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many calories. What's more, we have access to so much more food and
more kinds of food than Americans did 50 or more years ago. In 1957,
for example, the typical hamburger was 1 ounce of cooked ground beef;
today, it weighs 6 ounces. Today, the typical American consumes 45
more pounds of added sugars than he did in the 1950s. So how do we
enjoy the kind of meal we rightly deserve without consuming loads of
calories we don't need?
That's where this chapter can make life easy. Each of the recipes
here is based on the 12 Abs Diet Powerfoods; each is packed with fat-
burning, muscle-building, hunger-satisfying nutrients. Each of the
recipes in this chapter in particular looks deliciously impressive—as
though you've spent years training in Hell's Kitchen. And the majority of
them take your busy life into consideration: They can be whipped up in
no time at all.
Now, a caveat: Just because you can cook up dinner in no time
doesn't mean you should wolf down dinner in no time. One of the best
ways to bust calories from your diet is to slow down while you're eating.
A study at the University of Rhode Island found that consciously
slowing down between bites decreases a person's calorie intake by 10
percent. And a University of Massachusetts study found that when you
eat while watching TV, you scarf down an average of 288 more calories.
(Just watching American Idol twice a week at dinner can cost you 2
pounds over the course of a single season—or approximately the same
weight by volume as Ryan Seacrest's hair gel.)
And while these easy-to-make, nutrition-packed, fat-busting
dinners are all delicious, if you're following the Abs Diet principles—
fueling up throughout the day with six smart, strategic meals and snacks
—you won't be ravenous the second you walk through the door and you
won't be tempted to pig out at dinnertime. That's important, because
after dinner, you've got a job to do.
