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Fit As Fido: Follow Your Dog to Better Health |  | Author: Dawn Marcus
Publisher: IUniverse
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 1332166
Media: Paperback
Pages: 144
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.4
ISBN: 0595531016
Dewey Decimal Number: 613
EAN: 9780595531011
ASIN: 0595531016
Publication Date: December 1, 2008
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Product Description
Let your dog teach you to live a happier, healthier, and more fulfilling life! Companionship with your pet can be used as a means and a motivator to increase your own physical and mental fitness. This fun and easy-to-read book provides practical tips for learning healthy lifestyle habits from a four-legged friend. Pooch-proven advice for better living includes methods to adopt successful exercise and dieting strategies, re-focus how you approach food shopping, make sleep a top priority, and reduce harmful stress effects by improving social interactions. Easy-to-learn relaxation techniques, food portion sizes, and sleep needs for every age are included in this book. There are also "dog-approved" recipes that detail why including specific foods in your diet will improve different aspects of your health. Why not follow the lead of your canine personal trainer, and start to enjoy a happier, healthier life, today!
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 Essential reading for the dog-owning couch potato January 12, 2009
Dr. Jonathan Gregory (Ludlow, UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In this delightful new book Dr Marcus draws upon her experience as both a physician and dog-lover, to provide her readers with an entertaining, warm, and informative guide to living a healthier life, by following the example of our canine companions.
Virtually all dog-owners recognise the importance of looking after their pets, and ensuring that they enjoy a healthy diet, adequate exercise (as well as rest), and a stimulating environment that allows for plenty of play and companionship, whether that be in the company of other dogs or of humans.
And yet so often, most of us (I speak as a dog-owner myself) rarely apply the same dedication to looking after ourselves. We eat too much or too little, usually of all the wrong things; we don't take enough exercise, or get enough sleep, and frequently our busy modern lifestyles squeeze out that all-important `me' time, leaving us feeling stressed, unhappy or just plain bored.
Fortunately, Dr Marcus has the answer - which is to treat ourselves as we would treat our pets. In this very readable book, she looks at each of these topics in turn and explains how a healthy diet, sensible exercise regime and sleeping patterns can have a beneficial effect on our health and well-being. More importantly, she shows how the quality of our own lives can be enhanced if we simply imitate our pets' outlook on the world, a place full of interesting new people and experiences, a place to be explored, and enjoyed.
This book is ideal for all those pet-owners who hate self-help books (me included). And to those who don't yet own a dog, I say this; buy this book then go out and get one without delay. It will be the healthiest thing you ever do!
 Fit as Fido: Follow Your Dog to Bette Health January 12, 2009
Richard L. Lansing (Montclair, NJ)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
What an interesting and clever book. We just brought a puppy into the family, for our kids primarily, but also as a way to increase the amount of walking and overall exercise my wife and I get. I then became fascinated by how dogs make an impact on human behavior and social life in general. That led me to this book. It has been perfect for instrucing us on how to incorporate our dog into our household lifestyle in ways that benefit our family's overall health. It elaborates and instructs on the idea of living a healthy lifestyle -- eating, exercising, and sleeping properly, and so forth. Dr. Marcus's knowledge as a physician and her experiences with her new dog Wheatie have enabled her to write a very helpful book on improving one's health. I recommend it to all new and veteran dog owners.
Great Book! January 11, 2009
Marion Francis
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great book with simple, easy to use tips. The chapters are diverse and it is chocked full of great suggestions. It's a fast read and you'll come away with some getting-in-shape tips that are not only easy, but fun. Best of all, it means you get to spend more time with your dog. If you love your dog (and I love mine), you'll run to the bookstore to buy this book.
Great new book January 7, 2009
John P. Williams MD (Pittsburgh, PA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great book for anyone who owns a dog and especially for those who should! Dr marcus has highlighted the most positive attributes of dogs that their owners should emulate. I bought three of these for Christmas presents for my family. Many thanks Dr. Marcus for this excellent tome on animal behavior (human and canine).
John P Williams MD
Practical advice delivered in a fresh, creative way December 10, 2008
College-Selection-Crazed Mom (Pittsburgh, PA United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Being a dog lover and owner myself, I was intrigued by the idea that my Fido could be an inspiration for better health. After reading Fit As Fido, I'm indeed inspired by just how many lessons there are to be learned from my less-stressed four-footed friends. Dr. Marcus takes such a fun-loving approach to these lessons that I found myself skimming right along through the book, enjoying the information and not feeling like it was yet another health care professional lecturing me on what I should and shouldn't be doing. Of course, there is a lot of real data provided to support the book's practical messages, but it all just works together to create a unique and valuable read. Get a copy for yourself and one for each of your favorite animal enthusiasts.
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