Book Review: It's about exercise, not diets

Book Review:

The Belly Fat Cure, by Jorge Cruise

Just because a diet book is on the New York Times best-selling list, doesn't mean you should buy it because it sounds cool and there is a cool looking guy on the cover.

At "Diets-Suck" - we can't recommend this title because it is far too simplistic and too much about meal habit breaking, not what it takes to change your bad habits.

Example recommendation from TBFC: don't eat or order the IHOP Double Blueberry Pancakes (BELLY BAD), instead make it at home using fresh, natural and better ingredients (BELLY GOOD). The meal comparisons are too easy to make. The personal initiative it takes to make the change is just too hard for the average over-weight American.

Realistically, this book should be retitled to something like "Obvious Meal Planning for DUMMIES."

Here's another pretty basic thought from the author, Jorge: "Frozen meals often have a long list of preservatives with names you don't understand...they can also add excessive amounts of sodium." (p.134)

Well .... duuuuuuh. If you don't know that you have little hope in eating well and getting beyond the frozen food treadmill (pun).

I will give him some reps ..... saying he isn't reluctant to negatively mention Weight Watchers and many restaurants that pretend to be on your side, diet-wise. It often isn't the case with the food and the ingredients they serve. They "improve" the taste of their meals in many ways (which keeps you eating and coming back for more) that end up with more and more calories.

But, if you're the type of person who consistently buys packaged frozen meals, you're probably the type that doesn't exercise and probably the type that buys a new diet book each year like "The Belly Fat Cure." Good luck!

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