Does anybody know of any decent nutrition books? I seem to remember a book called something like “Ultimate Sports Nutrition” or similar? I need to lose some weight but continue with my training so advice would be appreciated. I’d try to pick up “The Sport Supplement Review” published by Mile High Press out of Boulder, Colorado. This book is distributed free as a promotional item by Bill Phillips company, EAS sports supplements. This book gives the lay reader a good overview of nutrition and the role diet plays in overall health and well being. It discusses topics like vitamin and mineral supplementation, creatine and protein supplements, but also (and this is what you may be more interested in) how to use regular food, and the hormonal response an optimum diet produces, to give maximum anabolic effects. I highly recommend this book, it is informative, eye-opening, and best of all free.
we wonder why it’s “free”. And just what we want, a bodybuilder and magazine salesman with no academic background in nutrition per se, telling us what he thinks is good nutrition. When you add up the money you’d be paying to “burn fat and build muscle” through the muscle-mag recommendations (many based on “solid research” like a single experiment pumping 100 times a safe amount of a chemical in a rat), you’d be paying thousands of dollars a month. Yeah, real reliable stuff.Personally I think you are full of shit, you criticize Bill Phillips for producing a great book and a magazine because he has no official academic recognition for his work in the field of health and nutrition even though he has an awesome physique (and has inspired thousands to recreate themselves through his “Body of Work” challenge), and then a few sentences later you dump on Robert Haas (who has academic credentials) but has a lousy physique. Make up your mind.
I bet you probably wouldn’t accept the truth if it right in front of you. For your info Bill Phillips and EAS sponsor research projects at several universities in the US, and yes, they use people taking the same friggin’ amounts recommended on the label, not rats taking thousands of times the recommended amount. Why don’t you educate yourself before you try teaching others. And by the way, I’m a 4th year Honours B.Sc. student at a top Canadian university studying Health and Nutrition (hows that for a qualifier, where did you get your degree in nutrition?), trust me, Bill Phillips is on the cutting edge of the future of fitness.
