The Abs Diet Eat Right Every Time Guide by David Zinczenko

"The Abs Diet Eat Right Every Time Guide" by David Zinczenko, Editor-in-Chief of "Men's Health" and the author of the New York Times bestseller "The Abs Diet," is a good little book to assist with making the right food choices. If you are not familiar with Zinczenko, you are probably familiar with his newer book series. The "Eat This, Not That" series has become very popular, including his newest addition to the series, "Drink This, Not That." This book is a portable companion to Zinczenko's larger "The Abs Diet" written with Ted Spiker, and it is similar to the "Eat This" books in that it provides "on the go" food choices and has parts that show which foods to eat over other choices. This was the original "Eat This, Not That" guide.

There is a quick introduction regarding the Abs Diet. Then there is a two page Abs Diet cheat sheet, and a one page success story. Chapter one then discusses why your weight is not your fault. Enemies such as high-fructose corn syrup, tans fat, saturated fat, and refined carbohydrates are discussed. There is also a little on your metabolism and your friends protein, polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats, fiber-rich carbohydrates and calcium.

Chapter two covers the Abs Diet power twelve. The twelve principles that make up the diet or eating program. (12 main foods or food groups) The chapter goes over these and why they are what you should eat.

Chapter three focuses on the six steps to lifelong leanness: Eating six meals a day, eating around the Abs Diet Power 12, Drink smoothies regularly, stop counting, watch what you drink, and go ahead, cheat. Chapter four then lists an Abs Diet grocery list to help you shop for healthy foods. I liked that he includes a short bit on reading labels.

Chapter five has 25 Abs Diet breakfasts. Chapter six contains 25 lunches, and Chapter seven has the dinners. Easy, quick dishes with the basic nutrient values included. Chapter eight has 27 smoothie and snack recopies, while chapter nine focuses on eating out and provides information on the foods you will find in many restaurants, including fast foods. Chapter ten contains some guidelines to survive the holidays.

Chapter eleven has a little on working out, and then the book concludes with a few frequently asked questions. The book contains some good information regarding food choices, and if you follow "The Abs Diet," it is a good companion. However, it is not as engaging as the "Eat This" books. This book has no pictures, no color, etc., like those books have. This book contains solid information and is a good guide, it's just not as attractive a package as the others. If you have all the newer ones, you might not find this one as useful, however, if you only have the original "Abs Diet" book, this is a good companion.

Alain Burrese, J.D. is a performance and personal development expert who teaches how to live, take action, and get things done through the Warrior's Edge. Alain combines his military, martial art, and Asian experiences with his business, law, and conflict resolution education into a powerful way of living with balance, honor, and integrity. He teaches how to use the Warrior's Edge to Take Action and Achieve Remarkable Results. Alain is the author of Hard-Won Wisdom From The School Of Hard Knocks, the DVDs Hapkido Hoshinsul, Streetfighting Essentials, Hapkido Cane, the Lock On Joint Locking series, and numerous articles and reviews. You can read more articles and reviews and see clips of his DVDs as well as much more at http://www.burrese.com/ and http://www.aikiproductions.com/

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A Common Sense Guide to Weight Loss (Part 2)

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 Portion Control - Lots of people can't lose weight even when they  think they are eating healthy because they simply don't realize how much food they eat. If you're only eating healthy food but you're eating triple the amount that you should be eating you won't lose weight. Portion control is crucial to weight loss success. Keeping a food diary is a great way to keep track of how much food you actually eat every day.

Breaking bad habits isn't easy - If you have battled your weight for many years you have probably picked up some very bad eating habits. Giving in to cravings, denying yourself meals, picking the wrong types of foods to eat or eating when you're happy or sad or bored or lonely are all bad habits that people pick up through the years. It's tough to break bad habits.

Not exercising - If you think that you don't need to exercise to lose weight if you watch your calorie intake, think again. Controlling your calorie intake will help you maintain your weight but if you want to lose weight the only way to burn calories is through exercise. Adding a few aerobic workouts that last more than 30 minutes per week can make a big difference in how much weight you lose. You have to be committed to changing your behavior for good; not just for a few weeks or a few months if you want to lose weight and keep it off.

