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Eat To Win For the 21st Century
An updated new version of the best-selling sports nutrition bible incorporates cutting-edge techniques and research in sports nutrition to help athletes eat for peak fitness, providing twenty-eight days of menus, fifty delicious peak peformance recipes, diets for specific sports, and advice on how to evaluate blood chemistry profiles. Original.
368 pages, Paperback
First published July 28, 2004
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November 14, 2024
"Eat to Win" is an updated version of the author's sports nutrition book initially published in the 1980's. This book affords the reader a commonsense approach to nutrition which has been tested and established through formal medical study. The author compares and contrasts his diet with the Atkins and other protein fat diets warning of the danger of media driven distortions. The author also includes menus, recipes and specific sports diets in addition to how to evaluate your specific blood chemistry. I would highly recommend this book
January 18, 2011
A good book about the fundamentals of diet. Although right, I think Haas went on and on how his dietary program is superior to the Atkins program. Any person who is serious about nutrition will already know what is in this book that is eat veg, fruits, and whole grains not only for their vitamins and minerals but also for their phyto-nutrients. He also states that complex carbohydrates is the only think that fuels athletes to perform.
I think the most interesting thing about the book is his assertion that eat to win diet goes hand in hand with exercising because the more one exercise the more one has store complex carbohydrates as glycogen stores instead of fat. He states that given one doing a moderate pace exercise, one will lose approximately half-fat and half-glycogen stores. So if one keeps fat levels down to metabolic life levels and expends glycogen stores continuously, then one complex carbohydrates can never be converted to fat. Instead complex carbohydrates can only be stored as glycogen in muscles and the liver.
I think the most interesting thing about the book is his assertion that eat to win diet goes hand in hand with exercising because the more one exercise the more one has store complex carbohydrates as glycogen stores instead of fat. He states that given one doing a moderate pace exercise, one will lose approximately half-fat and half-glycogen stores. So if one keeps fat levels down to metabolic life levels and expends glycogen stores continuously, then one complex carbohydrates can never be converted to fat. Instead complex carbohydrates can only be stored as glycogen in muscles and the liver.
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