The ABS Diet Ultimate Nutrition Handbook: Your Reference Guide to Thousands of Foods, and How Each One Shapes Your Body

by David Zinczenko and Ted Spiker

Book Overview

Look around at America's waistlines and you'll see belts busting all over the place. Some might say that this weight problem is won or lost at the dinner table. Or at restaurants. Or in the drive-thru... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1605296945
• ISBN13: 9781605296944
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Eating Out Tonight? Eat These And Weep!

From: www.BasilAndSpice.com Author & Book Views On A Healthy Life! It's the weekend. Not many feel like shopping and then preparing dinner, opting for a quick bite out instead. Watch what you're putting into your mouth, it could end up on your waist! David Zinczenko, author of The Abs Diet Ultimate Nutrition Handbook includes an entire chapter titled, "The 20 Worst Foods Ever!" Eat these and Weep. 1. Fettucine Alfredo--worth up to 1,000 calories and 90 grams of fat. Order instead, whole-grain pasta with marinara. 2. Hardee's Monster Thickburger--sounds great guys, but can you afford almost 1,500 calories and 107 grams of fat? 3. Creme-Filled Doughnut With Chocolate Icing--my husband used to eat two of these every morning before work, each weighs in at 250 calories, 9 grams of fat--saturated and trans. 4. Cinnabon Classic--800 calories and 32 grams of fat; if you just can't pass it up, do like David and split it four ways. 5. Deep-Fried Twinkies or Oreos--I've never even eaten these! Avoid deep-fried foods in general. A Twinkie usually contains 150 calories/5 grams of fat. Deep frying triples the cals. 6. Cheese Fries with Gravy--1,000+ calories, contains partially hydrogenated oil. Eat a corn chip with salsa, is my quick fix. 7. Soda--the scourge of the easy-access generation, it's called "pop" where I grew up. A typical 32oz. cola is around 300 calories. Hint--drink water. 8. Bloomin' Onion--2,200 calories for an appetizer! Opt for a house salad. 9. Spinach Dip and Chips or Bread--spinach and artichokes themselves are nutritionally sound, but the cheese base of the dip jumps of the cals to around 140 for a 1oz serving. 10. Pork Rinds--this is fried pig skin and 1oz is worth 150cals, 10 grams of fat, and 500mg sodium. 11. Potpie--my kids love these, but I've searched the stores over, and the options are either loaded with fat (30g) and calories (500+) per serving, or hydrogenated oils are used for preparation. 12. Sausage or Hot Dog--three hot dogs at the average ballpark is 900 calories, and that's without the beer! They also are full of nitrites. 13. Pizza Hut Stuffed-Crust Meat Lover's Pizza--one slice equals 520 calories and 29 grams of fat. Half of the pizza is 2,000 calories. Since pizza is a Friday night special for everyone in my neighborhood, shoot for the lighter version of regular pizza, light on the cheese, add some veggies, skip the meat. I like thin crispy crust or whole wheat. 14. Cheesecake--a large piece tops out at 700 calories. If you're eating out, try the new trend called mini-indulgences. 15. Movie-Theater Popcorn--with the melted butter and mindless-consuming you may eat 1,500 calories/100 grams of fat. 16. Frosting--do not lick the bowl! Or eat it by the spoonful! The prepared versions from the grocery store contain trans fats (to keep it from melting) and a whole lot of sugar. Mr. Zinczenko adds that one or two licks are OK, a kid at heart! 17. McDonald's Chocolate Triple Thick Shak

Great, insightful "Diet" book

I'm hesitant to call this a diet book because this plan includes a very wide range of different foods that you can eat and still fall within its guidelines. Perhaps my favorite thing about it though is how it explains exactly why you should it what it says. It explains the health benefits of each of the types of food, what they do and why its important to throw a lot of common misconceptions out the window, ie. "Can't lose weight while eating foods with fat" It explains why fats are important and how its all a matter of eating the right kinds of fats and right balance of carbs and protein. Its a very easy read too, and easy to understand.

Excellent Book

Excellent book on how to get your abs back. It doesn't take a million situps to get a 6 pack. It takes eating the right foods, eating smaller meals, more frequent meals per day, weightlifting and cardio exercises.

Excellent!

I can't believe no one has reviewed this yet. It is definitely a worthy companion to the actual Abs Diet book. This book alone can do wonders for your diet in my opinion. Tons of health tips!