COMMON DIETING PITFALLS AND HOW TO AVOID THEM

 Dieting is no fun. Most people will fall off their diets within a week. Those that don't fall in that first week usually fall within three weeks. That's because most people set themselves up to fail when they start a new diet by falling into one or more of the most common pitfalls.Recognizing these common dieting pitfalls and how to avoid them can mean the difference between staying on track with your diet or falling back into your old, unhealthy eating patterns.

Making radical changes to your eating habits - This happens all the time on diets, especially fad diets. If you go on a diet where you can only eat fruit, or only eat protein, or you must cut out all of one of kind of food it will be very difficult for you to stay on the diet. When you make changes to the way you eat you should make them gradually. If you make an extreme change to the way you eat and you do it fast then you will deprived and you will start to crave foods, making it more likely that you will go off your diet.

This is a series of articles to help you change your life for you and don't forget to look out for the next part in this series.

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The Ultimate Weight Solution Food Guide by Dr Phil McGraw

"The Ultimate Weight Solution Food Guide" by Dr. Phil McGraw came out to capitalize on Dr. Phil's bestselling "The Ultimate Weight Solution." The bulk of the book, from page 149 through page 707 consists of charts regarding nutritional content of food. The first 148 pages contain some common sense guides for losing weight and maintaining that weight loss. It's a handy reference for those who want to know the basics in the foods they are eating.

While the book is normal trade paper back size, it's not so compact as to easily fit inside a pocket, a purse, or another way to carry along with you. At a little over 700 pages, it's not something you'll carry around with you, even though there are numerous fast food entries. It's a book to keep handy near the kitchen.

After a quick introduction where Dr. Phil encourages you to get excited and then outlines the scope of the book, he launches into chapter one where he has you put your weight on project status. This is where you determine where you are at, create an environment to help you achieve your goals, prioritize exercise into your life, and create accountability. It's a good basic plan toward weight goals. Chapter two contains a three stage plan to what Dr. Phil calls weight loss freedom. There is a 14-day rapid start plan, the continuation plan, and then maintenance. Chapter three has menus for the stages. The menus are contain pretty basic dishes and guidelines.

Chapter four has some behavioral, nutritional restaurant, travel, vacation, social, and stress-eating strategies to help you with your weight loss and healthy eating. Finally, chapter five teaches you how to use the food guide that takes up the rest of the book. Besides telling you what you'll find in the guide, there are some good tips on healthy eating in this chapter.

The guide itself is basically a huge chart of thousands of entries Each entry lists the following: Serving, Calories, Protein, Carbohydrates, Fat/Saturated Fat, Cholesterol, Fiber, Sugars, and Sodium. Essentials the main things most dieters want to know about their foods. For example, the entry for a frozen, ready to bake, apple turnover lists: 1 serving would be one turnover, 284 calories, 4 g Protein, 31 g carbohydrates, 16 grams fat with 4 of those grams saturated fat, na for cholesterol, 2 grams fiber, 11 grams sugars, and 176 mg sodium.

Again, there are a lot of entries here. However, they are not as easy to find as I'd like. Part of this is because foods are divided into what are called high-response cost, high-yield foods and low-response cost, low-yield foods. So you can find beef entries on page 150 and the following pages and on page 418 and the pages that follow. So first you need to look in the contents and determine where your desired food is, and then go look through the food guide sections to find it. So there is a lot of information here, but it is not the easiest to find. Additionally, there are entries where you might have to guess what you have and how it compares to the entries in the book.

Bottom line, for the price, this book has a lot of listings and information, but you do have to work a bit to find it. I'd say a five star book for the amount of listings, but three stars for organization, so that's how I came up with the four star rating. It you have a collection of health eating books, this is not a bad addition. If you want a food guide in your kitchen, this is not bad either. You'll just have to get used to how to find the listings you need and then make the choices that best suit you. And of course, there is some good general information on diet, losing weight, and healthy eating in the first five chapters.

