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The Zone: A Dietary Road Map to Lose Weight Permanently : Reset Your Genetic Code : Prevent Disease : Achieve Maximum Physical Performance (Hardcover)
by Barry Sears, Ph.D., Bill Lawren
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Author: Barry Sears, Ph.D., Bill Lawren
Publisher: Regan Books; 1st edition
Pub. in: June, 1995
ISBN: 0060391502
Pages: 328
Measurements: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00412
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- Awards & Credential -
# 1 New York Times Bestseller with 5 million copies sold. |
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The Zone is a new, more thorough, take on an old idea - the paleolithic diet. It isn't a hugely radical idea - just a balanced diet. The Zone advocates eating 40% carbs, 30% protein and 30% monounsaturated fat, spread over the course of a day, in order to avoid huge fluctuations in blood sugar and binge/craving cycles. It also advocates eating more fruits and vegetables and less refined sugars and grainy carbs. Unlike other books touting the paleolithic diet, The Zone explains the reasoning behind it and gives specific guidelines to calculating each individuals' dietary requirements. It's also easy to implement with some good 'rules of thumb' - Sears doesn't advocate being fanatical about it.
The premise of the book is simple:
1. Virtually all functions in your body are controlled by a group of hormones called eicosanoids.
2. Hormones work in pairs that counterbalance each other so you don't get too much of any kind of activity in the body.
3. These hormone pairs get out of balance if we don't eat balanced meals, and eat them frequently enough.
4. Dr. Sears figures the best balance is this: figure out your individual protein needs, then eat approximately this ratio at every meal: for every 7 grams of protein, 9 grams of carbohydrate (preferably fruits & vegetables rather than starches), and 1 1/2 grams of monounsaturated fat. He believes this to be the ideal ratio for maintaining balance of your eicosanoids, and thus, all functions in your body.
5. If you follow this eating style, according to Dr. Sears, you will lose body fat and gain muscle mass until you reach your body's ideal balance. Then you will hold steady.
6. Since eicosanoids control every body system, an imbalance may contribute to virtually every problem in the human body, including diabetes, hypoglycemia, insomnia, cancer, heart disease, etc. Therefore, keeping (or returning to) proper balance of eicosanoids is extremely important to all aspects of health. This may sound like an inappropriately sweeping statement, and it hasn't been tested, but it is the logical, inescapable conclusion based on how eicosanoids affect us.
According to Dr. Barry Sears, "The Zone" is "that mysterious but very real state in which your body and mind work together at their ultimate best." Based on Nobel Prize-winning research, this book helps readers reach this state by teaching them groundbreaking nutritional principles. The basic premise is simple: calorie counting doesn't work. Maintaining the correct ratio of fats (yes, fats), proteins, and carbohydrates is what's important.
Designed to take the reader beyond wellness and into truly optimal health, Dr. Sears' life plan helps people lose weight permanently, avoid disease, enhance mental productivity, achieve maximum physical performance, and balance and control hormone and insulin levels. The plan is easy to follow - there are no rigid menus, just clear, sensible guidelines on how to create a personal nutrition program. With sample recipes (such as old-fashioned oatmeal and salmon mousse), a list of good and bad carbohydrates, recommendations on convenience foods, and tips on eating out are also included.
Like most other popular dietary programs, The Zone created a lot of debates among the readers and practitioners. While we believe that this program is sure to yield impressive results if you exercise discipline in following the guide, we suspect that the reason why some people hate it is because they can’t stand the restrictions. And understandably, failure to work through the program sometimes results in misinterpretation.
Target readers:
Everyone who cares about their diet, nutrition and health.
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Dr. Barry Sears is recognized as one of the world's leading medical researchers on the hormonal effects of food. He is the author of the number one New York Times bestseller The Zone as well as Mastering the Zone, Zone-Perfect Meals in Minutes, Zone Food Blocks, A Week in the Zone, The Age-Free Zone, The Top 100 Zone Foods, The Soy Zone, The Omega Rx Zone, Zone Meals in Seconds, and What to Eat in the Zone. His books have sold more than five million copies and have been translated into twenty-two languages in forty countries. He continues his research on the inflammatory process as the president of the nonprofit Inflammation Research Foundation in Marblehead, Massachusetts. The father of two grown daughters, he lives in Swampscott, Massachusetts, with his wife, Lynn.
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From the Publisher:
For years experts have been telling Americans what to eat and what not to eat. Fat, they told us, was the enemy. Then it was salt, then sugar, then cholesterol... and on it goes.
Americans listened and they lost - but not their excess fat. What they lost was their health and waistlines. Americans are the fattest people on earth... and why? Mainly because of the food they eat.
In this scientific and revolutionary book, based on Nobel Prize-winning research, medical visionary and former Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher Dr. Barry Sears makes peak physical and mental performance, as well as permanent fat loss, simple for you to understand and achieve.
With lists of good and bad carbohydrates, easy-to-follow food blocks and delicious recipes, The Zone provides all you need to begin your journey toward permanent fat loss, great health and all-round peak performance. In balance, your body will not only burn fat, but you'll fight heart disease, diabetes, PMS, chronic fatigue, depression and cancer, as well as alleviate the painful symptoms of diseases such as multiple sclerosis and HIV.
This Zone state of exceptional health is well-known to champion athletes. Your own journey toward it can begin with your next meal. You will no longer think of food as merely an item of pleasure or a means to appease hunger. Food is your medicine and your ticket to that state of ultimate body balance, strength and great health: the Zone.
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Muscle Media (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-05 00:00>
It's powerful 'how-to' information based on very complex science, approaching the subject of food in a way that has not been done before. ... After reading this, you will have gone a long way to getting your own prescription for food. |
Brntwd (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-05 00:00>
Why is the nation that follows the popular dietary rules continuing to get fatter? Dr. Barry Sears believes he has the answer, and his recent best-seller, Enter the Zone, gives a detailed and convincing explanation... The exciting truth of the controversial diet is that it really just calls for balance and a lot of common sense ... the information and scientific approach just may convince you. |
Playboy (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-05 00:00>
Sears' advice flies in the face of conventional wisdom, but recent studies support his radical theories, and his credentials are solid... It simply takes us back to the good old days, before carbo-mania swept the land. |
The Ellenville Press (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-05 00:00>
Dr. Sears, a former MIT researcher, followed some Nobel prize-winning research and developed a dietary roadmap that causes permanent weight loss, is anti-aging and healthful ... These books are well worth reading, and no surprise they have sold over three million copies and just stay on the bestseller lists. |
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