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Over two million people worldwide are already experiencing the health and performance benefits of the Zone diet. Based on the hormonal consequences of food rather than caloric content, the Zone treats food like a powerful drug. Properly administered, this drug allows you to maintain peak mental alertness throughout the day, increase your energy, and reduce the likelihood of chronic diseaseæ ¬l while losing body fat.
Now, in this essential new Zone reference guide, Barry Sears, provides you with the Zone resources and Food Block information you need to make every meal you eat a Zone meal, including:
How to use and adjust Zone Food to fit your own biochemistry
Zone Food Block! s for every ingredient, including vegetarian and nondairy sources of protein
Zone Food Blocks for fast food and prepackaged supermarket meals
Rules for modifying prepared foods to make them Zoneâ€"perfect
The Ten Zone Commandments for staying in the Zone
Think better, perform better, look better, and live better榥t into the Zone.
Here's the follow-up to
The Zone and
Mastering the Zone. Author Barry Sears, Ph.D., has formulated a way for readers to follow his diet plan (30 percent fat, 40 percent each carbohydrates and protein) by breaking down foods into measurable units, Ã la Weight Watchers. It's designed to make eating on the run--even if you're stopping at McDonald's--a Zone-friendly experience. But it's not exactly a piece of cake.
Anyone who hated word problems in math class may be slightly baffled by the necessary calculations for foods not listed in the charts. For example, if you want to convert a serving! of cereal into Zone blocks, you need to look at the label and! subtra ct the grams of fiber from the total grams of carbohydrate; this gives the total of insulin-promoting carbohydrate. Divide this result by 10. (Although to be accurate, it should be divided by 9, as Sears has assigned 9 grams to each carbohydrate block; he says you may as well round up to 10, since that makes the math easier.) And there you get your Zone block. As long as your total blocks stay within the 40-30-30 ratio, you're in the Zone.
Even more confusing are the measurements for some of the "pre-calculated" foods in the charts. For example, 80 fluid ounces of Rice Dream Rice milk equals 39 carbohydrate blocks and 8 fat blocks. While it's unlikely anyone would guzzle down 10 servings at once, it is likely they'd have a hard time finding this product in the listings in the first place, as it's listed under "milk, nondairy," not "rice milk." Many of the other listings are equally frustrating. To get one carbohydrate block of Schweppes ginger ale, you need ! to drink 3.3 fluid ounces. If you're working with a 12-ounce can, you can do some rounding, but if you have a liter-sized bottle at home, you're going to need a good eye to get that third of an ounce in a measuring cup. It's also hard to believe someone would eat eight-tenths of a slice of Pepperidge Farm bread to get one carbohydrate block, or six-tenths of a teaspoon of Bernstein's Caesar salad dressing to get one fat block. Dieting shouldn't be this difficult.When Perrywinkle and Andromeda try out some new magic tricks, the results are disastrous. Instead of a new pet they create a glop monster, and they accidently make their classmates' hair disappear! Finally they discover that magic works best when they work together.
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More than two million people worldwide are already experiencing the health and performance benefits of the Zone. Based on the hormonal co! nsequences of food rather than the caloric content, the Zone t! reats fo od like a powerful drug that can help you maintain peak mental alertness, increase your energy, and reduce the likelihood of chronic diseaseâ€"â€"all while losing excess body fat. In this essential reference guide, Dr. Barry Sears provides you with the Zone resources and Food Block information you need to make every meal a Zone meal, including:
. How to use and adjust Zone Food Blocks to fit your own unique biochemistry
. Zone Food Blocks for every ingredient imaginable, including vegetarian and nondairy sources of protein
. Zone Food Blocks for fast food, restaurants, and prepackaged supermarket meals
.Rules for modifying prepared foods to make them Zoneâ€"friendly
.The Ten Zone Commandments for staying in the Zone.
