BIG FAT LIES:
The Truth About Diet, Exercise & More
Spring Seminar, May 2009
With all the books and websites preaching their ideas of how to eat, diet and lose weight, it’s hard to know what to believe. On May 2, New York Times bestselling author Gary Taubes, and renowned fitness expert Dr. Ben Bocchicchio presented “Big Fat Lies: The Truth About Diet, Exercise, Obesity and Body Chemistry.” At the seminar they challenged everything you thought you knew about diet and exercise, and explained the most widely believed myths about how to lose weight.
Revolutionizing the fitness and health industries with the most cutting-edge technology and programs, Dr. Ben Bocchicchio’s new innovative proprietary program is the “Metabolic Makeover,” a combination of a 7-part SMART™ exercise program and a full-body Vascular Massage.
As the nation’s first fitness organization to use EECP System technology for alternative fitness and health purposes (typically used nationwide for cardiac patients to stimulate blood circulation), the Metabolic Makeover completely reprograms a person’s metabolism during a series of one-hour sessions.
This pioneering program is proven to enhance strength and muscle mass, stimulate weight loss, increase energy and immune defenses, and improve overall physical well-being.
The Metabolic Makeover program efficiently reverses the effects of aging and stress, and reverses metabolic processes in common conditions, including high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity and a number of related conditions.
The educational seminar was held at the Doctor’s Fitness Center at 2393 E. Camelback Road near Biltmore Fashion Park.
VIDEO CLIPS
Selections from the "Big Fat Lies" Seminar featuring Dr. Ben Bocchicchio. Click on the image to view the complete clip. A new window will open to play the video. Click on the < back button on the browser menu bar to get back to this page.
High Intensity Training, Muscle Failure and Attaining Threshold
SMART™ Exercise and Muscle "Failure"
The Results of using Dr. Ben's SMART™ Exercise System
GUEST SPEAKERS
Dr. Vincent 'Ben' Bocchicchio As the creator of slow resistance training in 1974, a mainstream fitness technique used by trainers nationwide, Dr. Bocchicchio has been featured or sourced in more than 200 books, articles, medical journals and studies. He was the first exercise physiologist to include his SMART™ Exercise in cardiac and low back rehab programs in the U.S., and is a co-founder of Qi Biosystems.
A highly sought-after fitness consultant, Dr. Bocchicchio has advised on The U.S. Olympic Committee, The National Football League, Major League Baseball, World Team Tennis, numerous major college athletic programs and served as the training program developer for Total Gym™. He holds two PhDs and did post-doctoral work in weight management and body composition at Columbia University.
Gary Taubes Gary Taubes is the author of three books dealing with scientific controversies, including the New York Times best-selling book Good Calories, Bad Calories (Random House, 2007). He has written about science, medicine and health for Science, Discover, the Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, GQ, as well as a host of other publications, and is currently a contributing correspondent with Science and a contributing editor with Technology Review.
Taubes has won numerous awards for his reporting, including three Science-in-Society Journalism Awards given by the National Association of Science Writers -- the only print journalist so recognized -- as well as awards from the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society. His book Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Taubes was educated at Harvard, Stanford and Columbia Universities.
