Author: COOPER, ROBERT K.
Title: Low-Fat Living
Description: Rodale Books. 1996. (ISBN: 9780875962955). Hardcover, 9.4 x 6.7 x 1.4 inches. Turn on the Fat-Burners for Longevity Energy Weight Loss Freedom from Disease. Many health and fitness books offer once-over-lightly health evaluations, giving general information about getting your lifestyle in order and toning up your body a bit. Because all of these books work from the same universe of information--"Aerobic exercise gives you a stronger heart!" and "Resistance training builds muscle tone!"--the only real difference is in how clearly the authors explain the basics and how appealing they make the information. Low-Fat Living gets high marks on both counts. If you're in moderately good shape and try to watch your diet, you're not going to learn anything new here. But if you've let your health slide and you're starting to see the detrimental effects of doing so, this book is as good as any to help you get on the right track. A cheerful, action-oriented program for lifestyle change is presented by the director of the Ann Arbor Center for Health and Fitness Excellence, who is aided by the author of America's New Low-Fat Cuisine. Reiterating that his Low-Fat Living Program is based on skillpower, not willpower, Cooper builds on the concept of switches, describing ten that turn on the body's fat burners (e.g. eating dinner early) and ten that turn off its fat makers (e.g. avoiding low-fiber meals and snacks). Throughout, the well-referenced text is brightened by numerous "Switchbreaks" sidebars advising specific tactics and lighthearted headings (e.g. "Send in the Subs"). Although exercise is well covered, and sleep and stress management get their due, the emphasis is on a diet which draws 20% of calories from fat. To this end, Cooper offers advice on grocery shopping, food preparation and dining out. Augmenting the text are original and imaginative recipes for 14 lunches and dinners and for more than two dozen whole-grain yeast breads, all with nutritional analyses. I enjoyed this book immensely because I thought that Dr. Cooper presented some simple guidelines to reducing the fat intake in one diet as well as overall hints to improve one's lifestyle. What made the book most enjoyable for me was that he did a good job explaining how one's body stores fat and deals with fat, with case studies to back his explanations. Understanding how my body works gave me greater insight into trying to live a low-fat life. In addition, I've tried some of the recipes in the book and what I've made so far was delicious. Don't take my positive words to mean that living low-fat is easy; it's not! I really have to motivate myself to eat low fat and excercise. Hardback - 1996 - good condition - - used books, secondhand books, out of print books, hard to find books, for sale, second-hand books, nonfiction, non-fiction books, college books, student books, first editions, signed copies, delivered world wide. Used: Acceptable.

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