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Zone Diet
By Anita Cherry
The Zone diet helps in loosing weight slowly and maintaining an ideal weight. It is recommended to manage blood sugar level. It is a calorie restricted plan.The zone diet is consuming calories in a balanced ratio of 40:30: 30. That is 40 percentages of carbohydrate 30 percentage of protein and 30 percentage of fat with special emphasis on lean proteins fruits and vegetables. Zone diet also insists on control of the portions you eat and the timing of your eating. Zone diet promotes weight loss or weight maintenance depending on your health condition and physical activity. According to zone diet blood sugar can be managed by eating at proper time and certain foods and can produce low glycemic index. Zone diet was developed by Barry Sears Ph D a former researcher in biotechnology at Massachusetts institute of Technology.
Zone diet has several products which can be used for convenience but it is not necessary to buy to follow the zone diet. The product from Zone diet are ZonePerfect Meals, ZonePerfect Nutrition Bar, ZonePerfect Shake Mix.The ZonePerfect Meals contain 4 blocks each. ZonePerfect Nutrition Bar is two ZonePerfect Food Blocks.The ZonePerfect Shake Mixes contain 2 ½ blocks each.One mini block is equal to 7 grams of protein or 9 grams of carbohydrate or 3 grams of fat. Proteins can be lean meat, while carbohydrates can be half an apple and fat can be nuts or olive oil. A mini block from each category of cryohydrate, protein and fat is a ZonePerfect Food Block. At least 11 ZonePerfect Food Block should be consumed daily.Fats consumed should be from monounsaturated fat sources like olive oil, olive, almonds, avocado and macadamia nuts. Main beverage consumed should be water that is 6 ounce or 8 cups per day. Even though there is no prohibition to any particular food some foods like unfavorable carbohydrates should be restricted to 25%of you total carbohydrate intake. You shouldn't go hungry for more that 5 hours a day without meal or snack. You should eat a snack within one hour after waking up. Vegetarians can get protein from beans, legumes and soy products. In simple Zone diet is 1/3rd plate low fat protein, 2/3rd with fruits and vegetables.
Many celebrities like Demi Moore, Madonna and Jennifer Aniston swears by zone diet. Zone diet is not recommended for pregnant women, breastfeeding woman and children below 10 years of age.
About the Author
Anita cherry is a health enthusiast who offers informative tips on health. For more information on health visit http://www.healthinfoforyou.com/an/zone_diet.
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