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The Diet Detective's Count Down: 7500 of Your Favorite Food Counts with Their Exercise Equivalents for Walking, Running, Biking, Swimming, Yoga, and D
Contributor(s): Platkin, Charles Stuart (Author)

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 ISBN: 0743298004     ISBN-13: 9780743298001
Publisher: Atria Books
OUR PRICE: $22.79  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2007
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Annotation: Platkin, known as The Diet Detective, provides more than 7,500 excercise equivalents for readers' favorite foods. It's dieting made easy, with information readers crave.
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BISAC Categories:
- Health & Fitness | Diet & Nutrition - Food Content Guides
- Health & Fitness | Diet & Nutrition - Nutrition
- Health & Fitness | Diet & Nutrition - Diets
Dewey: 613.23
LCCN: 2006053058
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5" W x 8" L (0.95 lbs) 384 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:
THE COST OF A CALORIE REVEALED

- CALORIE SHOPPING with EXERCISE EQUIVALENTS -

The Diet Detective's Count Down Offers Readers Calories, Carbs, Fat and the Exercise Equivalents For More For Than 7,500 Foods(Walk, Run, Swim, Bike, Yoga, and Dance).

Ever find yourself debating whether or not to buy just one bag of chips? Or grab a little candy bar for the road? Consider this: what if the nutritional labels on your favorite foods spelled out exactly what you'd have to do to burn those calories?

Well, nutrition and public health advocate, Charles Stuart Platkin's new book, THE DIET DETECTIVE'S COUNT DOWN, is the first of its kind that translates food into exercise, giving readers a tool for deciding what a calorie means and which calories are worth it.

THE DIET DETECTIVE'S COUNT DOWN lists more that 7,500 foods with exercise equivalents in minutes calculated using six forms of activity: WALKING, RUNNING, BIKING, SWIMMING, YOGA, AND DANCING. All this information is listed in an easy to view table format. The table also includes calories, fat and carbohydrates.

This is no ordinary diet book, it is a food fact bible giving readers tasty nuggets of information that make them think before they eat. Translating food into calorie counts isn't enough -- translating calorie counts into exercises makes clear the consequence each bite has on the waistline

Examples of an Exercise Equivalent (The book contains more than 7500 listings in an easy to use table format w/ Calories, Carbs and Fat, walking, running, biking, swimming, yoga and dance):

  • 1 double-stuffed Oreo cookie = 18 minutes of walking
  • 1 handful of chips = 26 minutes of dancing
  • 1 slice of chocolate cake = 48 minutes of biking
  • 1 candy bar = 32 minutes of swimming
  • 1 soda = 48 minutes of yoga
  • 1 tablespoon of butter = 11 minutes of running

Contributor Bio(s): Platkin, Charles Stuart: - Charles Stuart Platkin, J.D., M.P.H., is one of the country's leading public health advocates, whose syndicated nutrition and fitness column,"The Diet Detective," appears in more than 165 daily newspapers across the country. He is also the founder of DietDetective.com, an online health and fitness network. Platkin is the author of Breaking the Pattern, Breaking the Fat Pattern, and Lighten Up.
 
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