Strong Women Stay Slim or What Your Doctor Doesnt Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You

Strong Women Stay Slim

Author: Miriam E Nelson

Strong Women Stay Slim is the first book to combine the extraordinary fat-fighting power of strength training with a safe, medically proven weight-loss program. Scientific research has shown that strength training increases metabolism - a key to permanent weight loss - by as much as 15 percent. No matter what your age or fitness level, you can start tomorrow with six simple, no-sweat exercises you can do at home or in the office. You'll feel stronger, more energetic and vital almost immediately.

Library Journal

Nelson's Strong Women Stay Young (LJ 1/97) demonstrated how a weight-training program can prevent or reduce the balance problems and osteoporosis that are sometimes considered a "normal" part of aging. Here she shows how a simple program of weight training, aerobics, and sensible eating can improve one's figure without necessarily resulting in weight loss per se. The usual diet plans often result in a loss of lean muscle tissue and bone density; pounds are lost, but so is muscle tone and bone strength, while the actual amount of fat remains the same, causing potential health problems in several areas. Nelson's program, which avoids these problems, has multiple benefits and is easy to follow. Menus and recipes are included. Highly recommended. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 1/98.]Susan B. Hagloch, Tuscarawas Cty. P.L., New Philadelphia, OH

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
I	Weighing the Scientific Evidence	1
1	Putting New Muscle into Weight Loss	3
2	The Surprising Reason That Women Gain	19
3	How Exercise Transforms Your Body	37
4	Eating for Health and Pleasure	51
II	Getting Started	73
5	The Seven Mental Secrets of Successful Weight Loss	75
6	What Have You Got to Lose?	87
III	The Strong Women Stay Slim Program	105
7	Six Exercises That Will Make You Strong	107
8	Ease Yourself into Fitness	148
9	A Lifelong Plan for Eating Well	176
10	Pulling It All Together	208
11	Staying on Track	220
12	Questions and Answers	239
IV	Menus and Recipes by Steven Raichlen	257
	Index	309

Interesting book:

What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You

Author: Ray Strand

The impact of nutritional medicine has had a dramatic and controversial--but documented--impact on the lives of Dr.Strand's patients and can now change readers' lives too.

When Dr. Ray Strand found himself in a losing battle, unable to successfully treat his wife who had suffered chronically with pain and fatigue, he agreed to try the regimen of nutritional supplements that a neighbor suggested. Much to his surprise, his wife's condition began to improve almost immediately. That amazing turn of events led him to dedicate himself to researching alternative therapies in medicine, particularly in the arena of nutritional supplements.

Dr. Strand's illumination of the body's silent enemy-oxidative stress-will astound you. But, more importantly, his research will equip you to protect or reclaim your nutritional health, possibly reversing disease and preventing illness.

Publishers Weekly

South Dakota-based Strand, a general practitioner for nearly a quarter century, turned his attention to nutrition in the mid-90s when traditional medical approaches failed to help his wife's chronic fatigue. In his authorial debut, Strand preaches vitamins, minerals, fatty acids and other nutritional supplements with the zeal of a new convert. His opponents are formidable: the government, food suppliers and the medical establishment who, Strand says, disregard evidence that the RDA recommendations are inadequate to supply us with the weapons to fight chronic diseases. Chapters cover "Oxidative Stress and Your Eyes," "Cellular Nutrition" and "Homocysteine: New Kid on the Block," among other ailments and panaceas. Despite the alarmist title, those who suffer from or are at risk for heart disease, diabetes, cancer, auto-immune disorders and lung disease may want to weigh the evidence for themselves; Stand's book is designed to provide an alternative perspective that aids in doing so, though it also includes various supplemental regimens he has devised. His message, after all, is fundamentally a simple one: let's protect and care for our bodies, Strand says, and "may we all live until we die." (Sept. 16) Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.