The Zone : A Dietary Road Map to Lose Weight Permanently : Reset Your Genetic Code : Prevent Disease : Achieve Maximum Physical Performance

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Summary: Too complicated!
Review: OK, I know people seem to love the zone diet but I think it is too complicated. I didn't like this book at all. It has a lot of information I just do not think it is easy to understand. My doctor had recommended this diet, but I wound up just doing the Atkins Diet. I would suggest bypassing this.

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Summary: the only book on diet that ever made sense
Review: This book changed my life. Several years ago I become chronicaly ill. For six months I had one terrible case of flu-like symptoms after another. My health was breaking down. I went to one kind of doctor after another, including increasingly wacko new age therapies. These might work in general, but I wasn't getting better. Then someone put this book in my hands. I read it in about two days. I thought the science and the studies that applied it to diabetes, athletic peak performance, and the like made enormous sense. I threw out all my old food, went to the store, and bought strictly zone food. In a week, literally, I was well. Not only that, I weighed myself and discovered I'd lost ten pounds. I ended up losing forty pounds and maintaining my health. I recommended the book to others who had similar experiences. This book isn't just for losing weight, it's a way of life. You learn the science of food, and you live a different way. I've learned how to stay on the zone and still "cheat". That is, enjoy my food. Basically you eat a balanced protein, carb, and fat diet. And you watch what kind of protein, carb, and fat you eat. What could be simpler? Then I bought all the rest of the books, too. The zone has become part of the rest of my life.