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Zone Diet

February 21st, 2009

Zone Diet Review - Keeps Your Insulin Levels Low

Executive Summary about Zone Diet by Roy Youhon

Is the Zone diet right for you?

The Zone Diet

The Zone Diet

The Zone diet aims to help people lose weight by controlling their insulin levels and giving them optimum nutrition that promotes fat release and peak performance. Unlike Atkins, it is not a low-carbohydrate diet - more of a balanced, good carbohydrate diet.

 According to Sears, this keeps your insulin levels low and helps your body stay in the Zone of peak performance with maximum fat burning.Zone followers eat 5 times a day, 3 meals and 2 snacks.

 The Zone Diet contains 40% carbohydrate, 30% protein, and 30% fat and is known as the 40-30-30 plan.

 The Zone Diet’s approach calls for a return to the diets of our ancestors where meat, fruits, and vegetables are the main dietary foods.

 Sears asserts that by using the Zone Diet, you are actually optimizing the body’s metabolic function. Others argue that the Zone Diet has flawed ratios but Sears argues that the Zone diet is a low-glycemic-load diet that has adequate protein. .

 A critic of the Zone diet such as the AHA (American Heart Association) classifies the Zone Diet as high protein and does not recommend the Zone Diet for weight loss. The AHA issued an official recommendation warning against diets like the Zone Diet. 

The Zone Diet Program Tips

Even doctors recommend the zone dieting for people who want to keep themselves healthy.

 Through the zone diet program, one can rightly balance hormonal levels in the body. An imbalance in one’s hormonal levels can lead to unhealthy weight gain or weight loss. By adhering to a zone diet program, one can curb unhealthy cravings such as excessive carbohydrate cravings (pizza, pasta, bread, etc). Through the zone diet, blood sugar levels will stabilize. If you are on a zone diet, you will need to observe a balanced meal each time.

 Always maintain an abundance of body liquids while on a zone diet. Complement your zone diet program with a healthy lifestyle.

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Diet Zone

February 11th, 2009

Lose Weight Diet - Zone Diet

Executive Summary about Diet Zone by Sardool Sikandar

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The Zone Diet

Diet Zone doesn’t refer to a weight-loss diet. Zone Diet includes calories in 40:30:30 proportions that contain carbohydrates, protein and fat respectively. Zone diet promotes hormonal thinking instead of caloric thinking. Zone diet doesn’t generate weight loss but studies shows that sometimes it can produce weight loss to some extent.

According to Barry Sears,  Diet Zone helps you to live healthy. Zone diet is designed to promote desired hormonal response. Main motive of zone diet is to eat exact balance of carbohydrates and protein. Zone diet offers several benefits like stable blood sugar level, better performance, healthier appearance and clearer mind. Cholesterol levels will improve severely after completing six weeks on zone diet.

 How Does the Diet Zone Work?

Executive Summary about Diet Zone by Michael Fisher

The Zone diet is one of the most popular diets on the market today, mainly because many celebrities use it, and this automatically makes it a fashionable diet in today’s society. However, just because your favorite celebrity swears by a diet plan, it does not mean that it’s the right diet for you. It has been said that the Zone diet is the polar opposite of a vegetarian diet. The Zone Diet is based upon a 40/30/30 theory and popularized in books by biochemist Barry Sears. The Zone Diet is based on the concept of achieving a balance of insulin. By controlling the balance of insulin in the body with the Zone Diet, you increase the loss of fat (weight loss), increase blood flow, increase your physical and mental stamina, and decrease the likelihood of heart disease and diabetes.

The Zone Diet is not as restrictive as many of the other low carb diets on the market today, but it is very hard to follow and stick with the plan. The AHA believes that the Zone Diet is hazardous as it restricts the intake of essential vitamins and minerals present in certain foods. They also contend that the protein ratio in the Zone diet is too high even if the minimal fat ratio is good.

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