Sobre El Autor
Dawn Jackson Blatner, RD, LDN, is a national media spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, a flexitarian cooking instructor, and an internationally recognized speaker. She has a regular healthy eating television segment called "Take a Bite" on NBC Chicago, is the nutrition consultant to mostrar más the Chicago Cubs, and writes a food and nutrition blog for USA Today. She lives in Chicago. mostrar menos
Obras de Dawn Jackson Blatner
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 20th Century
- Género
- female
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Miembros
- 58
- Popularidad
- #284,346
- Valoración
- 3.1
- Reseñas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 5
Pages 12-13 have a quick quiz to determine where you are on the flexscore. What does that mean? If you score well it means you already know how to eat healthy and eat a variety of the healthy foods and know how to include fitness activities in your life. If you score low, it means you will enjoy the book and gradually make slow changes in your life to have a better lifestyle. (how true that is depends on the individual I suppose.)
There's a pop quiz on pages 40-41. How many fruits and vegetables have you eaten in the past month? If you're not a big fan of fruits and veggies, there's a url included http://www.fruitsandveggiesmorematters.org/main-recipes
There are fun fact stack, craving control and time cruch snippets of information spread out in the book. The one on page 60 contradicts something else in the book about eating 3-4-5 (on page 76) eat 300 calories in the morning, 400 at lunch and dinner is 500 calories. But the fact stack says when we eat 70 percent of our calories in the early part of the day, we can lose 1.5 pounds more in six weeks, than those who eat most of their calories in the evening.
There are recipes in the book to help get people on track, but some include cheese or yogurt and some include agave. Now again, for the typical American eater, these recipes would be a great start. Chapter 4 is also good for anyone who has excuses on why they cannot exercise.
I like page 242 For any weight-loss or healthy-living plan to work long-term, exercise is essential. It's nonnegotiable.
30 minutes of activity most days of the week helps prevent diseases without much impact on weight. Sixty minutes most days prevents disease and helps keep your weight stable. Ninety minutes most days leads to disease prevention and weight loss.… (más)