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The Tampa Tribune

Published: January 25, 2008

Prevention magazine thinks it has hit the busy woman's trifecta with its new "Shortcuts to Big Weight Loss" book and DVD by Chris Freytag. (The paperback from Rodale retails at $21.95; the DVD is $14.95. You can buy both on amazon.com for $27.92.)

The set targets weight loss — a big hook to folks this time of year. But it uses two other magnets to pull you in: It aims to help you tone up AND provide shortcuts in doing so.

Though the set claims to help people lose 25 pounds or more, it's not a cookbook or detailed eating plan. Instead, it aims to help users organize a schedule, eat better with "clean eating shortcuts," and squeeze in fast fat-burning exercise sessions every day of the week.

The program is geared toward women who have no time to dissect a diet plan. Readers are directed to photocopy weight-loss fitness logs.

List lovers will identify with it. Those who hate rules may feel too restricted.

Page after page of 10-minute exercises are listed in easy-to-read charts, and photos accompany many of the exercises. The DVD helps even more, walking exercise-phobic types through 10-minute shape-up workouts for belly, butt and thighs.

A staff report

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