can help cure disease, but that we can prevent it. In a health book unlike all others I have read, he uses a simple formula of diet, exercise and lifestyle management to create and maintain optimal health and fitness.

Some of what Dr. Maffetone advocates surprised and enlightened me. He cuts through the confusion of Atkins and South Beach to explain what foods are truly bad for us, and that some foods we've been taught to avoid are actually highly beneficial for health. Dr. Maffetone looks at food as something to be enjoyed, and diet as a means to optimize our bodies' functionality. Followers of his diet system won't find themselves limited, but liberated.

Dr. Maffetone's wise words about disease and injury prevention have given me the tools to continue a life of racing, problem-free, for decades to come. His chapters about stress remind me that a too-hectic life is as bad for the body as a poor diet, and his stress-management techniques help me take control. His ideas about increasing energy levels are applicable to training, work, and life in general. I highly recommend this book.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great health book for everyone, June 12, 2009

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Coralee Thompson (Philly, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In Fitness And In Health (Paperback)

As a family doctor committed to true disease prevention in myself and for my patients, In Fitness and In Health has been my main source of useful information about nutrition, lifestyle, and exercise. I first learned of Dr. Maffetone's work in 1997. From that time on, his health message changed my life and the lives of hundreds of my patients. This 5th edition of In Fitness and In Health contains even more important and practical information and spans all the major issues of "self health". With the tremendous health care crisis humans face, Dr. Maffetone astutely points out that the real solution to broken health care systems begins with each individual--taking responsibility for their own well being. Fortunately, he provides the inspiration and the information to make it real for anyone ready to take on living everyday toward superb health and fitness. Bravo.