Does The Zone Diet Work?

The zone diet is considered a fad diet created by a biochemist named Barry Sears. In reality it's not a fad diet in that it is not planned to only be consumed in short periods, but rather to become the normal eating habits for a person. The diet relies on balancing hormones, but is still a low carbohydrate diet even if less restrictive than diets like Atkins.

There is a ratio of 40 to 30 to 30 of carbohydrates, protein and fat in the zone diet. Some nonscientific studies done by various television shows have shown that the diet can indeed produce reasonable weight-loss. They also concluded that the zone diet can help people gain muscle in addition to losing weight. Many of the people in these studies also reported that of all the low carbohydrate diets, the zone diet was easiest to fit into an everyday lifestyle.

The result of the zone diet and its hormone balance is the body releasing anti-inflammatory chemicals like those found in aspirin, but without side effects. In addition, claims Sears, the natural anti-inflammatories help with heart health. The body also becomes more efficient as a result of the zone diet, meaning it stops storing fat. The result is weight loss. Fatty acids such as omega 3 were later added in the form of supplements such as fish oil.

Sears told people who were on the zone diet to eat a piece of meat that would fit in their palm, just enough carbohydrates to avoid feeling weak, and as much non-starchy vegetables as they could stomach.

This zone diet has a famous weight loss case in its files, that of the man who weighed over 1200 pounds. He lost 400 pounds on the zone diet after a series of failures with almost every other diet imaginable. He now eats about 2000 calories a day, filled with foods recommended by the zone diet.

Give the zone diet a try, but be careful.

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