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FitnessProsBooks.com - Men's Health TNT Diet: The Explosive New Plan to Blast Fat, Build Muscle, and Get Healthy in 12 Weeks (Mens Health)
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Manufacturer: Rodale Books
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 613
EAN: 9781594869761
ISBN: 1594869766
Label: Rodale Books
Manufacturer: Rodale Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2008-12-23
Publisher: Rodale Books
Release Date: 2008-12-23
Studio: Rodale Books
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Summary: FINALLY: A diet that doesnt require bland food, doesnt leave you starving, AND actually WORKS !!
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A diet where you can consume butter, full-fat cheese, bacon (and other pork products), beef, and eggs with yolk ... and IMPROVE your health.
This is NOT a "crash" diet or a "fad" diet, but rather a plan to eat the foods your body was designed to function on, based on hard empirical science (much of which is detailed in the book).
I think the best part about this book is that you can consume foods which taste good (read: fats) so you're not as apt to binge on things like potato chips and chocolate, since you're not really depriving yourself of tasty foods.
Regarding the Fiber issue: The book states that the vast majority of Vegetables are absolutely fine to consume (unlike the original Atkins diet, which tells you to stay away from nearly all of them). The book specifically advocates eating greater than 4 servings of vegetables per day, and tells dieters to "indulge" on them. While you will lose some fiber intake by not eating whole grains, fruits, or legumes, you can liberally consume vegetables and sunflower seeds (to a somewhat lesser extent) to make up for that.
And results: first 2-3 weeks with NO working out (the book strongly advocates a regular weight-training regiment, I just havent had the time as a full-time grad student), I've lost about 8 lbs, all from my midsection.
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Summary: The Truth About Steak From Meat to Muscle
Comment: [...]From: www.BasilAndSpice.com
Author & Book Views On A Healthy Life!
Book Review: Men's Health TNT Diet by Jeff Volek, Ph.D., R.D.
Jeff Volek, Ph.D., R.D. is an exercise and nutrition researcher at the University of Connecticut. A regular contributor to Men's Health and coauthor with Adam Campbell of The Testosterone Advantage Plan and The TNT Diet, says, "You are what your body does with what you eat." My husband like most men, enjoys grilling a steak, but has cut back on it recently because his cholesterol is a little high. In the TNT Diet, Volek tells the truth about the sirloin steak. Beef like other animal meats has a similar composition. Think of the dark meat and skin of the turkey or the ham and bacon from pork.
Fatty Acid Content of Sirloin Steak:j0182751.jpg
Monounsaturated Fat: 49%: Oleci Acid: 45% {+}; Palmitic Acid: 4% {+}
Saturated Fat: 47%; Palmitic Acid: 27% {+}; Stearic Acid: 16% {0}; Myristic Acid: 3% {-}; Lauric Acid: 1% {+}
Polyunsaturated Fat: 4%; Linoleic Acid: 4% {+}
Key + = positive effect on cholesterol
- = negative effect on cholesterol
0 = no effect on cholesterol
Steak first enters the digestive system at the mouth, over the lips and through the gums...Our types of teeth are made to chew it well. Saliva aids the process. From the mouth it slides down the esophagus and lands in the stomach. Enzymes break the steak into amino acid strands, liquidizes, and becomes chyme. Passing into the small intestines, more enzymes continue to break the amino acid strands into single and double amino acids. Absorption of the smaller amino acids occurs when they have been transported to the cells that line the wall of the intestines, reaching the bloodstream. From there, they are delivered directly to the muscles through capillaries, aiding damaged muscle tissue.
Volek believes it is important to eat some protein before exercising.
Volek elaborates that fat shows up on the body not just through dietary intake, but also through the manufacturing process within the body. Insulin levels within rise after eating carbohydrates, sending signals to the body to quit burning and begin storing fat. Another function of insulin is to activate the liver in its production of saturated fat. More carbs then equal more saturated fat production.
Other key facts regarding fat from Jeff Volek:
Triglyceride levels are lowered and HDL (good cholesterol) increases after replacing carbs with any type of fat.
Dairy products, containing the saturated fat from palmitic and stearic acids, have higher saturated fat content than beef, pork, or poultry.
Lower-carb type diets allow for lower insulin levels, a decreased production of saturated fatty acids, and encourage the body to burn more fat for energy. Follow a healthy diet, exercise, and go ahead and eat that sirloin steak!
This book is full of the science behind the muscle.
5 Stars
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Summary: It is a good book but...
Comment: This book is a great guide for the people who is very determinated to lose several pounds. My opinion to beginners is not to involve hard exercise during the period of the diet plan because the lack of energy you will face each day. If you are a consistent medium experienced lifter this book is not for you, because the fact you know you need balanced meals to accomplish your strength and cardio goals every single time.
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Summary: Great Diet but info is free elsewhere
Comment: This is a fantastic diet for fatloss and muscle growth. As many reviewers pointed out, it is not terribly new information, among weightlifting enthusiasts its fairly old news actually, it may be entirely new to you though. Heres the problem with the book though, the author works for mens health, and they put out almost all of the information on the web for free, they dont go into specifics, but I cant see how they are neccesary if you understand the diet. If you are new to nutrition and weight training/lifting then the book might be a nice guide. Again, great information and as more and more people are starting to realize, low carb works for a lot of us, throwing in weight training can lead to greatly increased health. Heres most of the info though, free of charge.
http://www.menshealth.com/cda/article.do?site=MensHealth&channel=weight.loss&category=transform.2007&conitem=036b1d8690fd2110VgnVCM20000012281eac____&page=1
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Summary: TNT Diet Works
Comment: I have owned this book for a while but didn't actually start following the plan until May 2008. The book may not be written on the highest level and it be the most challenging read, but do you really want that?
The reasoning behind what and when you eat and how you exercise is obviously important. The plan has had a very nice effect on my body. I officially started the plan after my bad cholesterol came back at 146. After 4 months of eating the way the book describes I dropped that number to 116. I also dropped my trigylcerides from 115 to 83. I have lost weight and my clothes fit better too. Dropping my LDL by 30 points while eating eggs, cheese, steak, and veggies is not a bad deal in my view.
I may not be a scientist, but I can tell you that the plan works for me. It is easy to follow and I feel healthier now than I have in many years. I think if you are interested in losing weight and the principles of this plan make sense to you, you should buy this book. If you want a hard to read / understand / comprehend book ... then you might need to order another book.
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The Men’s Health TNT Diet is a revolutionary program for burning fat and building muscle. Utilizing Targeted Nutrition Tactics (TNT), the authors move beyond “good carbs” and “bad carbs” to focus instead on “well-timed carbs” that will allow readers to eat the foods they want as long as they are eating them at the right time. By controlling the levels of glycogen (carbs stored in our muscles) through this unique diet, and learning to exercise in the carb-burning zone (the secret to making workouts shorter and more effective) anyone can shed fat and build muscle—and it takes only 90 minutes of exercise a week.
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