The Fat to Muscle Diet

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A longtime backlist staple still going strong, The Fat-to-Muscle Diet shows readers how to transform their metabolism and go from flabby to firm-to get out of the dastardly dieting cycle.

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Awesome Book!.......2002-08-30

I purchased this book in March of 2002 and began my "diet" in April. I was obese to say the least. I have since lost a total of 60 pounds and overall 22 inches (13 from my hips and waist alone)I am sure that my personal motivation has had a lot to do with my success and I now have more energy than I have had in years. I am now able to wear a pair of jeans that I purchased my senior year of high school (I know... why would you save them?) which was 15 years and 2 children ago. I am absolutely NEVER hungry and actually crave drinking water now. (which I used to gag just at the thought of drinking) I have promoted this book to EVERYONE I know and even laugh about the fact that it was published so long ago, but still applies and is so useful.

My additional motivation is that I have gone from a size 22W pants to a comfortable 12 and often a 10. I run /walk 3 - 6 miles each day with my son, something I would not have been able to do 6 months ago and this also gives us some special time together.

I will say that this is obsessive, and my family hates to eat with me. Everytime we cook or eat together I do a lot of "do you know how much fat that has" or "I can't believe you ate sausages for breakfast!"

If you are even thinking of buying this book ... DO IT... RIGHT NOW!

Not a diet - a lifestyle.......2002-07-08

I love this book! This is the only "diet" I have ever followed and I am still my high school weight at 45 years old. I first ordered the paperback from the back of the Special K cereal box at least ten years ago and have completely worn out the book. I've just ordered a hardcover edition hoping it will last into my old age. If you're new to this book, keep in mind the fat comes off slowly - replaced by muscle. It's not an overnight diet - but a forever body change. Give yourself a couple of months to really see the difference. Also, you won't be hungry. The only thing I do differently from the book is to have two starches at lunch and one at dinner; this seems to work better for me. Also, I've found that water-packed tuna with BBQ sauce for flavor really sticks with you. Have fun and be creative!

Watch the inches disappear!.......2002-01-29

I first saw this diet in " Ladies Home Journal" back in 1989ish.
It had a page size color chart to figure your fat index, which the paperback book lacks.

I used this diet back in 1992 and lost 48 pounds. However, during the holidays over the years, the weight crept back.

Now my wife and I are both on this diet and in the first two weeks, I have lost:

14 pounds

2 inches in the hips

3 inches in the waist

1 1/2 inches across the breast

My wife keeps her weight secret, even after 14 years of marriage, but she has lost 4 inches in the waist, 3 inches in the hips, and 2 inches across the breasts, in our first two weeks. HINT: Buy a scale with a memory!
I would say the diet still works. In addition, I don't feel any hunger pangs between meals.

The exercise is important, but drinking 64 oz of water each day is more important, to wash out those fatty acids that accumulate from burning your stored up fat. DON'T WAIT until you are thirsty, start with water before the first cup of coffee.

There is no mention of increasing your water intake after drinking caffeinated drinks, that in hot weather would leave you dehydrated. The typical rule is to drink 2 times the amount of water for each amount of caffienated diet soda. Apparently, the fluid intake and outgo with 64 ounces of any liquid is enough to flush the system.

Our sample supper meal for one person:

Fruit: 4 oz high pulp Orange juice

1 Vege: 2 cups salad mix with 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar dressing

Protein; 1 Vege; 2 starch & 1/2 dairy:
2 yellow no fat tortillos
1/2 can no fat refried beans
1/2 can diced tomatoes with green chillies
grated cheese on top

Heated in microwave 2 1/2 minutes. Magnifique!

I whole heartedly recommend this diet. DON"T FORGET to exercise at least 30 minutes every other day. Walk, spade your garden, put up stuff upstairs or like I'm doing this morning...unloading 20 sacks of humas, 40 pounds each, which I found last night @ 49 cents each.

not a diet.......2002-01-07

I only had to read about 1/2 of the 1st chapter of this great book(I dont like to read), but thats all i needed to understand why "diets" dont work. This book is a must for anyone who want to lose weight(fat). I lost 25 pounds in about 40 days. The concept of this "diet" is so easy i had to slow my loss down because i was afraid of losing too much too fast. Now that the holidays are over, i'm going for another 25 pounds. My wife lost about 33 pounds also.

