The Powerfood Nutrition Plan: The Guy's Guide to Getting Stronger, Leaner, Smarter, Healthier, Better Looking, Better Sex Food! [Paperback]

Susan Kleiner (Author), Jeff O'Connell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 30, 2006

The ultimate nutrition resource - presenting targeted meal plans for everything from weight loss to energy and memory gain--with sound advice to achieve the cut body and smoking sex life every guy wants.

This straightforward guide by well-known sports nutritionist Susan M. Kleiner shows men of all ages how to use food to improve every aspect of their lives. Kleiner whips up a recipe for success that works for everyone from seasoned athletes to newly reformed fast-food junkies.

Readers will find:

Pages of flavorful, varied meals--breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack menus for every guy, whether he's diabetic, athletic, overweight, or heart-health conscious

Practical and proven tips on the smart use of supplements

Cutting-edge information on the latest nutrition science, including life extending foods, dangerous trans fats, and important antioxidants

With menus for weight loss, muscle gain, extra energy and vitality, The PowerFood Nutrition Plan is for everyone who recognizes that our health and well being relies on the food we eat. Readers will discover that even small dietary changes can have a big impact.

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About the Author

SUSAN M. KLEINER, PHD, RD, FACN, CNS, is a noted sports nutritionist and head of the consulting company High Performance Nutrition. She has counseled elite athletes in all sports and has worked with the Seattle Supersonics and the nutrition superstore GNC. The author of five books, including Power Eating, considered the most complete how-to sports-nutrition guide for athletes and trainers, she lives in Mercer Island, Washington.

JEFF O'CONNELL is senior writer for Muscle & Fitness and a contributor to Men's Fitness, Flex, and other magazines.

Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Books (May 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594862354
• ISBN-13: 978-1594862359
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #54,334 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #67 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Men's Health

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely amazing! Could not be better!, August 27, 2008

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Daniel - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Powerfood Nutrition Plan: The Guy's Guide to Getting Stronger, Leaner, Smarter, Healthier, Better Looking, Better Sex Food! (Paperback)

I can't believe this book has such a low price. Fitness and nutrition is an area where you can easily spend a lot of money (coachs, nutritionist, gyms, special diets, equipment).

On the other side of the coin you can also spend a lot of money if you don't have a healthy lifestyle (doctors to treat diabetes, hypertension, heart disease).

Well, here is a guide that might very well save you tons of money and change your life for the better.

Just the first chapter of the book is worth its price, by far. In that chapter the author gives a general description of what an average guy would eat through out a complete day. As she describes this hypotetic guy's diet she explains what happens to your body at each stage, she explains all the mistakes we commonly make when eating.

In the second part of the first chapter she tells you what you could do instead during a complete day, she explains what you should eat, at what time, in what amounts and why.

Her explanation of the glygemic index and its relation to glucose levels opened a new world for me. I finally have come to understand why I was having terrible lows of energy during the day.

I believe those explanations would be enough to get you on the right track and start seeing results. With results I mean, more energy, less fat, better feeling in general.

She builds from there and each chapter is devoted to understanding what you need to do to achieve specific results. The last chapter is as good as the first one. It has a lot of tips on what you can do to improve your diet and how it can become part of the life of a very busy guy.

The advice in this book is thorough and most of the time she is on the right track. The only aspects I did't like was how she promoted milk, eggs, and soy. But I really don't blame her for that, since there is much controversy around dairy and soy.

There are books like The China Study that constitute a serious analysis of why certain very common foods are actually the cause for many of the health problems in the western world. So, basically when it comes to dairy and soy you should read both sides of the debate and make up your mind as what you think might be good for you.

Other than that, the book is just amazing, and I did't really mind much about her mention of dairy since she really doesn't talk too much about it.

It is clear to me that the author knows a lot about the scientific aspect of food, and some of her explanations go in that direction, still you don't feel it like a heavy read. So, I believe the tone of the book is perfect for an average guy who just wants to know what he should really eat, when, how, and in what amount.

The best book on nutrition I have seen so far!

I think if you read this one and The China Study, you will have almost all information needed to make a sound decision when thinking about your diet and your goals!

By the way there are tons of menus you can use. I really really liked that, because the books on nutrition I have seen have very poor menus or ideas to get you started.

I have to make something clear. I liked the China Study more for what it promotes than for what it forbides. According to the study you should eat tons of plants, fruits, vegetables. And even though the author of the China study promotes the elimination of animal protein from diet, he actually compromises and says if you want to eat animal protein, do it but still try to focus on eating a lot more vegetables. So, before anyone start a long debate here, I have to say I do eat dairy! Just that not in the amounts I used to! Which is by the way the advice given by the author of The Powerfood Nutrition Plan to lactose intolerant, to eat yougrth in small amounts.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book!!!, April 22, 2008

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Edwin K. Swaim - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Powerfood Nutrition Plan: The Guy's Guide to Getting Stronger, Leaner, Smarter, Healthier, Better Looking, Better Sex Food! (Paperback)

This book is flawless. I'm a personal trainer and it has been an invaluable resource in dealing with my clients' nutrition needs. Sometimes they need a little convincing when it comes to breaking some of their bad habits and this book explains it all in plain english, and the meal plans are fantastic.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Men's Health, March 23, 2007

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Paul D. Rockwood - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Powerfood Nutrition Plan: The Guy's Guide to Getting Stronger, Leaner, Smarter, Healthier, Better Looking, Better Sex Food! (Paperback)

A good book with very useful and mostly new information. It's a massive book and well worth the price. There are a variety of week-long meal plans. Something to reference again and again.