Sunday, December 28, 2008

The New Optimum Nutrition Bible or Curves

The New Optimum Nutrition Bible: Revised and Updated

Author: Patrick Holford

PATRICK HOLFORD is one of Britain's leading nutritional authors, with more than 20 health books published under his byline, including The 30Day Fatburner Diet, Optimum Nutrition for the Mind, and The H Factor. He founded the Institute for Optimum Nutrition (ION),a nonprofit center for the research and practice of nutrition in London. He lives in London.



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Curves: Permanent Results without Permanent Dieting

Author: Gary Heavin

The power to amaze in 30 minutes a day, 3 days a week.

Two million women have discovered Gary Heavin's secret to permanent weight loss at more than six thousand Curves fitness and weight-loss centers around the country. In thirty minutes, three times a week-and without a restrictive diet-many have been able to take off the weight and keep it off for good.

The Curves Promise:

- A unique three-part nutrition plan that produces results quickly and shows how to maintain weight loss in order to eat normally for 28 days, and only monitor food intake two days a month
- A Metabolic Tune-Up helps deter yo-yo dieting and shows how to lose weight by eating more, not less
- Simple self-tests determine calorie or carbohydrate sensitivity, helping women individualize their food plan
- Shopping lists, meal plans, recipes, food and supplement guides, and charts to track progress and guide users through every phase of the nutrition and exercise plan - A complete Curves At-Home workout, combining strength training and aerobics and taking only thirty minutes a day-no more than three times a week

Author Biography: Gary Heavin opened his first fitness center in 1976. A nutritional counselor and fitness instructor, he started the Curves franchise in Texas in 1992. Since then it has grown to become the largest fitness franchise in the world.

Carol Colman is the author or co-author of numerous bestselling health books.

Library Journal

It seems that every time one turns around, there is another fitness guru with a book touting a miraculous (read: quick and easy) way to lose weight. Founder and CEO of Curves International, the largest fitness franchise in the world, Heavin is no different from the other experts. Heavin recommends working out three times a week for 30 minutes-which of course he would like you to do at Curves. But his book provides complete exercises with well-drawn examples for readers to follow or Curves regulars to use on their days off. Also included are a low-calorie diet and a low-carbohydrate diet, each with recipes and extensive menus, and a written quiz called "Test Your Metabolism" helps readers decide which plan they should follow. While good tips can be gleaned from these pages, Heavin really doesn't give us anything new. Buy for demand only if Curves is popular in your community.-Marianne Fitzgerald, Information Specialist, Charlotte Mecklenburg Sch. Dist., NC Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.



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