Great!.......2000-11-02

I first used this book about 10 years ago and found it effective and easy to follow. It is a flexible, healthy lifestyle plan incorporating good food and exercise. I have gone back to it several times over the years, and it has never failed me. Try it!

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Excercise Biochemistry
Vassilis Mougios
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ASIN: 0736056386

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Exercise Biochemistry brings an admittedly difficult and technical subject to life. Extremely user- and student-friendly, it is written in conversational style by Vassilis Mougios, who poses and then answers questions as if in conversation with a student. Mougios does an excellent job of making the information interesting by using simple language without compromising scientific accuracy and content. He also uses ample analogies, related works of art, and numerous illustrations to drive home his points for readers.

The result is that Exercise Biochemistry is a highly informative and illuminating text on the effects of exercise on molecular-level functioning. It presents the basics of biochemistry as well as in-depth coverage of exercise biochemistry. The book uses key terms, sidebars, and questions and problems posed at the end of each chapter to facilitate learning. It also covers metabolism, endocrinology, and assessment all in one volume, unlike other exercise biochemistry books.

In exploring all of these topics, Exercise Biochemistry makes the case for exercise biochemistry to have a stand-alone textbook. In fact, this book will encourage more universities to introduce exercise biochemistry courses to their curricula. Having the necessary topics of basic biochemistry in a single volume will facilitate the work of both instructors and students.

Exercise Biochemistry will also be useful to graduate students in sport science who have not been formally introduced to exercise biochemistry during their undergraduate programs. Additionally, it can supplement exercise physiology textbooks with its coverage of the molecular basis of physiological processes. This book is also for physical education and sport professionals who have an interest in how the human body functions during and after exercise. And this book is addressed to health scientists who are interested in the transformations in human metabolism brought about by physical activity.

The book is organized in four parts. Part I introduces readers to biochemistry basics, including chapters on metabolism, proteins, nucleic acids and gene expression, and carbohydrates and lipids. Part II consists of two chapters that explore neural control of movement and muscle contraction. The essence of the book is found in part III, which details exercise metabolism in its six chapters. Included are chapters on carbohydrate, lipid, and protein metabolism in exercise; compounds of high phosphoryl transfer potential; effects of exercise on gene expression; and integration of exercise metabolism. In part IV, the author focuses on biochemical assessment of people who exercise, with chapters on iron status, metabolites, and enzymes and hormones. Simple biochemical tests are provided to assess an athlete's health and performance.

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Key workers in vascular medicine and biology apply state-of-the-art techniques in cell and molecular biology to study the endothelial and vascular smooth muscle cells. The distinguished scientists and clinicians open a new area of endocrinology, which sees the vasculature and kidney as endocrine organs and sheds new light on the hormonal regulation of the cardiovascular system. They also add significantly to our current understanding of the autocrine, paracrine, and endocrine regulation of vascular function in health and in those vascular disease states that accompany diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, and hypertension. Endocrinology of the Vasculature is the first book to comprehensively and systematically explore the vasculature as an endocrine organ.

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In a stunning feat of meticulous reportage, Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ben Cramer ultimately puts to rest the "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?" question with iconoclastic bravura. In Cramer's evaluation, the hero America held onto so desperately for so long was really a creation of a nation's communal imagination. The Joe DiMaggio that America tried so hard to believe in was never really here at all.

There was, of course, a Joe DiMaggio, and he had a splendid career in Yankee pinstripes--once hitting safely in an unimaginable 56 consecutive games--and a troubled marriage with Marilyn Monroe, each augmenting the other in our national mythology. But myths tend to be skin-deep, and Cramer's biography thrives in an internal geography well below the surface. The map he charts is of a cold, small, often nasty, uncaring, resentful, self-centered man, a man of public grace and private misery who broke friendships, shunned family, and chased money with the same focused energies he once harnessed to run down fly balls. It's not a pretty picture.

