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Zone Diet
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:
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