Alain Burrese, J.D. is a performance and personal development expert who teaches how to live, take action, and get things done through the Warrior's Edge. Alain combines his military, martial art, and Asian experiences with his business, law, and conflict resolution education into a powerful way of living with balance, honor, and integrity. He teaches how to use the Warrior's Edge to Take Action and Achieve Remarkable Results. Alain is the author of Hard-Won Wisdom From The School Of Hard Knocks, the DVDs Hapkido Hoshinsul, Streetfighting Essentials, Hapkido Cane, the Lock On Joint Locking series, and numerous articles and reviews. You can read more articles and reviews and see clips of his DVDs as well as much more at http://www.burrese.com/ and http://www.aikiproductions.com/.

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Introduction to the Paleolithic (Paleo) Diet - Your Guide to Living Simple and Healthy

Everyone has heard their fair share of jokes about cavemen. There have even been television commercials and sitcoms based on the stereotypical image of cavemen. Most people think of the cavemen as a figure of the distant past that has nothing to do with life in the modern world. This is why it comes as quite a shock to many people that the genetics making up the human body today were actually developed during the Stone Age; the era of the caveman.

This theory regarding the historic evolution of human genetics is the root of the Paleolithic Diet. This diet is also known as the Paleo diet. Its founders believe that it takes hundreds of thousands of years for human genetics to evolve to accommodate dietary changes that occur over time. If this is true, then the genes inside our bodies right now were established based on the diet consumed in the Stone Age.

There are some signs that this theory is correct. For instance, many people have trouble digesting wheat and other grain products today. This is likely due to the fact that wheat was only brought into the human diet about 10,000 years ago. If it does take hundreds of thousands of years for the human body to evolve to operate with new food sources, there just hasn't been enough time for the human body to learn how to process wheat.

The Paleo diet encourages followers to understand what their bodies were designed to operate on and stick with those foods. That happens to be foods that were consumed by cavemen in the Paleolithic era, or the Stone Age.

So, what did cavemen eat?

It basically comes down to lean meats that could be hunted and fresh fruits, berries, vegetables, nuts and seeds that could be gathered.

One rule of thumb to keep in mind is that anything packaged in a box or bag is off limits for this diet. The Stone Age hunters and gatherers found their food fresh and consumed it fresh. They did not add preservatives to their fresh produce and they did not pump their wild animals with hormones.

Although many people believe all dairy is off limits with this diet, you can consume a limited quantity of eggs. The Paleo cavemen did enjoy eggs, but not to the extent that we consume them in the modern Western world. Protein sources should be more focused on lean meats, lean poultry, and some organ meats such as tongue and liver.

Consuming a variety of lean meat is the key to remaining full and satisfied on the Paleo diet. You should combine the meat with a variety of fresh produce as well as nuts and seeds as a source of healthy fat. Nuts have actually proven to cut the risk of heart disease and lower cholesterol. They can even reduce your risk of developing some types of cancer, including breast cancer.

What is Your Goal?

When deciding what to eat on the Paleo diet, you have to think about what you are trying to accomplish. If you just want to reduce your risk of serious disease and live a well balanced, healthy lifestyle, you should consume a healthy mix of all foods allowed on the plan.

If your goal is to lose weight, then you should watch your intake of nuts and seeds while being extra vigilant to remove all fat from your meats. The fat in these foods is healthy, but too much could stand in your way of losing weight.

When in doubt about a food, think about how cavemen lived and ask if that food could have been found in their forests and fields. If not, then you probably shouldn't be eating it, either.

Sugar and artificial sweeteners is a good example of this. Cavemen did not have access to sugary, so any sugary food is off limits. Today, there is a big debate over whether sugar or artificial sweeteners is better for the body. The cavemen would argue that none of it is healthy, including syrup.

In general, sugary, starchy, and dairy foods were not consumed during the Paleo era.

The Virtues of Protein

The Paleo diet is very different from the way most people eat today. It does require some adjustment, since many of the tasty foods available today are not acceptable on the plan. Yet, there are enough benefits to following a high protein diet rich in vegetables and fruits that most people adjust and feel better than ever on the diet.