Scrupulously researched and elegantly written, The Hero's Life is filled with stories and reminiscences, both on and off the field, from others--not surprisingly, DiMaggio offered no cooperation--that both illumine the man and, more fascinatingly, explain our very need for him. Amid all the success and adulation, there was little joy in DiMaggio's life, and few moments--beyond the real heartache he felt over Monroe--of connection with others beyond Joe's personal need for others to serve him. "No one really knew what it meant to have spent a half-century being precisely and distinctly DiMaggio," Cramer writes, "what we required Joe DiMaggio to be. No one knew, as he did, what it cost to live the hero's life. And no one knew, as he did, precisely what it was worth." It seems our nation turned its lonely eyes to a proud, but empty shell; Cramer's superb book helps us understand why we did, and how DiMaggio was able to take all the good will extended him and give so little back. --Jeff Silverman

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Joe DiMaggio was, at every turn, one man we could look at who made us feel good.

In the hard-knuckled thirties, he was the immigrant boy who made it big -- and spurred the New York Yankees to a new era of dynasty. He was Broadway Joe, the icon of elegance, the man who wooed and won Marilyn Monroe -- the most beautiful girl America could dream up.

Joe DiMaggio was a mirror of our best self. And he was also the loneliest hero we ever had.

In this groundbreaking biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer presents a shocking portrait of a complicated, enigmatic life. The story that DiMaggio never wanted told, tells of his grace -- and greed; his dignity, pride -- and hidden shame. It is a story that sweeps through the twentieth century, bringing to light not just America's national game, but the birth (and the price) of modern national celebrity.

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Blah. Just... blah........2007-09-16

My expectations for the book were low to begin with, but if I'd known DiMaggio had anything to do with Marilyn Monroe I wouldn't have bothered. She's a hack writer/pop culture magnet of the worst sort--and well, this biography is a prime example of the resulting genre.

Half the book manages to discuss DiMaggio's baseball career, in a sort of slap-dash, free-spinning verbal assault way. I suppose if you have the attention span of a gnat this is appreciated, but this approach just makes me unhappy; skip every other sentence and it still reads the same.

The second half of the book is Marilyn Monroe (the less said about that the better), and then DiMaggio's exploitive adventures in the ultimate sucker's paradise, the filthy world of baseball memorabilia.

Given his sources I doubt any of this is told either fairly or accurately... and you know you've got a real weiner of a book when "cease and desist/no comment" letters are included as a way to show "well, I tried to portray both sides but they wouldn't let me!"

I'm sure much of it is true, and I suspect DiMaggio was used, abused, folded, stamped, sealed, delivered. (Hey, at least he wasn't cryofrozen.) I just... gotta wonder why we really need to be told every intimate personal detail about someone, 'cause much of this stuff isn't our business.

Great look at more than just statistics.......2007-07-12

I enjoyed this book very much, it was a very entertaining read, failing to get five stars from me only because the author did not provide enough documentation of his facts.

Mr DiMaggio was a divinely talented ballplayer- greatest ever - no, in fact, definitely not - but certainly among them.

Away from baseball Joe D always struck me as both egotistical and just plain goofy. I liked the way the author gave credit to Joe's skills and accomplishments, while steering clear of a simple advertisement for a man we already knew was great on a ball diamond. DiMaggio was a very complex man, who had his failures and shortcomings, the same way all of us do.

I would certainly recommend this book as an entertaining read, it's not just a stiff baseball biography, there's a lot more here than just dates and statistics.

