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HGV Man Review
John Litchfield
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Now this is something of a rarity. While the shelves seem
packed with books and magazines aimed primarily at helping women
to lose weight and improve their health, little attention has
been paid to helping us blokes.
This may be that it is still not seen as “the done thing” for
a man to be health conscious or to worry about the excess
baggage he’s carrying around his waist. However, when 65.4% of
men in the U.K are now overweight and obesity in men has
rocketed to 21% from just 6% in 1980, many are ignoring this
stigma and are looking to improve their lifestyle to correct or
stop the onset of ill health.
If you fall into this category, this new Haynes title,
written in the style of their successful series of car
maintenance manuals could well be the best way to start you off
on the right road.
Packed with sound advice and information, HGV Man has been
written by Dr.Ian Banks, President of the Men’s Health Forum,
and it is worth noting that while compiling this book, he lost 3
stone himself.
Rather than being a book purely about how to lose weight, HGV
Man has a sizeable section on diseases and other medical
problems that can be caused by being overweight and from leading
an unhealthy lifestyle, helping motivate the reader to steer
away from the greasy takeaways and towards healthier options.
There is also advice on increasing your exercise level,
particularly for those of us who may have been inactive for some
time and need to start slowly.
One flaw may be that the book contains too much information
and not all of it will be of interest to every reader. If you’re
just looking to do an oil change, there’s no point in reading
the section of your car manual on how to fix your carburettor.
If you find yourself reading something that doesn’t seem
relevant to the changes you want to make in your life right now,
skim ahead and you’re bound to find something that is. Once
you’ve fixed a couple of aspects of your lifestyle, you can
always go back later and look at the rest.
So whether you are looking at improving your fuel efficiency,
losing a little luggage from the boot or getting a better
performance out of your engine, this could be just what you are
looking for to get you running more smoothly.
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