Product Description

Written for sports people and everyone leading an active life, Food for Fitness is packed with top nutrition tips, eating plans and quick and easy recipes made from basic foods. The nutrition guide shows you how to boost your energy by constructing your own spots diet, and includes tips for eating 'on the run' and ideas for healthy snacks. It is the perfect companion to the bestselling Complete Guide to Sports Nutrition, also by Anita Bean. An invaluable menu planner and recipe book, Food for Fitness is approved by The Exercise Association, the national governing body for health and fitness in England.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #153791 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Review
'Packed with top exercise and nutrition tips, eating plans and quick and easy recipes made from basic foods. This new edition has been fully updated contains lots of engaging fact boxes and top tips from leading sportspeople and athletes, as well as high quality photography.' Fitpro (May 2007) 'If you are really serious about sport and exercise and want to make sure you are eating the right foods at the right time, Food for Fitness should be your bible [A] brilliant book.' Women's Fitness (November 2007) 'The appropriately surnamed Anita Bean - whose CV includes an appearance on a BBC documentary Should I Be Worried About Sausages? - is back with the third edition of this very useful book, which basically acts as a sports nutrition guide and recipe book all rolled into one. Good show.' Sport (July 2007) 'For those of us who aren't entirely sure what 'basal metabolic rate' is, what GI stands for, nor why we should be eating fat when you're actually trying to lose weight, this book is just the job.' Men's Health magazine (2007)

About the Author
Anita Bean, BSc, R.P.H.Nutr. is one of the UK's most respected sports nutritionists, and is the award winning author of several fitness and exercise books, and co-author Carol Vorderman's Detox for Life, Summer Detox, and Detox Recipes (Virgin Books). She is also co-author of Lorraine Kelly's Baby and Toddler Meal Planner, and author of the Six Week Workout series, Complete Guide to Sports Nutrition, Complete Guide to Strength Training and Healthy Eating for Kids.

Customer Reviews

Look no further
Did I really need another book on nutrition? Probably not. But now I have this one I probably won't look at the others again. Not that "Food For Fitness" contains any ground-breaking information, but it's the best common-sense summary I've come across of the latest findings on healthy eating for active people. If you're browsing for just one book on the subject, look no further. What's more, "Food For Fitness" is so clearly written and beautifully presented that it's a pleasure just to turn the pages. Anita Bean knows her stuff, and she shares it with style and grace. The second half of the book consists of recipes using readily available ingredients and listing all the relevant nutritional information. Whether you want to gain or lose weight, eat for a specific sport or just clear a path through the jungle of conflicting advice on diet and health, this is a great investment.

Many errors and contradictions in the 2008 reprint
Not sure what the other editions of this book are like, but I got the 3rd edition 2008 reprint. Within the first 9 pages of the book (the section on GI), I spotted as many as 11 errors and contradictions. Here are just a couple of examples: boiled potatoes are listed on page 4 as high GI foods and on page 9 as low GI foods; chapatti and pitta bread are listed on page 6 as low GI and on page 7 as moderate GI. The list goes on within the GI section. Not sure if this is the author's fault or if it's just bad or non-existent editing.

The recipe section also contains some errors, sometimes within the ingredient list (using 85 g of flour and 175 g of sugar for brownies turned out to be inedible, swapping the amounts around was fine) and sometimes within the setting of the oven temperature.
Again, not sure if these are just typos, but it makes it very confusing to bake anything according to the recipes listed.

Another disappointment is that none of the recipes list the nutritional value, which in a book on nutrition is - in my opinion - a bad oversight.

Many times the author refers to studies and research done by several universities to back up her claims, but there is no reference list in the book if you are interested in looking up the studies yourself.

If all the errors and contradictions could be corrected, the nutritional value added to the recipes and a reference list included, this book would be great. The sections on nutrition for competitions and training are indeed very good and have helped me with my university work. If you think about buying this book, please make sure you don't get the 2008 reprint. Maybe this is the only edition which contains all these errors and the older editions are fine.

food for fitness
this book is realy good for those who know nothing about fitness foods it breaks down all the nutrition infomation into bit size pieces so it not too daunting and realy helped me with my nutritional intake all in all a very good buy!