Review: Good, Basic Health Advice
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 11, 2013
I've been reading a lot of fitness books lately, trying to figure out the best way to lose the bit of extra weight I've put on since leaving my day job and starting my own business. Seems that sitting in front a computer brings with it the same sorts of problems regardless of whether the computer is at a desk at one's home or one's office.I was expecting the book to be geared more specifically towards things you can do at your office to work in exercise (and it does contain some of that, to be sure) and less on the healthy-eating part. In that sense, I felt the book title was a bit misleading and the sole reason I did not give the book a 5 Star review. If I could have, I would have given it 4.5 stars, but there's no way to do a half-star.Beyond that, Office Fitness offers some great, common sense advice about changing your eating habits, what types of food you should eat, what to avoid, and even includes a number of easy recipes to get you started (though he uses the UK measurements in some places, so you'll need to know how to convert those to measurements suitable for US cooking. He does a great job of including Fahrenheit oven degrees where applicable. Thank you for that!)Also included are ways to sneak in exercise at the office as well as things to do outside of the office environment. I don't agree with everything in the book (specifically skipping breakfast) but overall Office Fitness is a good, solid book to get you started.