Combat Fat!

by Stewart Smith, Rosemarie Alfieri, Andrew Flach

More than half of all Americans are overweight and 24 percent are considered obese by the government's standards. Between 1998 and 1999 obesity rose six percent, affecting all regions of the country... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578260892
• ISBN13: 9781578260898
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Hatherleigh Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

It works

This is an awesome program. I have been confused by the complexity of other programs. I read the entire book in one day and found the advice straightforward and easy to implement in my everyday life. I am losing weight and getting fitter than I have been in years.

No Nonsense Fitness.

If you want a no nonsense fitness plan to follow then this book is for you! This book contains a large menu section that covers breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. I really liked the fact that it listed the recipes for many of the meals. There are three levels of exercise plans including stretches. Absolutely everything is spelled out for you, there is no guesswork. You can say goodbye to calorie counting, pre-packaged meals and supplements. The bottom line is: This book works.

Simple and Effective

An excellent book! I found this to be the most comprehensive, informative and easy to understand health-related book I've ever read. It refocuses the long-time emphasis away from weight control and calorie counting to the real health problem facing millions of Americans: Fat. It clearly defines the problem and the best way to tackle it. Not only does it include lots of exercises designed to fight fat, it also devotes many pages to nutrition, diet, menus and the psychology of improving over-all health by reducing the percentage of fat in ones body. It's the kind of book you can continually refer to. It's already helped me look and feel better. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to avoid fad diets and deceptive weight-loss schemes.

Talk of the Nation

I heard about the book on NPR's Talk of the Nation. I am usually a sceptic about these kinds of books, but it since it is based on the Surgeon General's approach I am going to give it a chance. It is very common sense in its approach and is filled with tips, shortcuts, and ideas to make weight loss easier to incorporate into my life. Nicely done and recommended.

Finally, a truly authoritative way to loss fat that works!

As a doctor, nearly half of the men and women I see in my medical practice are overweight. About 2 in 10 are frankly obese. For years I've been on the lookout for an approach to losing weight that made sense and that I could recommend to them with some degree of enthusiasm. I finally found the answer in this program called the "Combat Fat" program. The book was effectively brought to my attention by one of my patients who had already given the Combat Fat approach a try and had begun to win her battle to trim down. It's the only approach I know of that is actually based on guidelines set up by the Surgeon General and the Centers for Disease Control, which is reassuring when you stop to consider how may weight loss programs are little more than fads. I plan to inform my overweight patients about this unusually user friendly book, especially those who are trying to give up cigarettes or have a family history of diabetes or heart disease or if they're already in trouble with any one of a number of obesity-related illnesses, or if they're just interested in looking better and living longer. A New York Phyician