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5:2 Fasting and Fitness Easy Science in Layman's Terms
Are you one of the thousands who are trying the revolutionary new way of eating; 5:2?
Ever wondered why fat is so hard to burn?
Ever wondered why you spent a year in the gym getting fitter but not thinner?
Ever wondered which exercise is best and when best to do it?
This book will answer those questions, and much more.
Linda Gruchy joined Kate Harrison’s 5:2 Diet Facebook Group in early October and has lost two stone in weight to date.
The Facebook group has grown from a handful of likeminded people into a very lively group of thousands. Members have asked many diet and health-related questions, not just about the 5:2 way of eating, but about nutrition, fitness and exercise in general.
Linda has a background in Biological Sciences and worked as a fitness consultant in a gym for a number of years. She found herself repeating the same basic science analogies to members of the Facebook group so often that she asked them if she should write a book about it. The answer was a resounding, “Yes please”.
This book is a result of that need, and Linda hopes it will help many people by giving them an easy-to-understand overview of intermittent fasting, diets in general, exercise and fitness.
This book complements the information in Kate Harrison’s “The 5:2 Diet Book” by explaining some of the science of fasting and fitness in easy-to-understand layman’s terms. This book is a companion to, rather than a replacement for the current 5:2 Diet books on the market.
Ever wondered why fat is so hard to burn?
Ever wondered why you spent a year in the gym getting fitter but not thinner?
Ever wondered which exercise is best and when best to do it?
This book will answer those questions, and much more.
Linda Gruchy joined Kate Harrison’s 5:2 Diet Facebook Group in early October and has lost two stone in weight to date.
The Facebook group has grown from a handful of likeminded people into a very lively group of thousands. Members have asked many diet and health-related questions, not just about the 5:2 way of eating, but about nutrition, fitness and exercise in general.
Linda has a background in Biological Sciences and worked as a fitness consultant in a gym for a number of years. She found herself repeating the same basic science analogies to members of the Facebook group so often that she asked them if she should write a book about it. The answer was a resounding, “Yes please”.
This book is a result of that need, and Linda hopes it will help many people by giving them an easy-to-understand overview of intermittent fasting, diets in general, exercise and fitness.
This book complements the information in Kate Harrison’s “The 5:2 Diet Book” by explaining some of the science of fasting and fitness in easy-to-understand layman’s terms. This book is a companion to, rather than a replacement for the current 5:2 Diet books on the market.
260 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 21, 2013
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January 13, 2016
As the author states at the beginning, this book isn't a diet book, it's a book about diet in the broadest sense. The 5:2 diet advocates two fasting days a week, in which a limited calorie consumption of 500 for a woman or 600 for a man is permitted. Apart from the obvious calorie reduction over a week, why would you do this.? The author has a biology qualification and experience of working in a gym and this is fed into the book. It looks not only at the food we put into our bodies but what happens next. Some foods lead to increases or decreases in chemicals in the body, some of which are more desirable than others.
I found this book both interesting and easy to follow and it has periodic hyperlinks for those of us who wish to follow up articles going into greater detail. It boils down to the fact that there's no simple, foolproof way to drop weight and become fit - or we'd all be doing it. The emphasis here is the supremely sensible one that we are all different but the 5:2 way of eating has so much flexibility that it may well work for a great number of people.
I found this book both interesting and easy to follow and it has periodic hyperlinks for those of us who wish to follow up articles going into greater detail. It boils down to the fact that there's no simple, foolproof way to drop weight and become fit - or we'd all be doing it. The emphasis here is the supremely sensible one that we are all different but the 5:2 way of eating has so much flexibility that it may well work for a great number of people.
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