The Exercise Cure: A Doctor's All-Natural, No-Pill Prescription for Better Health and Longer Life Author: Jordan Metzl | Language: English | ISBN:
1623364329 | Format: EPUB
The Exercise Cure: A Doctor's All-Natural, No-Pill Prescription for Better Health and Longer Life Description
- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Rodale Books (December 23, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1623364329
- ISBN-13: 978-1623364328
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
What the world doesn’t need is yet another book telling us how good exercise is for us. In spite of its strenuous attempts to be different, I am afraid that Jordan Metzl’s The Exercise Cure falls in that “do we really need this” category.
Before I send this book back to Amazon for a refund, I have given it a fair shot, I think, and see at least three problems with this book.
First, and this is admittedly cosmetic, the layout of the book is most disconcerting. It’s as if an over-enthusiastic teenager had become hooked on all the things she can do with her new page layout program. Virtually every page has some kind of graphic insert, side bar, or specialty box. At times I found myself flipping back from page to page to try to figure out where I was and what I was supposed to be reading.
But then again, that kind of distraction may be a blessing, since the text itself is very difficult to read. Set in two columns on each page and in a 9-point font, my feeling is that if your eyes are young enough to read this book, you probably don’t needed it. To compound matters, the text shifts from a serif to a san-serif font on virtually every page, and then presents those sections of san-serif fonts in a nearly impossible to read light grey type.
The second problem with this book is the implied standard we are apparently to hold ourselves to. The author is quite proud of the fact that he has completed 30 marathons and 11 Ironman triathlons (this claim is on the cover and is repeated early on in the book itself). To make matters worse, the first case study the book presents is of a young woman who originally weighted 330 pounds and through the miracle of exercise turned her life around and has now completed 3 marathons and 29 half-marathons.
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