Books : The Diet Detective's Count Down: 7500 of Your Favorite Food Counts with Their Exercise Equivalents for Walking, Running, Biking, Swimming, Yoga, and Dance
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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.23
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Fireside
Manufacturer: Fireside
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: January 02, 2007
Publishing house: Fireside
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THE COST OF A CALORIE REVEALED
- CALORIE SHOPPING with EXERCISE EQUIVALENTS -
The Diet Detective's Count Down Offers Readers Calories, Carbs, Fat and the Exercise Equivalents For More For Than 7,500 Foods(Walk, Run, Swim, Bike, Yoga, and Dance).
Ever find yourself debating whether or not to buy just one bag of chips? Or grab a little candy bar for the road? Consider this: what if the nutritional labels on your favorite foods spelled out exactly what you'd have to do to burn those calories?
Well, nutrition and public health advocate, Charles Stuart Platkin's new book, THE DIET DETECTIVE'S COUNT DOWN, is the very first of its kind that translates food into exercise, giving readers a tool for deciding what a calorie means and which calories are worth it.
THE DIET DETECTIVE'S COUNT DOWN lists more that 7,500 foods with exercise equivalents in minutes calculated using six forms of activity: WALKING, RUNNING, BIKING, SWIMMING, YOGA, AND DANCING. All this information is listed in an easy to view table format. The table also includes calories, fat and carbohydrates.
This is no ordinary diet book, it is a food fact bible giving readers tasty nuggets of information that make them think before they eat. Translating food into calorie counts isn't enough -- translating calorie counts into exercises makes clear the consequence each bite has on the waistline!
Examples of an Exercise Equivalent (The book contains more than 7500 listings in an easy to use table format w/ Calories, Carbs and Fat, walking, running, biking, swimming, yoga and dance):
- 1 double-stuffed Oreo cookie = 18 minutes of walking
- 1 handful of chips = 26 minutes of dancing
- 1 slice of chocolate cake = 48 minutes of biking
- 1 candy bar = 32 minutes of swimming
- 1 soda = 48 minutes of yoga
- 1 tablespoon of butter = 11 minutes of running
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This book helped to feel more comfortable about eating knowing what activity is required to burn off the food. It is not designed to find a short cut to losing weight, but it does show you how to eat sensible and know how much of a certain activity will be needed to burn off calories. This is a good way to get in your mind that it is okay to eat certain things, just be prepared to work it off. By telling you which activities will burn how many calories, it helps to plan workouts to be more effective. Some common food items were missing, but all in all it was helpful.
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This book had so many different types of food and places to eat food. The book was easy to use and fun!
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If you've ever wondered how far you're going to have to walk or run to use up the calories in the doughnut you just ate, this is the book for you. It is made up mostly of tables of the calorie content of various foods, and how far you would have to run, walk, etc, to use up the calories. The very first 18 pages give an excellent introduction to what is needed to lose weight. Your BMR is defined and discussed in considerable detail and a formula is given showing you how to calculate it. The author suggests that you keep a food diary and review it every so often; he also makes several suggestions for increasing your physical activity. As a fitness trainer and nutrition columnist, he is well-qualified to write such a book. The only slight problem with it is that it is not clear until near the end of the book that the numbers are based on a 155 pound person, and are different for people of different weight.
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This book was purchased as a gift. Recipient has used it to balance food intake and exercise, and has found it very helpful.
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My friend was looking for this book so I found it and ordered it. I was skeptical at very first but now I am glad I ordered it because I can look up a food and see if I really want to eat it or something else by how much walking (my choice of exercise) I have to do to work off the calories. It really comes in handy when I get a craving for the bad stuff like ice cream or mcdonald....
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