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

    By Charles Stuart Platkin

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    THE COST OF A CALORIE REVEALED

    - CALORIE SHOPPING with 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? Consider this: what if the nutritional labels on your favorite foods spelled out exactly what you'd have to do to burn those calories?

    Well, nutrition and public health advocate, Charles Stuart Platkin's new book, THE DIET DETECTIVE'S COUNT DOWN, 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!

    Examples of an Exercise Equivalent (The book contains more than 7500 listings in an easy to use table format w/ Calories, Carbs and Fat, walking, running, biking, swimming, yoga and dance):

    • 1 double-stuffed Oreo cookie = 18 minutes of walking
    • 1 handful of chips = 26 minutes of dancing
    • 1 slice of chocolate cake = 48 minutes of biking
    • 1 candy bar = 32 minutes of swimming
    • 1 soda = 48 minutes of yoga
    • 1 tablespoon of butter = 11 minutes of running
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtria Books
    Release dateJan 2, 2007
    ISBN9781416548416
    The Diet Detective's Count Down: 7500 of Your Favorite Food Counts with Their Exercise Equivalents for Walking, Running, Biking, Swimming, Yoga, and Dance
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    Charles Stuart Platkin

    Charles Stuart Platkin, J.D., M.P.H., is one of the country's leading public health advocates, whose syndicated nutrition and fitness column,"The Diet Detective," appears in more than 165 daily newspapers across the country. He is also the founder of DietDetective.com, an online health and fitness network. Platkin is the author of Breaking the Pattern, Breaking the Fat Pattern, and Lighten Up.

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      The Diet Detective's Count Down - Charles Stuart Platkin

      Introduction: What Are Exercise Equivalents?

      Have you ever found yourself debating whether or not to buy just one bag of chips? Or grab a little candy bar for the road? Consider this: what if the nutritional labels on your favorite foods spelled out exactly the amount of activity you would have to engage in to burn those calories? It might change your shopping and snacking habits.

      We all know we’re supposed to reduce our calorie intake and increase our physical activity to lose weight—so why is it that, as a country, we’re still getting fatter? Maybe it’s because we have no idea what a calorie really represents. Despite the ubiquitous promotion of weight-loss campaigns and diets, the concept of a calorie remains somewhat nebulous. What if the Food and Drug Administration required restaurants and food manufacturers to put an exercise equivalent on menus and food labels? Instead of calories, the labels would tell us how long we’d have to exercise to burn off what we were about to eat.

      Just think about the implications. Knowing that we have to walk for fourteen hours, roughly forty-three miles, in order to burn off one pound of fat would certainly increase the likelihood of our skipping dessert. After all, it’s much easier to imagine passing up a day of overeating ice cream, chips, and fried chicken than it is to see oneself walking forty-three miles.

      That’s why I decided to write this book. The idea is to learn the costs of what you’re eating. My goal is not to sit here and tell you which foods you should or shouldn’t be eating. Of course some carbohydrates (such as whole grains, fruits, and vegetables) and some fats (such as unsaturated as opposed to saturated) are better than others. And yes, eating protein can help you control cravings and keep you feeling full. But in the end, long-term weight control is about energy regulation or how many calories you consume as opposed to how many you burn.

      Sometimes I’m asked what my diet philosophy is—low carb, low fat, diet or no diet, glycemic index, or calorie counting. The answer is that my philosophy doesn’t matter much, because it’s really about what works for each individual behaviorally. What are you willing to do for the rest of your life? This book can help you make better choices. So whether you’re on a low- or a high-carb diet, this book can help you recognize the better calorie deals—or Calorie Bargains. It will also help you see those that are worse—or Calorie Rip-Offs. But again, these are a matter of individual preference. You might look at a big, fat, juicy steak and say, Wow, this is really worth the ten hours of walking it will take to burn it off, while someone else might say, Forget it. The chicken breast will fill me up just as well.

      Read on and use this book as a fun and entertaining reference that can make you much more aware of the costs and benefits of the foods you eat. And the next time you’re faced with a box of Double Stuf Oreos, you’ll have a real-life, quantifiable basis for deciding whether or not to stuff one more cookie down your throat. You may think that this kind of information will ruin the pleasure you take in eating, but it’s quite the contrary. Although knowing the true value of your food choices may be uncomfortable at first, choosing your personal Calorie Bargains will actually change the way you feel about food and make what you do eat more, not less, enjoyable.

      Even Lettuce Has Calories to Burn

      Knowing the exercise equivalents of lettuce and the 7,500 other foods in this book serves a dual purpose. First, it gives you a chance to see that eating any food provides energy—energy to help you live. For instance, knowing that one apple provides enough energy to keep walking for about nineteen minutes—well, that tells you something. Secondly, including many different foods, both high- and low-calorie options, helps you make choices. If you see that it takes three hours to walk off an ice cream cone and only thirty minutes for a piece of fruit, don’t you think that would influence your decision? Is the ice cream worth that much more? Maybe to you it is, but at the very least you’re making an informed decision, which will lead you to make better decisions in the long run.

      Think of it this way: what if you went to a foreign country and walked into a furniture store. You love what you see, but everything is priced in a foreign currency—dowleys. The price tag on the couch you adore reads 5 million dowleys—what does that mean? What is the price of the couch? You really don’t have any idea, do you? It could be $500, or could be $5,000, or even $15,000. Now you might be able to guess that based on the quality it is within a certain range, but that would be a pretty wide range. If you found out the couch was only $500, you’d be excited and you’d definitely buy it. But if, on the other hand, it was $15,000 and out of your budget, you would probably pass it up because it just wasn’t affordable.

      Don’t Worry: You Don’t Have to Swim for Fifteen Hours to Burn Off What You Ate Today

      Remember, you don’t start out with

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