Studies have shown that a high protein diet can take up to fifteen pounds off of the average person. That is a fifteen pound weight loss without exercise or counting every calorie that crosses your lips. If your goal is to lose weight, then you can add an active lifestyle and a bit of exercise to boost your weight loss for even greater success.

If you just want to learn to eat healthy so you live longer, then following the Paleo diet is definitely a step in the right direction.

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Eat This Not That Supermarket Survival Guide by David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding

"Eat This Not That Supermarket Survival Guide" is David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding's answer to shopping with their series of books on what they like to call "The No-Diet Weight Loss Solution." What they did for eating out with their first book, the Restaurant Survival Guide, they now do for the supermarket. It is a very handy little book to assist you as your walk the aisles filling your shopping cart.

After a short introduction regarding food and what the book can do for you, Chapter one covers basic rules for your trip to the supermarket. Rules like working the edges and learning the lingo. This chapter includes 11 secrets the food industry doesn't want you to know and the 20 worst packaged foods in America. The worst happens to be Marie Callender's Creamy Parmesan Chicken Pot Pie.

Chapter two focuses on the produce aisle and how to supercharge your meals. Good little primer on fruits and vegetables. From there, we go to the meat and fish counters in chapter three. This is a short chapter to help you make sense of meat. Chapter four then covers the refrigerator. This is the first chapter that starts to divide foods into "eat this and not that" categories. For example, on the Deli Meats page, you find Hormel Natural Choice Carved Chicken Breast on the "eat this" page, and Oscar Mayer Deli Fresh Grilled Chicken Breast Strips on the "not that" page. (Calories, fat, and sodium are all listed, and lower on the first choice) Some of the other categories in this chapter include hot dogs and sausage, cheese, and yogurt.

Chapter five is the chapter to review when it is time to stock your pantry staples. Categories include: grains, rice sides, dry noodles, bread loaves, breakfast breads and pastries, cereals, condiments, nut and seed butters, jellies, jams, preserves, pasta sauces and much more.

Sure, snacks and sweets are not top choices for anyone on a diet, but if you are going to eat them, chapter six will help you make smarter choices. Some good advice on snacks here, and then categories contrasting corn chips, potato chips, dips, pretzels, snack mixes, crackers, popcorn, cookies, and much more.

In the seventh chapter we get to the freezer section. Contrasted foods include ice cream, frozen yogurt, sorbet, frozen pies, frozen pizza, meat substitutes, and other foods found in the frozen aisles.

Chapter eight covers drinks. Juice, smoothies, shakes, tea, milk, beer, and a few others are covered here. I know an entire book just came out on what to drink, so this chapter is just a teaser compared to what the book contains. This is still a good primer on what you are buying to drink.

The final chapter, nine, provides you with a guide to save money while shopping. It contains a couple of tips and then ten popular dishes that you can make at home to save money and calories. The book then concludes with a food additive glossary.

I really like this series of books. They are small, so you can carry with you, colorful so easy to read and use, and packed with information. Sure, not every single food you might find is covered, but enough are listed to make you a savvy shopper. By understanding the differences between the eat this foods and the not that foods, you will then be able to read labels and make healthier choices even when not found in this guide. Reading this book also provides a lot of good information about eating healthy, and after reading it you'll be much better prepared to hit the supermarket and fill your cart with healthy selections.

Alain Burrese, J.D. is a performance and personal development expert who teaches how to live, take action, and get things done through the Warrior's Edge. Alain combines his military, martial art, and Asian experiences with his business, law, and conflict resolution education into a powerful way of living with balance, honor, and integrity. He teaches how to use the Warrior's Edge to Take Action and Achieve Remarkable Results. Alain is the author of Hard-Won Wisdom From The School Of Hard Knocks, the DVDs Hapkido Hoshinsul, Streetfighting Essentials, Hapkido Cane, the Lock On Joint Locking series, and numerous articles and reviews. You can read more articles and reviews and see clips of his DVDs as well as much more at http://www.burrese.com/ and http://www.aikiproductions.com/

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