GETTING HEALTHY AND FIT IS THE
EASY PART.
The hard part is getting
motivated to making the commitment. In Get your act
together! Frank Addleman, best selling author of The
Winning Edge, takes you down the path towards a healthier lifestyle. Forget the myths, excuses, and
procrastination, Get your act together Will show you in layman terms the power
of food and exercise in fighting off such diseases as heart disease,cancer,
diabetes, and obesity. There are no arbitrary deadlines here: you move forward at your oun
pace, making lifestyle and dietary changes that will lead you to optimum health
and wellness.
GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER : WILL SHOW YOU:
- FOURTEEN SIMPLE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR OPTIMUM HEALTH.
- HOW EATING THE
RIGHT FOODS BECOMES NATURES MEDICINE
- THE WONDERFUL BIOLGICAL CHANGES THAT OCCUR IN YOUR
BODY WITH SIMPLE EXERCISE AND DIET.
- WHY YOU SHOULD BURY ALL YOUR EXCUSES, MYTHS AND ASSUMTIONS
ABOUT DIET AND EXERCISE.
- WHY TWO PEOPLE :ONE SEDEDARY, AND ONE FIT, CAN LOOK
SO DIFFERENT YET WEIGH THE SAME
- HOW MUSCLE TISSUE SPEEDS UP YOUR CALORIC BURN--24HOURS
- A DAY!
- HOW TO THINK HEALTHY TO BE HEALTHY, AND MUCH, MUCH,
MORE!
Frank Addleman is professor emeritus at Santa Ana college in California where he taught nutrition and fitness in the sports medicine department from 1965-1997. He is also a popular speaker on the lecture circuit taking his unique “motivational nutrition/fitness’ theme to national sports clinics, corporations, health and medical conferences, and numerous city firefighter agencies. His presentations go beyond the informative. With humorous overtones he not only stimulates an interest in health but inspires and motivates his audiences to take control of their lifestyle to optimize their health and wellbeing.
Along with his teaching and writing frank was also a successful college wrestling coach. His teams produced numerous state champions, All Americans, several national champions, and a state title. For his endeavors he was inducted into four ‘hall of fame’ including the national wrestling coaches hall of fame. Frank and his wife Betty live in Long Beach, California.
I would always start my class by
saying, “This is one of the most important classes you will ever take.” Now, I know that sounds a bit self-serving,
but here’s the reasoning. We all have to
deal with food every day. Not now and
then or every week, but every day. Your
first decision in the morning is what to eat, should I eat, or do I have time
to eat. This is followed by decisions
about lunch, dinner and snacks throughout the day. Then there’s grocery
shopping, choosing restaurants, fast foods, television ads, diet books,
talk shows on food, food channels, on cooking, etc. We all deal with food daily, and we will
until the day we die. I think that if
you are going to be that involved with something, you should understand it
well. Food must be important for us to
have to deal with it so often. The
problem is that most of us don’t deal with it very well. Most of us make poor choices; not because we
don’t care. We just don’t always know or
make the good choices.
Most food choices are made by
taste and learned behavior. If it tastes
good and we are taught to eat it, that’s what we eat, and we usually do so
until we’re full. I want you to start thinking about what you eat and why you
eat it. After you finish reading this
book, you will also know what’s best to eat.
Your selection of food choices has a tremendous effect on your overall
health and well-being. It is important
to understand this process.
Although many people like and
enjoy healthful foods, we are now at a point where unhealthful choices are
becoming more popular. In our society,
obesity is at epidemic proportions. One
in every three adults is obese. Two of
three Americans are overweight, as are a high proportion of children. Chronic disease is commonplace. The food choices you make and the amount of
exercise you do are the two most important lifestyle factors that affect these
trends. It's important that you take
control of these lifestyle factors.