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Product Description:
No other nutrition program will enable you to gain muscle and power--while trimming body fat--more effectively than Power Eating, the leading plan for power athletes, strength trainers, and bodybuilders.

Authored by a consultant to NFL and NBA players and world-class bodybuilders, Power Eating combines the most up-to-date scientific and practical advice to address the unique nutritional requirements of the power athlete. The result is an approach that has helped thousands of athletes reach their physique and performance goals--safely and legally.

This third edition incorporates the latest nutrition principles and recommendations, specifically addressing and dispelling the myths about carbohydrate and its role in a power athlete's diet. A revised supplement rating system incorporates new IOC rules and makes the latest findings on vitamins and minerals, muscle-building products, and performance-related herbs easier to find. And the inclusion of more recipes and meal plans will provide greater variety for athletes on specialized eating plans.

Incorporate the Power Eating plan into your training and find out what thousands of athletes already know. Power Eating is more than a book. It's a path to power excellence.

Amazon.com Review:
Beyond the fad weight-loss diets, beyond the bodybuilding mythology about excessive amounts of protein for making muscle, beyond the nonsense that circulates about nutrition in the world today, there is a body of scientific knowledge that shows us a road map to our goals. For example, Susan Kleiner shares a formula to determine exactly how much protein the bodies of strength trainers and bodybuilders can use before storing the extra as fat, why amino-acid supplements are a very expensive and somewhat inferior substitute for simple foods such as yogurt and chicken, and why carbohydrates, not protein, are the most important nutrients for muscle building. Many of the recommendations seem so simple--"eat fruits and vegetables," for example--but Power Eating shows us that sometimes the oldest advice in the world is perfectly aligned with modern nutritional science, whereas the complex solutions dreamed up by bodybuilding gurus and supplement manufacturers don't always stand up to rigorous analysis.

Rating : - Practically worthless
I had high expectations of this book. I expected it to be backed up by science, considering the blub and credentials of the author. I followed its recommendations for a while. Result? I got fatter and more slothful, rather than fit and more healthy. The author, for all her Ph.D.'s and R.D.'s seems utterly incapable of doing anything but regurgitating the ultra high carbohydrate party line.

Her dietary recommendations might work for a heavily muscled teenager who does a lot of aerobic exercise. I wouldn't say it would do such people any good, but it might not hurt them too much. For anyone else: anyone interested in changing their body composition for the better, this is actively harmful stuff. Her recommendations on protein intake for example are absurd. She recommends bodybuilders use 1.6 gram of protein per kilogram, despite quoting research which says that people who eat more protein than this gain more muscle! Presumably, this value is some kind of compromise from the USRDA of 0.8 g/kilogram. Why not just tell people to eat the right amount of protein? She does, to her credit, recognize that people need more protein when they're trying to cut fat, but even then, I have to wonder at her logic. Only 2g/kg? And you're supposed to eat high glycemic foods like toast while dieting? Are you insane?

There is some decent advice buried here. Don't drink booze. Drink water. Take vitamins. Eat carbs after you work out. Soft drinks are dumb. But really, there's so much basic nonsense here, the book has no practical value. Other obvious pieces of advice: use whey protein, take fish oil, eat a LOT of protein; the entire concept of glycemic index, food allergies: missing in action.