Exhaustive Research? Hardly?.......2007-04-15

I find it fascinating that many have disussed Mr. Cramer's exhaustive resarch for this book. Most of the assertions about DiMaggio's mob connections, pettiness, cruelty, money laundering (at one point the author mentions hundreds of thousands of dollars hidden in his house in San Francisco), do not have any footnotes. We are to assume his supposed interviews with the people he cites at the back of the book are the source. But where's the source for the author's claim about the paper bags of money hidden in the house, and supposedly carried out by Joe himself after an earthquake? You can't tell us an outrageous fact like that without telling us where you got it. Also, Cramer freely quotes dialogue, supposedly said by DiMaggio, that would be impossible to have known unless he was in the room. Even people relaying what DiMaggio said 50 and 60 years later could not have provided the exhaustive dialogue on display here. I suspect it was mostly written by the author, and used to back up the cold, calculating man Cramer wanted to depict. Where Cramer succeeds is in his portrayal of how DiMaggio was driven to succeed as a ballplayer, and literally felt he could take over a game and win. Given the many personal injuries he fought through, which Cramer mentions (and were part of the public record), it's remarkable what DiMaggio's Yankees were able to acheive - 10 pennants and 9 World Championships in 13 years. And it's abundantly clear that DiMaggio's teammates felt that he was always capable of a big hit or a big play whenever it was needed. He proved it to them over and over. I agree with the reader who said this book should have ended when DiMaggio retired. Mr. Cramer obviously knew that wouldn't be enough to make it a best seller. The Marilyn Monroe segment and the end of Joe's life are unfortunately painted in a sensational way, and this is the area where it feels like the author is really playing fast and loose with the truth. That Joe DiMaggio was a shy man who was driven by demons, I wouldn't deny. His rise from immigrant roots that he was sometimes ashamed of is a classic American story. It shouldn't be told by a character assassin like Richard Ben Cramer.

One-half of a good biography.......2006-10-20

Other reviewers have mentioned in detail the facts covered in this book - DiMaggio's phenomenal beseball career, together with his often seedy and less-than-heroic private life. I would only add that I quite enjoyed the book up through DiMaggio's retirement from the Yankees. Cramer did a masterful job of portraying his subject as a complex individual and often unique talent. Above all, Cramer gives the reader insight into the motivations that drove DiMaggio in both his public and private life.

After that, however, this book is a mess. 2/3 of the section covering 1952-1962 is about Marilyn Monroe. Cramer enjoys (with questionable accuracy) psychoanalyzing her, and DiMaggio appears mostly as a one-dimensional adjunct to her neuroses. After Monroe's death, the book skips forward to 1998 with little mention of any events that took place in the interim. Given the complex personality Cramer had outlined earlier, *something* of interest must have occurred in those 30 years, but we are left to guess.

Cramer portrays DiMaggio in his last days as if the dark forces in his character had almost entirely triumphed, leaving him little but an embittered shell. If that was the case, those 30 missing years ought to help us to understand that. It's puzzling that the excellent account in the first half of this book deteriorated into such a disjointed second half. Poor editing? Publication deadline? Maybe Cramer should have been content to write an excellent book that only covered DiMaggio's baseball years.

A great insight into a great player.......2006-10-03

Never saw him play but my father did and I've heard all the stories so I recently picked up this little gem and was introduced to the story behind the legend. And its a tragic story in many ways. Cramer presents Joe D as a sad man, angry, lonely, aloof and uncomfortable in the spotlight but somehow needing the spotlight as well. Well researched and detailed "The Hero's Life" is a powerful and compelling look at what makes (and breaks) a hero. I certainly came away with a deeper respect for DiMaggio and Yankee's history. It would be great if he'd do a book on Gehrig or the Babe because few books have actually captured their lives the way this book has captured DiMaggios.

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Joe DiMaggio : The Hero's Life
Richard Ben Cramer
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Binding: Hardcover
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Life Magazine - A Farewell to Joe Dimaggio: Rarely seen photos of a nation's hero - How much like Mom are you? Gwyneth Paltro and Blythe Danner

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Life Magazine - A Farewell to Joe Dimaggio: Rarely seen photos of a nation's hero - How much like Mom are you? Gwyneth Paltro and Blythe Danner
Life Magazine
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What we learn from our mothers, what our daughters learn from us. By Cokie Roberts

JOE DIMAGGIO: THE HERO'S LIFE.(Review) (book review): An article from: Columbia Journalism Review

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JOE DIMAGGIO: THE HERO'S LIFE.(Review) (book review): An article from: Columbia Journalism Review
Steve Weinberg
Manufacturer: Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
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Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Columbia Journalism Review, published by Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism on January 1, 2001. The length of the article is 2520 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: JOE DIMAGGIO: THE HERO'S LIFE.(Review) (book review)
Author: Steve Weinberg
Publication: Columbia Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2001
Publisher: Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
Volume: 39 Issue: 5 Page: 72

Article Type: Book Review

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JOE DIMAGGIO : The Hero's Life (Signed First Edition Society)

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Joe Dimaggio the Hero's Life Large Print Edition
Richard Ben Cramer
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Richard Cramer
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