The Omega Rx Zone: The Miracle of the New High-Dose Fish Oil – A Revolutionary Plan for Brainpower, Performance, and Disease Prevention (The Zone, 10) - Softcover

Sears, Barry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 006098919X ISBN 13: 9780060989194

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2003

Synopsis

Introducing the next generation of the Zone―A revolutionary new plan that enhances brainpower, improves physical performance, and builds amazing disease-fighting power

Dr. Barry Sears revolutionized nutritional thinking with his blockbuster Zone books. Now, for the first time Sears presents his amazing new scientific discoveries that take the Zone to a whole new level. With years of research to back him up, he maintains that consuming carefully calibrated amounts of high-quality, pharmaceutical-grade fish oils in combination with the Zone diet will offer unprecedented health benefits.

Research shows that Dr. Sears’ new plan can help to treat such diseases and conditions as cancer, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, obesity, infertility, multiple sclerosis, attention deficit disorder, chronic pain, depression, Alzheimer’s, and more. Dr. Sears’ Omega Zone offers a plan to help readers fine-tune their health to reach an entirely new level of the Zone.

The Omega Rx Zone provides a clear, science-backed path to wellness by showing you how to:

• Harness High-Dose Fish Oil: Discover why pharmaceutical-grade fish oil is what Dr. Sears calls “the miracle drug for the twenty-first century” and how to determine the right dose for you.
• Control Eicosanoids and Insulin: Learn to treat food as the most powerful drug you will ever encounter to balance the ‘superhormones’ known as eicosanoids and stabilize insulin.
• Optimize Omega-3 Fatty Acids: Understand the crucial difference between EPA and DHA—the fats that were key to human evolution and are essential for preventing chronic conditions from heart disease to Alzheimer’s.
• Practice Calorie Restriction Without Hunger: Find out how the only proven method to slow the aging process is easily achieved without hunger or deprivation by balancing protein and carbohydrates at every meal.

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

The Next Generation of the Zone!

Dr. Barry Sears is one of the world's most trusted voices on health, diet, and nutrition. Over the past decade, millions of people worldwide have followed his prescriptions for healthy living through his bestselling books. He introduced the world to the Zone, a state of improved hormonal control that has helped a generation of people lose excess body fat, reverse the aging process, and fight heart disease and diabetes.

In The Omega Rx Zone, Dr. Sears reveals a revolutionary new technological advance that helps treat chronic disease, improves athletic performance, and more. Never before available to the public, pharmaceutical-grade fish oil has the potential to make you a more emotionally stable, healthier person by allowing your brain to work at peak efficiency and controlling the hormonal responses that ultimately govern your body and mind. Drawing upon his own research as well as recently published studies, Dr. Sears shares new understanding of heart disease, cancer, depression, Alzheimer's, attention deficit disorder, chronic pain, Type 2 diabetes, infertility, and multiple sclerosis. Used in conjunction with the Zone program, these findings can help you to:

• Increase brain vitality and longevity
• Maximize physical performance
• Lose weight—and keep it off
• Reverse chronic disease

Edition details

• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 006098919X
• ISBN 13: 9780060989194
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400