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Learn to COOK - Zone Food Blocks: The Quick and Easy, Mix-and-Match Counter for Staying in the Zone
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List Price: $19.00
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Manufacturer: Collins Living
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.2
EAN: 9780060392420
ISBN: 0060392428
Label: Collins Living
Manufacturer: Collins Living
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: 1998-07-01
Publisher: Collins Living
Release Date: 1998-06-03
Studio: Collins Living
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Editorial Reviews:
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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--all 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 aZone 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--get into the Zone.
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Summary: Very thorough food guide
Comment: I never thought I'd find such an extensive library on zone food blocks, including ready-made TV dinners and fast food. It does not include everything, but it makes a very good attempt at doing so.
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Summary: I Could Not Do This Diet Successfully With Out This Book...
Comment: This book is my "go to" for information for the zone diet. I can figure out how to eat anything and still stay in the zone. I would highly reccommend it.
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Summary: ZONE FOOD BLOCKS
Comment: Good information.
Many fresh fruits and vegetables are not listed. Mostly canned, frozen, and processed foods are listed.
The organization within the main categories is difficult to navigate. Rather than listing "fruits" within the Carbohydrate category and putting all fruits under that heading, they are listed alphabetically within the category and mixed in with everyting else.
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Summary: It's not as complicated as Sears wants you to believe
Comment: Sears wants you to think he has come up with a complicated system which he calls The Zone.
In reality, all you need is to eat naturally, like our ancestors did thousands of years ago. Eat greens, vegetables, berries, fruit, mushrooms, nuts. Eat lean meat (our ancestors hunted for healthy, lean animals). Eat egg whites, but avoid yolks. Most of the modern contaminants stick to fat molecules, and yolks are mostly fat. Plus it's the wrong type of fat, as chickens are not fed properly. Eat wild fish (but not too often; don't forget about pollutants).
That's it. Forget grains (and everything made from them). Forget potatoes and hard beans, soda and juices. Forget vegetable oils. All that junk is completely unnatural for humans to eat; our ancestors couldn't imagine that was edible. And that's why we have diseases that they didn't have.
Forget milk. Milk is only good for babies under 3 years old. Studies show that milk (and even yogurt) causes hyperinsulinemia (insulin "spikes" that lead to diabetes etc.) in adults.
Yes, his advice to take fish oil is great. Farm-raised animals are fed with junk food; consequently, they lack certain fatty acids that are vital for our health. Fish oil is a convenient way of restoring the balance. But Sears' fish oil is not the purest and cheapest on the market.
I'm a physiologist, and I've helped a number of people to change their eating habits. Those people have gotten rid of many problems, like obesity, allergies, asthma, arthritis, and excessive fatigue. And they don't complain that the food is not delicious enough. They learned to use their imagination a little bit and combine various healthy foods to create their nice and simple "recipes", and realized they enjoy their food even more than before.
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Summary: A little complicated - but a handy reference
Comment: This is a very nice book to have as a reference if you're on the Zone diet. It has a very comprehensive and detailed list of frozen dinners, broken down into blocks.
The reason I'm giving it three stars, though, is the fact that the book is not very user-friendly. It's VERY bulky, so I have to type grocery lists on the computer of what I can from the book when I go shopping. I also wish the fast foods section was more of a "This is what you can, and can't eat" reference. It tells you how many blocks each food is, but when you're at Wendy's, chances are, you won't have the book handy.
A helpful tip to remember is: If you're going to buy this book, highlight what you think you can eat and then write it down and keep in in your wallet or purse for the store or when you're out to eat. Also write down how many blocks each meal is so that you'll know if you need to compensate for a fat or carb during the meal. Then you have a great reference at home with everything you need, and a travel-sized version!
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