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Nutrition advocate Charles Stuart Platkin, a.k.a. The Diet Detective, provides food counts and exercise equivalents that make dieting easy, with information you crave and can put into practice immediately. Do you ever wonder how long it takes to burn off those extra calories you just ate or wonder how much choosing a salad over a slice of pizza really matters? Now you'll know.The Diet Detective's Count Downis anexercisecounter that couples the counts of calories, carbs, and fats with the minutes you would need to exercise in order to burn them off. With this book in hand, you can quickly determine whether those extra treats are worth the workout and find "Calorie Bargains," the substitute foods that are just as tasty, but require significantly less exercise to work off. Divided into easy-reference categories, with extensive listings of brand names and restaurants and equivalents for the most common exercises, you can keep it in your desk at work, in your purse, or in the kitchen -- anywhere you'll have easy and quick access to it when you're deciding what to eat.Platkin, Charles Stuart is the author of 'Diet Detective's Count Down 7500 of Your Favorite Food Counts with Their Exercise Equivalents for Walking, Running, Biking, Swimming, Yoga, and Dance', published 2007 under ISBN 9780743298001 and ISBN 0743298004.
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