Lose Fat With The Zone Diet

Barry Sear's zone diet is not only one of the few diets/ nutritional plans to closely match the recommendations of the American Diabetes Association and the Heart Education group at HeartInfo.org in terms of percentages of the macronutrients protein, carbohydrate and fat. It is also effective in losing weight.

Sears was motivated to develop the zone perfect diet because of his genetic predispostion to heart disease. Through his research on lipids(fats) he came to realise the importance of eicosanoids (hormone like substances that affect the cardiovascular system, the immune system, and the systems related to fat storage). He wanted to develop a way of guiding eicosanoid production so that the favourable, health enhancing eicosanoids were produced in the body (there are also "bad" eicosanoids). The result of that ongoing research is the zone diet.

He writes in "Enter The Zone" (pxiv): "It also occurred to me that since eicosanoids are involved in virtually everything the body does, controlling them might represent a new paradign for health and illness. It seemed to make sense that many of our disease states - heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and cancer, to name just a few - might be the result of imbalances among the eicosanoid hormones."

1. How the zone diet works
2. The basis of the zone diet
3. The dangers and myths of low carb diets
   (which you won't get with the zone diet)
4. The zone diet and glycemic index
5. Is the zone diet a fad diet?