High-Performance Nutrition: The Total Eating Plan to Maximum Your Workout (Paperback)

by Susan M. Kleiner (Author), Maggie Greenwood-Robinson (Author) "Are you "going strong"?..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
Couch potatoes won't warm up to this enthusiastic fitness and diet advice, but active, interested readers will find plenty of up-to-date information about the effect of nutrition on muscle strength, endurance and performance here. Kleiner, a nutritionist who has worked with professional sports teams, and Greenwood-Robinson, co-author of Lean Bodies and other fitness books, cite current research to back up their position that a high "good" (complex) carbohydrate, low-fat diet provides the energy to work out hard while building body muscle. Chapters on vitamin, herbal and fiber supplements are comprehensive and reasonable. Nutritional needs of vegetarian athletes, as well as pregnant and older exercisers, are also addressed. Charts illustrate such topics as best fast-food bets or the healthful phytochemicals found naturally in foods. A 30-day diet plan based on 65% carbohydrates, 15% protein and 20% fat includes 10 main-course recipes, e.g., Asparagus and Shrimp Stir-Fry with Gingered Rice. Readers at high fitness levels will find this valuable reading during exercise breaks.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Description
If you exercise, you need cutting-edge information on diet and nutrition to get the best results. Whether you want to achieve peak performance, improve your energy, increase endurance, lose fat, tone muscle, increase your body's natural ability to fight disease, or slow the aging process, High-Performance Nutrition offers the key to success. Nationally known expert Susan Kleiner shows you how to eat to get more value from any type of exercise——aerobics, strength training, endurance training, cross training, or recreational sports. Her unique nutrition program features:

• A proven nutritional formula for a fast increase in muscle tone and strength
• An easy-to-follow 30-Day Menu Plan, including shopping tips and meal preparation strategies
• Delicious recipes for "One-Minute Breakfasts" and "Dynamite Dinners"
• The latest information on supplements, food additives, sugar and fat replacements, sports drinks, and vegetarian diets

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Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (April 3, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471115207
• ISBN-13: 978-0471115205
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #329,120 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One source, April 5, 2000

By A Customer

There are enough books on nutrition to make your head spin. This book breaks it down nicely and gives you all the information you'll need. It helped me to put together a great nutritional program to help me lose the fat and gain lean muscle. I'd recommend it to anyone who'd like to change their lifestyle for the better.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars High Performance Nutrition: The Total Eating Plan to Maximize Your Workout, February 21, 2007

By	M. Jones (Flemington, NJ) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As a personal trainer, this is nothing earth shattering that I haven't seen before. For someone looking for all the information under one cover, it's good.

60 of 97 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Misleading, Dangerous!!, February 17, 2002

By	Mr. Jacob Cohen (USA) - See all my reviews

This book not only consists of bad nutritional advice but dangerous suggestions. Ms. Kleiner calls herself a nutrition consultant, but believes that peppermint patties are a good way to end a meal and that blue sports drinks are good for you. This book not only can kill a hypoglycemic with its high-carbohydrate suggestions, but is proof of how ignorant the educated can be. Ms. Kleiner and Ms. Robinson are not herbalists, yet they discount every herb that Eastern civilizations have thrived on for thousands of years- while ignoring the fact that prescribed drugs kill 100,000 individuals a year in this country alone. The authors easily condemn Ginseng, a Chinese adaptogen used for thousands of years, and sanction the use of Ephedra which has been shown to be life threatening in many cases. The authors concern themselves with the illusion that blue sports drinks, candy, and refined carbos are the best fuel for a healthy body, but they are themselves a product of an ignorant, drug-generated-for-profit country. Too bad their illusion is in print for the uninformed and unaware. As the old saying goes, don't believe all that you read- especially this book. Maybe the authors should go back to school and learn something and then attempt to take people's lives and diets in their hands. Wasted trees to make this one.