The Abs Diet: The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life
by David Zinczenko, Ted Spiker
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Author: David Zinczenko, Ted SpikerEdition: Hardcover
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Published: 2004-06-19
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Number of pages: 288
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Book Review: A Practical, Common Sense Diet with An Easy-To-Follow Plan
Summary: 4 Stars
A Note About the Kindle Edition:
First off, I should say that I read the Amazon Kindle edition of this book and it's worth mentioning because there are a few typos and strangely formatted areas as it pertains to the version. For instance, the segments that highlight success stories seem to be broken up awkwardly in such a way that the segment text and chapter text, although clearly distinct, interrupt each other. Perhaps this works well in a book, where a reader can see two pages at once, but it's disruptive to the way things are read on the Kindle.
Thankfully, the errors are few and forgivable.
The Book:
When I first saw The Abs Diet, I thought to myself "great, another gimmicky diet. This one probably has you doing sit-ups every day or something until you have rock-hard abs," or some other silly, psuedo-science-based diet. Of course, being the always gullible overweight man that I am, I downloaded it right to my Kindle and tried to control my gut-instinct to place on top of the 4 ft. tall pile of diet books gathering dust in a corner of my house.
I would say a good portion of the book (around 90%) has nothing directly to do with the diet and is instead dedicated to the crazy state of our health in America, the devilish food manufacturers and their sneaky ways, why other diets just don't work, and why this one will (and there are many instances where Zinczenko is just repeating himself in case we didn't catch it the first three times); however, mixed into that is quite a lot of useful information, especially about food, nutrition, and the health benefits and ailments gained from eating the right and wrong stuff.
Thankfully, Zinczenko has a good wit about him and keeps things moving briskly. The only issue I had the book itself is that while the author cites dozens of studies, no citations to those studies are ever given (which is pretty common in diet books).
The Diet:
As for the diet itself, I am happy to say that it is not based on psuedo-science, as I feared. Much of what Zinczenko had to offer has been well-known for years, but Zinczenko has placed it all in a format that he hopes will be accessible to most if not everyone in the form of practicality. Gone are the days where cooking elaborate meals, counting every calorie you've consumed, or going hungry until you're next meal. Zinczenko's diet is based on the principle that says "if it's too hard, you won't do it."
The plan is two-fold, first there is the nutritional aspect. Zinczenko wants you to eat six times a day (three meals, three snacks) with foods based on what he calls the "ABS POWER 12" (capitalized because it's an acronym for the 12 food types that are really healthy to consume). He wants you to eat even if you're not hungry. To help maintain your sanity, the diet allows you to eat anything you want (a slice of pizza, deep fried chicken, etc.) for one meal a week.
The second part of the plan is the exercise. Yes, he wants you to exercise, but he doesn't want you to spend a lot of time doing it. Instead, three times a week he wants you to do a quickly paced circuit routine that focuses on building muscle (especially your abs). The routine usually doesn't last me more than 20 minutes to get through, and I'm a pretty slow poke when it comes to weightlifting. Also, don't worry about getting a membership at the gym (although it really helps), you can do all the recommended exercises with a pair of dumbbells and some steps.
That's all there is to it, exercise and eat right, and you've got the Abs Diet. Maybe you don't really need a book to tell you this, but if you're like me you'll appreciate having a plan to go with the principles.
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