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The Diet Detective's Count Down 7500 of Your Favorite Food Counts with Their Exercise Equivalents for Walking Running Biking Swimming Yoga and Dance
Author: Charles Stuart Platkin

THE COST OF A CALORIE REVEALED --EXERCISE EQUIVALENTS-- The Diet Detective's Count Down Offers Readers Calories, Carbs, Fat and the Exercise Equivalents For More For Than 7,500 Foods (Walk, Run, Swim, Bike, Yoga, and Dance) Ever find yourself debating whether or not to buy just one bag of chips? Or grab a little candy bar for the road? Consi...  more »der this: what if the nutritional labels on your favorite foods spelled out exactly what you'd have to do to burn those calories? It might just change your shopping and snacking habits. Well, nutrition and public health advocate, Charles Stuart Platkin's new book, THE DIET DETECTIVE'S COUNT DOWN, on shelves in January 2007, is the first of its kind that translates food into exercise, giving readers a tool for deciding what a calorie means and which calories are worth it. THE DIET DETECTIVE'S COUNT DOWN lists more that 7,500 foods with exercise equivalents in minutes calculated using six forms of activity: WALKING, RUNNING, BIKING, SWIMMING, YOGA, AND DANCING. All this information is listed in an easy to view table format. The table also includes calories, fat and carbohydrates. This is no ordinary diet book, it is a food fact bible giving readers tasty nuggets of information that make them think before they eat. Translating food into calorie counts isn't enough - translating calorie counts into exercises makes clear the consequence each bite has on the waistline! THE DIET DETECTIVE'S COUNT DOWN lets readers make informed decisions on all the foods they love and eat.  « less

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ISBN-13: 9780743298001
ISBN-10: 0743298004
Publication Date: 1/2/2007
Pages: 384
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Publisher: Fireside
Book Type: Paperback
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K B R. (hipposlovebooks2) reviewed The Diet Detective's Count Down: 7500 of Your Favorite Food Counts with Their Exercise Equivalents for Walking, Running, Biking, Swimming, Yoga, and Dance on 6/15/2011 + 50 more book reviews

Great book for the dieter! Takes your favortie food and tells you how long it will take to work it off. Is that chocolate cake really worth the effort? Fun and informative for the dieter.

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