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"The essential diet and fitness guide to lean, ripped abs--including a results-driven 4-week program to lose weight, strengthen your core, and chisel your entire body. Call it a spare tire, muffin top, or paunch. Men and women consistently cite their belly as their biggest problem area--and it is often the toughest final pounds to lose. Not anymore! Whether readers' eating habits have been affected by stress, their bodies have changed with age, or they're constantly doing crunches without results, it's time to blast belly fat the right way. Using the comprehensive, week-by-week eating and exercise plan, readers can lose up to 20 pounds in 6 weeks--and keep them off, forever. The Men's Health Big Book of Abs special features include: - quick, effective routines that replace boring, painful crunches - manly (and healthy) recipes that take less than 15 minutes to prepare! - hundreds of tips on how to emphasize muscle definition and six-pack abs! Including a step-by-step, 4-week eating and exercise plan, easy-to-prepare recipes, and hundreds of exercises, The Men's Health Big Book of Abs is the ultimate guide to a leaner, fitter, sexier body"--