A Week in the Zone: A Quick Course in the Healthiest Diet for You – Burn Body Fat, Fight Disease, and Increase Energy Without Hunger (The Zone, 16)

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 Sears' evolutionary 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'll also discover how the Zone helps to both increase energy and fight heart disease, diabetes, PMS, chronic fatigue, depression, and cancer.

Based on years of scientific research, this plan reveals how to use food to achieve hormonal balance:

• A 7-Day Meal Plan: Start immediately with a week of simple, delicious recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner designed to get you into the Zone without hunger or deprivation.
• Balance Protein and Carbs: Learn the simple eye-and-palm method to create perfectly balanced plates that stabilize blood sugar and eliminate cravings.
• Low-Glycemic Food Choices: Discover which fruits and vegetables are “favorable” carbohydrates and why you should treat pasta, bread, and grains like condiments.
• Disease Prevention and Anti-Aging: Understand the science behind how controlling your hormones can dramatically reduce your risk of chronic illness and help you live a longer, healthier life.

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.