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o 09281 03979 2 www.upscalemaga BEST FAD/QUICK WEIGHT LOSS DIET Ozner: Fad diets have hurt the American public and are not in the best Doctors interest of health or sustaining weight loss. Walden: Are you kidding me? The best quick weight loss diet is the push (trainers and away diet. Push yourself away from the table and stop eating so much. nutritionists, toaD Garcia: The South Beach Diet, it's the most intelligent of the fads. Jenkins: The Mediterranean Diet, [which incorporates] heart healthy pro- teins including fatty fish, greens with olive oil and complex carbs. Know Best BEST LONG-TERM DIET Our all-star panel of health experts Ozner: The Miami Mediterranean Diet. II"mt ~, give you the inside scoop on all Allen: Best suggestion-not to diet. things fitness. Dr. Ro: Dr. Ro's Color Plate System. Smith: The Fat Smash Diet. Im~1I Garcia: The Zone Diet. Dr. Michael D. Ozner is chairman ~. of the American Heart Association BEST AT-HOME EXERCISE EQUIPMENT ~JD(h,:·,.:.lf) of Miami, medical director of Dr. Ro: Wellness and Prevention at Baptist Your steps. t Health South Florida and author of Ozner: Walking shoes. Prevent Your First Heart Attack and The Miami Mediterranean Diet. Garcia: Soloflex. Boyce: Ab-roller.

Dr. Ian Smith is author of the No. Jenkins: Swiss ball. 1 New York Times bestseller The BEST GYM EQUIPMENT Fat Smash Diet, the thriller, The Blackbird Papers, and The Take- Walden: Hell, if you are at the gym you better be using all Control Diet. He is also a diet expert on VH1's Celebrity Fit Club. the equipment there. Jenkins: Power rack-you can work out every body part but most people don't know how to use it. Dr. Oz Garcia is the best-selling Boyce: Treadmill, elliptical machine or Stairmaster author of The Balance and Look and Feel Fabulous Forever, head of BEST AEROBIC EXERCISE health and nutritional services for Ozner: Walking, walking, walking. It is the most natural exercise, Equinox Fitness Clubs worldwide and was twice voted best nutritionist easy on the body and good for young and old. by New York magazine. Walk every day for at least 30 minutes, more if you're trying to lose weight. David Allen is the founder and presi- dent of David Allen Nutrition and is Smith: Cycling, because it takes into account those a leading celebrity nutritionist who who have medical conditions that prevent them can be credited for Janet Jackson's recent transformation. from jogging or doing too much walking. Jenkins: Jump rope. BEST TOTAL BODY WORKOUT

Harvey Walden is known for making Smith: Swimming. VH1's Celebrity Fit Club participants Allen: Yoga is a great full body/mind workout. get off their asses and WORK! The former military man and weapons BEST MOTIVATION expert, has black belts for various types of martial arts and has played Garcia: The idea of adding years to your life is extraordinary. semi-pro American Football as a run- Smith: Look in the mirror or have your doctor review your medical ning back for the U.K's London Mets. risk factors. Dr. Rovenia Brock is author of Dr. Boyce: Pin up pictures of yourself in less than ideal shape so you can envi- Ro's Ten Secrets to Livin' Healthy, the resident nutrition expert at sion the body you really want. BET.com and host of Health Matters, BEST WORKOUT SONG a health and lifestyles program aired on WHUT, Howard University's PBS Garcia: Puffy's Press Play. station. Smith: "Pride (In the Name of Love)Techno Remake" by Clivilles & Cole. Mark Jenkins started International Fitness in 1992, training clients like Boyce: "So Excited" by Janet. D'Angelo, Mary J. Blige, LL Cool J / Jenkins: "I Ain't No Joke" by Eric B.and Rakim. I / and MISSy Elliot. He also co-wrote his auto-biography/workout book Allen: Any song by Janet Jackson. entitled, The Jump Of( 60 Days to a Hip Hop Hard Body. Walden: I love my [Chicago] house music. Dr. Ro: Kirk Franklin's "I've Been Looking

Cliff "Hollywood" Boyce of For You." Hollywood Fitness is a trainer to both BEST PRE-WORKOUT ENERGY BOOSTER celebrities and everyday superstars, including pop/Broadway star Usher Ozner: Water. and songwriter/producer extraordi- naire Bryan Michael Cox (Mary J. Smith: Yogurt or an energy bar. Blige, Beyonce). Boyce: Black coffee/caffeine. H EAVY H 111 ER PRODUCER RODNEY JERKINS DITCHES BAD HABITS AND DROPS 100 POUNDS. BY JOYCE E. DAVIS

advocate for everyone. By the end of "The last few years my work dropped the first month he'd shed 35 pounds. dramatically, but recently I've had six or By addressing his diet and focusing seven hit singles." on cardio (walking and running) for True enough, since he's been on his the first year, the man who started new program, Jerkins has produced out at 350 pounds now clocks in at a radio mainstays like Mary J. Blige's much slimmer 245 pounds a mere 18 "Enough Crying:' Destiny's months later. Child's "Cater 2 U" and "People tell me, 'Now you look good.' Beyonce's "Deja Vu." It's not about looking good, it's about "Now, I'm able to stay up being in shape and being healthy," says and be more energized in Jerkins, who wants to shed at least the studio:' he continues. another 40 pounds from his 5-foot, 7- "Before 1 was tired. The inch frame. world had not "I had the opportunity to work out heard the best with Mike 'IYson for 30 days a few years of Rodney back and it was crazy. He'd wake me up Jerkins every morning at 4 a.m., and we'd work because of out three times a day:' says Jerkins, my weight. stressing that he learned discipline from They were his training with the former heavy- only get- weight-boxing champion. ting a piece Jerkins says the key to his weight of me loss is exercising and eating right, because I which includes a diet of grilled chick- was not en, broccoli, egg white omelets with 100 spinach and at least a gallon of water percent." daily. Rarely stepping foot into a gro- Jerkins cery store before his lifestyle change, is on his Jerkins now shops regularly, reading game now: the labels of every thing he purchases, "I've told and he has nixed some of his favorite everybody-I foods. "Soda and bread were the ene- will be the mies," admits Jerkins. "You know black best in the world folks love bread." as long as I keep The best thing about losing weight myself active on for Jerkins and for music lovers? "Even the treadmill and creatively, I'm at a new high," he says. eating right."

Allen: A piece of fruit. Ozner: Fresh garlic, fresh herbs, Dr. Ro: Half a cup of chopped sun-dried oatmeal. tomatoes, sprinkles BEST AFTER DINNER of crumbled feta, SNACKS Greek olives or home- Garcia: Dark chocolate. made harissa (spicy red pepper Ozner: Fruit, without sauce). question. Garcia: Spices: Thrmeric, cayenne or jenkins: Organic flax seed shallots. chips by Raw Choice or Smith: Tabasco sauce, soy sauce a low carb or crushed peppers. ar protein bar. Boyce: Mrs. Dash or I Can't Dr. Ro: A tablespoon Believe It's Not Butter of peanut jenkins: Raw Choice utter and half an Himalayan Crystal Salt and apple or a handful of herbs. almonds. BEST WAY TO FIGHT Allen: Strawberries. CRAVINGS oyce: Green grapes jenkins: Ice cold water. and low-fat sorbet. And understanding your BEST WAY TO ADD FLAVOR emotional attachment TO FOOD to food.