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Flat Belly Diet | 
| Authors: Liz Vaccariello, Cynthia Sass
Publisher: Rodale Books
Category: Book
List Price: $25.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 97
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.8 x 1.2
ISBN: 1594868514
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.25
EAN: 9781594868511
ASIN: 1594868514
Publication Date: October 28, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
Prevention magazine is the country's most authoritative, trustworthy, and innovative source for practical health, nutrition, and fitness information. Now, its editors bring you a weight-loss plan that's specifically designed to target your number-one trouble spot: BELLY FAT. For women over 40, belly fat is incredibly stealth and incredibly stubborn. It's also the most deadly, contributing to a higher risk of heart disease, diabetes, and chronic illness than any other type of fat on your body. Finally, science has helped uncover a key dietary weapon in the fight against belly fat. Monounsaturated fatty acids, or MUFAs, help dieters lose more weight--in their bellies specifically--and keep it off longer. Flat Belly Diet! will lead you step by step, day by day, meal by meal toward a flatter belly...and a longer, healthier life.
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 Ready to get flat? November 20, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The Flat Belly Diet!, like other diet books, presents a program that takes an unusual angle on slimming your waistline: eating a reduced calorie diet that is high in monounsaturated fat (MUFA) in order to flatten your belly with no exercise required. The program is 32 days long and it's based on "studies" that suggest this is enough time to make a dietary and lifestyle change.
The first thing the book teaches you is there are two types of primary body fat: subcutaneous and visceral. Directly under your skin you find the subcutaneous and then the visceral fat surrounds your organs. Visceral fat is far more dangerous to your health (common scientific knowledge). here is no disputing the fact that visceral fat is the most dangerous one for our health. There are many ways to reduce your visceral fat, but this diet focuses on monounsaturated fats (MUFA) that are part of your subcutaneous fat (your belly!).
Like other diet books, this one is filled with stories of people who have lost inches off their waistline using this program. With MUFAs the solution for this plan, you are supposed to fill up on them, and this will eliminate your belly fat.
The first part of this diet is called the Four-Day Anti-Bloat Jumpstart. The book promises you'll lose up to 5 total inches. The premise for this is to get you motivated to proceed with the remainder of the diet by seeing some results happen quickly. The goal for these four days is to eliminate gas, heavy solids, and excess fluid. A 1,200-calorie diet is given with the instructions. From there you spend the next 28 days eating a 1,600-calorie requirement (based on a 40 year old woman of average height, frame size, etc). That's pretty much it. MUFAs are this book's new addition to the world of diets.
I also bought a book called The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book after seeing it recommended here with Flat Belly Diet!, and I strongly recommend it because it's a fascinating book and it helped me to control some of my emotional eating by becoming more self-aware and improving my ability to self-manage.
Helpful & Insightful November 20, 2008
OK I would like to start off by saying that this book does NOT say you don't have to work out! It encourages you to do so. What it is saying is that if you change your diet. i.e going from eating pizza and ice cream to fruits and good oils you will see a change. I mean come on that is a given! They are no way in any way shape or form trying to send the message that you can lose all the weight you want without working out.
Another point I would like to add is that all these ingredients can be found at your local grocery store or H-E-B. Yes the groceries can come out to a good amount of cash, but seriously it's a small price to pay for improved health and vitality. Plus buying junk food hits your wallet harder in the long run.
With that being said I am on my 3rd day of this diet, and I must say I am feeling way more energetic! In addition to following this diet I work out about an hour a day. 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes in the evening. This book is helpful as a SUPPLEMENT to working out!!!
 People in Rural Areas - DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK November 19, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Do NOT get this book if the following circumstances apply to you:
You live in a rural area. If you do, many of the items on their shopping list and meal planners will not be available to you. I would have to drive about a hundred miles to get some of these. Our local grocery stores do NOT have the following:
Cremini Mushrooms
Ginger Root
Mint Leaves Fresh
Cold-Pressed Organic Flaxseed Oil
Packages of Organic Deli Turkey
Tilapia
Frozen Peaches (mixed fruit but not peaches)
It is a very "fluffy" book. Lots of feel good type messages. Lots of personal testimonials - which are people that were provided all the necessary ingredients to do this diet. I guess it could realistically be done by an upper middle class income person living in a metropolitan area.
Basically this book is JUST a big endorsement for BRANDS like:
Clif, Odwalla, Larabar, Luna, Amy's, Seeds of change, Cedarlane, Yves, Boca, just to name a few meal replacement (bars and frozen) the sad part is that I have never heard of any of them. The only brands I was familiar with: Natures Path and Kashi. Of these particular 44 items listed, those two familiar brands comprised 9 of the total items.
Warning Warning Warning to ALL rural librarians:
DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK FOR YOUR LIBRARY!!!!
IT IS TOTALLY USELESS TO YOUR PATRONS!!!
I am totally PO'd because I wasted so much money on this book. My state funding has already been cut by 5%. I have been told to expect another 25% cut by the summer. (just in time for my children's summer reading program)
I know other libraries are also going through tough times - especially rural libraries!
DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!!!!!
 Dreaming of a super flat belly..is different from getting one ! November 19, 2008
Interesting, but not so new. One point: yes, it's okay to eat fats - they actually help dieters not to be too hungry and to last longer with smaller amounts of food. Not a bad proposition. The rest of the book sets the dieters up for some punitive "restrictions" again....There's a much better approach - see [...] (only in Los Angeles and Arizona right now). The Magic of Being Thin seminars actually recommend no exercise, or very mild exercise untill the dieter starts losing. A much better book is the good "FIT or FAT" sold here on Amazon. Also, try "FAT is a Feminist Issue". Now, if you don't mind losing slowly (1 or 2 lbs a week, max) "The Age Free Zone" book is great because it explains clearly the fat storage metabolism, and how to bypass that. A much better read, too.
Don't bother !!! November 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is certainly not worth the money and has no new useful information. I wish I could have read an excert from the book as I would not have wasted my money. There is nothing in this book that you don't already know if you are trying to either lose weight or just eat better !!!!!!!
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