For years experts have been telling Americans what to eat and what not to eat. Fat, they told us, was the enemy. Then it was salt, then sugar, then cholesterol... and on it goes.
Americans listened and they lost -- but not their excess fat. What they lost was their health and waistlines. Americans are the fattest people on earth... and why? Mainly because of the food they eat.
In this scientific and revolutionary book, based on Nobel Prize-winning research, medical visionary and former Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher Dr. Barry Sears makes peak physical and mental performance, as well as permanent fat loss, simple for you to understand and achieve.
With lists of good and bad carbohydrates, easy-to-follow food blocks and delicious recipes, The Zone provides all you need to begin your journey toward permanent fat loss, great health and all-round peak performance. In balance, your body will not only burn fat, but you'll fight heart disease, diabetes, PMS, chronic fatigue, depression and cancer, as well as alleviate the painful symptoms of diseases such as multiple sclerosis and HIV.
This Zone state of exceptional health is well-known to champion athletes. Your own journey toward it can begin with your next meal. You will no longer think of food as merely an item of pleasure or a means to appease hunger. Food is your medicine and your ticket to that state of ultimate body balance, strength and great health: the Zone.
Life In The Zone
Have you ever had one of those days when everything goes right? You wake up feeling alert, refreshed, and full of energy. You go off to work, finding open spaces that allow you to cruise through the rushhour traffic. At your desk or out in the field, the solution to a problem that just yesterday seemed insoluble suddenly presents itself, seemingly out of thin air.
One by one, the tasks of the day surrender to your clear, efficient, yet apparently effortless approach. At your late-afternoon racquetball game (or jog, or aerobic workout) you're light on your feet and tireless. When you get home the kids are glad to see you-even your teenage son, the one with the ring in his nose-and when they get into one of their inevitable fights, you're there to adjudicate with the calm and wisdom of Solomon. After dinner, instead of collapsing in front of the TV, you have so much leftover energy that you're ready to go dancing.
You may not have put it to yourself this way, but you were probably in the Zone -- that mysterious but very real state in which your body and mind work together at their ultimate best. Normally, we hear about the Zone in the context of athletics: a baseball player swears he can count the seams on a 90-mph fastball; a basketball player sees the hoop as twice its real size; a gymnast feels as if the balance beam is as wide as a city street.
In the Zone, the mind is relaxed, yet alert and exquisitely focused. Meanwhile, the body is fluid, strong, and apparently indefatigable. It's almost euphoric. There are no distractions, and time seems to slow down to a graceful waltz.
The legendary soccer player Pele may have described the Zone best: "I felt a strange calmness," he wrote in his book My Life and the Beautiful Game, ". . . a kind of euphoria. I felt I could run all day without tiring, that I could dribble through any of their team or all of them, that I could almost pass through them physically. I felt I could not be hurt. It was a very strange feeling and one I had not felt before. Perhaps it was merely confidence, but I have felt confident many times without that strange feeling of invincibility."
Most athletes -- even those of us who are mere weekend warriors -- have experienced this almost transcendent state at least once, and the experience is unforgettable. But there's nothing mystical about the Zone. The Zone is a real metabolic state that can be reached by everyone, and maintained indefinitely on a lifelong basis.
What is the Zone? Simply put, it's the metabolic state in which the body works at peak efficiency. Outside the Zone, life is its normal self -- sometimes rewarding, mostly frustrating, filled with perplexing problems, missed opportunities, and illnesses great and small. But inside the Zone life becomes easier and better. In the Zone you'll enjoy optimal body function: freedom from hunger, greater energy and physical performance, as well as improved mental focus and productivity.
In the Zone, problems don't go away, but their solutions become more obvious. Fatigue and listlessness are replaced by feelings of energy and high competence. Weight loss (which should really be called fat loss) can be an ongoing and usually frustrating struggle for most people. In the Zone it is painless, almost automatic.
Life in the Zone creates significant health benefits. The little illnesses that plague us all -- colds, flus, allergies-seem to happen less often. When they do hit, they're not as severe. And some of our more serious chronic diseases-heart disease and cancer, for examplebecome less likely to strike. And if these diseases do occur, in the Zone their treatment is more manageable.
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.
www.drsears.com
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