Should I Eat the Yolk?: Separating Facts from Myths to Get You Lean, Fit, and Healthy

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Ulysses Press, Apr 20, 2010 - Cooking - 360 pages
This is a comprehensive yet reader-friendly guide to the truth behind commonly held fitness and health myths. How much do calories matter? Is bottled water safer than tap water? Are high glycemic index diets inferior to low glycemic index diets? With so much conflicting information out there, how can you decide what's fact or fiction? Should I Eat the Yolk? addresses many of the most popular claims perpetuated by the fitness industry and presents solid research to debunk or support them in an easy-to-follow format. In addition the book offers an in-depth analysis of some of the most popular diets plans and books on the market including The Atkins Diet , The South Beach Diet , Nutrisytems, low fat diets, the Maple Syrup Diet (the diet popularized by Beyonce Knowles), Weight Watchers and many more. Which diet is for you? Are any of these diets for you? Read the analysis then decide.
 

Contents

Introduction
11
Chapter 1 Health and Nutrition Claims
13
Chapter 2 Exercise Claims
62
Chapter 3 Finding the Right Diet for Weight Loss
107
References
114
Index
135
About the Author
147
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Jamie Hale is sports conditioning coach who was inducted into the World Marital Arts Hall of Fame in recognition of his conditioning work with competitive martial artists. In 2008 Jamie’s gym Total Body Fitness, which he owned and operated for eleven years, was featured in Men’s Health as one of the top 30 training facilities in the USA. He is considered by most in the industry as a specialist in agility and comprehensive fitness training. Jamie’s scientific approach and critical thinking ability has earned him the nicknames, “The Practical Scientist” and “The Fitness Skeptic”. He has Written for Men's Health, MMA Sports Magazine, Planet Muscle, Mind and Muscle magazine, Speed Strength and Sport Athlete.

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