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High-Performance Nutrition: The Total Eating Plan to Maximum Your Workout

Author: Susan M Kleiner

If you exercise, you need cutting-edge information on diet and nutrition to get the best results. Whether you want to achieve peak performance, improve your energy, increase endurance, lose fat, tone muscle, increase your body's natural ability to fight disease, or slow the aging process, High-Performance Nutrition offers the key to success. Nationally known expert Susan Kleiner shows you how to eat to get more value from any type of exercise——aerobics, strength training, endurance training, cross training, or recreational sports. Her unique nutrition program features:

• A proven nutritional formula for a fast increase in muscle tone and strength
• An easy-to-follow 30-Day Menu Plan, including shopping tips and meal preparation strategies
• Delicious recipes for "One-Minute Breakfasts" and "Dynamite Dinners"
• The latest information on supplements, food additives, sugar and fat replacements, sports drinks, and vegetarian diets

Publishers Weekly

Couch potatoes won't warm up to this enthusiastic fitness and diet advice, but active, interested readers will find plenty of up-to-date information about the effect of nutrition on muscle strength, endurance and performance here. Kleiner, a nutritionist who has worked with professional sports teams, and Greenwood-Robinson, co-author of Lean Bodies and other fitness books, cite current research to back up their position that a high "good" (complex) carbohydrate, low-fat diet provides the energy to work out hard while building body muscle. Chapters on vitamin, herbal and fiber supplements are comprehensive and reasonable. Nutritional needs of vegetarian athletes, as well as pregnant and older exercisers, are also addressed. Charts illustrate such topics as best fast-food bets or the healthful phytochemicals found naturally in foods. A 30-day diet plan based on 65% carbohydrates, 15% protein and 20% fat includes 10 main-course recipes, e.g., Asparagus and Shrimp Stir-Fry with Gingered Rice. Readers at high fitness levels will find this valuable reading during exercise breaks. (May)

Table of Contents:

Partial table of contents:
WHAT HIGH-PERFORMANCE LIVING MEANS.
Eating for Performance and Health.
FOODS FOR PHYSICALLY ACTIVE PEOPLE.
Carbohydrates.
Fat.
Phytochemicals.
Minerals.
SUPPLEMENTATION FOR ATHLETES AND EXERCISERS.
Antioxidant Supplementation.
My Firming Formula.
CONTROVERSIAL SUPPLEMENTS.
The Truth About Some Supplements.
Caffeine.
FLUID NEEDS OF EXERCISERS.
Water.
Sports Drinks.
THROUGH THICK AND THIN: WEIGHT CONTROL MADE EASY.
Successful Weight Control.
If you Want to Maintain or Gain Weight.
NUTRITION FOR SPECIAL NEEDS.
Nutrition During Pregnancy.
Go for It.
Appendices.
References.
Index.

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Warning Signs: A Guidebook for Parents: How to Read the Early Signals of Low Self-Esteem, Addiction, and Hidden Violence in Your Kids

Author: John Kelly

With over twelve years experience counseling addicts, alcoholics, and co-dependents in inpatient and outpatient treatment, John Kelly has uncovered what he believes to be the common cause of all addictions and destructive behavior: low self-esteem experienced during the childhood or adolescence of addicts.