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Strong Women Stay SlimBantam, 1998, $11.95 paperback Reviewed by Joan Price. © Joan Price. May not be reprinted without permission.
Miriam E. Nelson, Ph.D., is a researcher at Tufts University who has studied the health benefits of strength training for a decade. She really knows fitness and what works for women's bodies. Her cowriter, Sarah Wernick, Ph.D., presents this information so that you say to yourself, "I can do that!" "When women diet," explains Nelson, "at least 25 to 30 percent of the weight they shed isn't fat, but water, muscle, bone, and other lean tissue... and the faster they lose weight, the larger the proportion that isn't fat." Strength training, instead, boosts the metabolic rate -- the rate at which calories are burned -- and every ounce of the weight loss is fat. New evidence indicates that strength training may even prevent bone loss. (See Strong Women, Strong Bones) Strong Women Stay Slim presents a program of strength training, nutritious eating (not dieting!) and an active lifestyle. You'll learn up-to-the-minute information about the value of exercise for physical and emotional health, weight control, quality of life, stress reduction, and even reversal of some signs of aging. The nutritional information and recipes are sensible and palatable -- no deprivation. Since so much of sticking to any program involves motivation, the authors share "the seven mental secrets of successful weight loss" and tips for staying on track. The book illustrates eight very basic strength-training exercises (get more from Strong Women Stay Young) with stretches and suggestions for aerobic activities. If you've had it with the hype of fad diets and inappropriate exercise books, this book will be a refreshing change. It's a research-based program that works, and is presented in a friendly, comfortable style.
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