Zone Food Blocks: The Quick and Easy, Mix-and-Match Counter for Staying in the Zone - Hardcover

Sears, Barry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060392428 ISBN 13: 9780060392420

Publisher: William Morrow, 1998

Synopsis

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 disease栬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 Blocks 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 Zone–perfect

The Ten Zone Commandments for staying in the Zone

Think better, perform better, look better, and live better榥t into the Zone.

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

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 disease栬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 Blocks 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 Zone–perfect

The Ten Zone Commandments for staying in the Zone

Think better, perform better, look better, and live better榥t into the Zone.

Edition details

• Publisher: William Morrow
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0060392428
• ISBN 13: 9780060392420
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448