A Week in the Zone: A Quick Course in the Healthiest Diet for You

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Harper Collins, Jun 29, 2004 - Cooking - 192 pages

A national bestseller for more than three years in hardcover, The Zone has introduced millions of people worldwide to a breakthrough approach to dieting based on Novel Prize–winning scientific research. Treating food as the most powerful drug available, The Zone plan shows how food, when used unwisely, can be toxic. Used wisely however, it will take anyone into the Zone, a state of exceptional health familiar to champion athletes.

Now the benefits of Barry Sears߲evolutionary program can be experienced in just one week! With A Week in the Zone, everyone can start on the path to permanent weight loss and learn how to burn body fat, and keep it off – without deprivation or hunger.

They'llalso discover how the Zone helps to both increase energy and fight heart disease, diabetes, PMS, chronic fatigue, depression, and cancer.

 

Contents

WHAT IS THE ZONE?
1
YOUR KEYS TO ENTERING THE ZONE
5
GETTING STARTED IN THE ZONE
15
A ZONE MAKEOVER FOR YOUR KITCHEN
26
RECIPES FOR A WEEK IN THE ZONE
36
MORE QUICK AND EASY ZONE BREAKFASTS LUNCHES DINNERS AND SNACKS
64
DINING OUT IN THE ZONE
75
THE SOY ZONE
80
FINETUNING THE ZONE
108
SUCCESS STORIES FROM THE ZONE
119
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
124
WHY HIGHPROTEIN DIETS FAIL
138
SCIENTIFIC VALIDATION OF THE ZONE
143
THE FUTURE OF YOUR HEALTH
147
ZONE FOOD CHOICES THE ZONE
160
BIBLIOGRAPHY
170

LIVING LONGER AND LIVING BETTER
87
ZONE SUPPLEMENTS
97
INDEX
177
Copyright

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A Week in the Zone
Barry Sears,Deborah Kotz
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Barry Sears,Deborah Kotz
Limited preview - 2000
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Barry Sears,Deborah Kotz
No preview available - 2000

Common terms and phrases

½ cup ½ teaspoon ¼ cup 1½ oz 1½ teaspoons olive acid amount Anti-Aging Zone apple balance beta-carotene blood sugar body fat bread Breakfast broccoli calories Canadian bacon carbohy carbohydrate celery chicken breast chickpeas chopped consume cooking cups 1½ cups dessert dietary Dinner drained drug effect on insulin egg whites eicosanoids excess insulin exercise fat loss fish oil following the Zone garlic glucagon glycemic load grains and starches grams of carbohydrate grams of protein green pepper heart disease heat high-protein diet hormonal increase Ingredients Instructions insulin levels lemon juice lettuce low-fat protein medium minutes monounsaturated fat mushrooms niacin oatmeal olive oil ounces lean pasta protein powder salad sauce sauté pan Serve sliced snack soy protein supplement tablespoon taste teaspoon dried teaspoons olive oil tofu tomato tuna unfavorable carbohydrates vegetable spray vegetarian vinegar Vitamin B12 Vitamin E yellow onions Zone blocks Zone Diet Zone Food Blocks Zone meal

Popular passages

Page 152 - Influence of dietary fat composition on development of insulin resistance in rats.‎
Appears in 57 books from 1872-2008
Page 151 - Gallagher SK, Johnson LK, Lykken GI. 1995. High- versus low-meat diets: Effects on zinc absorption, iron status, and calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, nitrogen, phosphorus, and zinc balance in postmenopausal women.‎
Appears in 15 books from 1996-2006
Page 152 - Jain, SK, K. Kannan, and G. Lim. "Ketosis (acetoacetate) can generate oxygen radicals and cause increased lipid peroxidation and growth inhibition in human endothelial cells.‎
Appears in 6 books from 2001-2005
Page 148 - B., A. Tchernot, P. Mauriege, B. Cantin, P.-J. Lupien, and J.-P. Depres. "Fasting insulin and apolipoprotein B levels and low density particle size as risk factors for ischemie heart disease.‎
Appears in 4 books from 2002-2006
Page 4 - On the other hand, if insulin levels are too low, your cells begin to starve because a certain amount of insulin is required to drive life-sustaining nutrients into your cells.‎
Appears in 2 books from 2002-2004

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About the author (2004)

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.

Bibliographic information

TitleA Week in the Zone: A Quick Course in the Healthiest Diet for You
The Zone
AuthorsBarry Sears, Deborah Kotz
Editionillustrated
PublisherHarper Collins, 2004
ISBN0060741902, 9780060741907
Length192 pages
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