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Overview

Millions of people worldwide have discovered the power of the Zone. A breakthrough approach to dieting based on Nobel Prize-winning scientific research, the Zone treats food as the most powerful drug available. Used wisely, food will take you into the Zone, a state of exceptional health familiar to champion athletes. You'll not only burn body fat, you'll keep it off. You'll also fight heart disease, diabetes, PMS, chronic fatigue, depression, and cancer. Discover the benefits of this revolutionary program in just seven days with A Week in the Zone:

  • Fundamentals of the Zone
  • How to eat in the Zone
  • How to shop in the Zone
  • A week's worth of healthy, satisfying recipes including quick and easy Zone breakfasts, lunches, and dinners
  • The Zone for vegetarians
  • How to order in and dine out in the Zone
  • How to achieve maximum success in the Zone

A Week in the Zone also contains appendices on frequently asked questions, how to calculate your lean body mass, information on Zone food blocks, a list of resources, and more. Enter the Zone and experience the dietary program that has transformed the way America eats. You'll be glad you did.

About the Author:

Barry Sears Ph.D., is a widely published scientist and medical researcher who currently serves as the president of Eicotech Corporation, a biotechnology company. He lives in Swampscott, Massachusetts, with his wife, Lynn, and two daughters, Kelly and Kristin.

Editorial Reviews

New York Times
With clearly distilled science and a detailed eating plan for peak performance, The Zone could do for insulin awareness what the Pritikin diet did for low-fat eating.
New York Times Book Review
With clearly distilled science and a detailed eating plan for peak performance, The Zone could do for insulin awareness what the Pritikin diet did for low-fat eating.
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Teresa Olsen
I've never had the progress with my clients that I've had since they've started doing the Zone. They're less hungry, less fatigued, and more productive. I've seen it work. —People magazine
Teresa Olsen
I've never had the progress with my clients that I've had since they've started doing the Zone. They're less hungry, less fatigued, and more productive. I've seen it work.
— People Magazine
Woman's World
The hottest diet in Hollywood.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780061030833
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 3/28/2000
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 114,966
  • Product dimensions: 4.18 (w) x 6.75 (h) x 0.64 (d)

Meet the Author

Dr. Barry Sears is recognized as one of the world's leading medical researchers on the hormonal effects of food. He is the author of the number one New York Times bestseller The Zone as well as Mastering the Zone, Zone-Perfect Meals in Minutes, Zone Food Blocks, A Week in the Zone, The Age-Free Zone, The Top 100 Zone Foods, The Soy Zone, The Omega Rx Zone, Zone Meals in Seconds, and What to Eat in the Zone. His books have sold more than five million copies and have been translated into twenty-two languages in forty countries. He continues his research on the inflammatory process as the president of the nonprofit Inflammation Research Foundation in Marblehead, Massachusetts. The father of two grown daughters, he lives in Swampscott, Massachusetts, with his wife, Lynn.

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A Week in the Zone

Chapter One

What Is the Zone?

For generations, every male on my father's side of my family suffered from a similar fate: a premature heart attack that cut their life short decades too early. After my father died in 1972 at the age of 54, I realized that I had a genetic time bomb ticking away inside me. I knew I couldn't change my genes, but I was determined to find a way to lead a normal, healthy life span.

My quest to save myself has led me to a surprisingly simple conclusion. As it turns out, the key to a longer, better life is not some magic pill or potion. It is a powerful hormone produced by your diet called insulin. My research showed that if you were able to keep insulin levels within a certain zone -- not too high and not too low -- you could dramatically improve your health and prevent a wide range of diseases. What's more, you could also make your body start using fat for energy, thus allowing you to lose excess body fat without feeling hungry!

So how do you begin to regulate your insulin levels and begin the journey to better health? Again, I found that the answer was simple: by eating the right combination of foods at every meal. Essentially, you need to start treating the Zone diet as a drug. Once you start taking this drug, you will automatically achieve:

  • Permanent loss of excess body fat
  • Dramatic reduction in the risk of chronic diseases like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer
  • Improved mental and physical performance
  • A longer life

The first person to recognize food as a wonder drug was Hippocrates, the father of medicine, who instructed us to "let foodbe your medicine, and let medicine be your food." Now some twenty-five hundred years later, we are just beginning to understand the importance of his words.

Make no mistake about it; food is a powerful drug. In fact, it may be the most powerful drug you will ever take. However, like any drug, food can help you or harm you depending on how you use it. Used correctly, food can make you more energized and healthier with the guarantee of a longer and more active life. Used incorrectly, food can become your worst enemy -- robbing you of a healthy body, healthy weight, and a healthy mind, as millions of Americans are quickly finding out for themselves. Most important, if food is used improperly, it can also shorten your life.

You may think you already know how to properly use food by avoiding fat, and eating plenty of carbohydrates like pasta, bagels, bread, and rice. If you've been following these dietary guidelines, however, you may be puzzled as to why you're gaining rather than losing weight. Truth is, you have it backward. If you're like most Americans, you're probably eating far too many carbohydrates. This is why more than 50 percent of Americans are overweight today compared to 33 percent twenty years ago -- even though we're now eating less fat than ever before. This is called the American paradox. If fat were the enemy, then we should have declared victory over obesity many years ago. The fact is that dietary fat was never the real enemy. The real cause of our growing epidemic of obesity is excess production of the hormone insulin. It is excess insulin that makes you fat and keeps you fat.

You are constantly reminded that a calorie is a calorie, and that weight gain is simply more calories coming in than calories going out. Since fat contains more calories per gram than does protein or carbohydrate, simple logic would dictate that removing fat from the diet should make us thinner. Such caloric thinking can be summarized as follows "if no fat touches my lips, then no fat reaches my hips." Well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to walk on the streets of America and realize that statement simply isn't true. On the hormonal level, all calories are not created equal. The hormonal effect of a calorie of carbohydrate is different than the hormonal effect of a calorie of protein, and is still different from the hormonal effect of a calorie of fat. Each of these three nutrients has its own unique effects on your body's hormones. In the proper balance, these three nutrients are exactly what your body needs to remain healthy by keeping insulin within the Zone. When these nutrients are out of balance and insulin levels surge too high, they can wreak havoc on your body's hormonal equilibrium, resulting in weight gain, an increased likelihood of chronic disease, and acceleration of the aging process. On the other hand, if insulin levels are too low, your cells begin to starve because a certain amount of insulin is required to drive life-sustaining nutrients into your cells.

The Zone is like the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. One bowl of porridge was too hot (too much insulin), one bowl was too cold (too little insulin), and one was just right (the Zone).

Zone Benefits

In the Zone, almost magical metabolic changes occur. Only in the Zone can you release excess fat from your fat cells to be used as fuel by your body twenty-four hours a day, allowing you to lose weight and enjoy more energy simultaneously. Only in the Zone can you reduce the likelihood of chronic disease. Only in the Zone can you live a longer life. It's as easy as eating the right combination of protein, carbohydrates, and fat at every meal and snack.

The benefits of maintaining insulin in the Zone are almost immediate, because your blood sugar is also automatically stabilized. As a result, you feel less hungry, you are more mentally alert and more energized throughout the day. Carbohydrate cravings become a thing of the past so that you can free your body from its slavery to food ...

A Week in the Zone. Copyright © by Barry Sears. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.

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  • Posted January 29, 2012

    Highly recommended!

    Along with a healthy routine of exercise eating in the zone will transform your life. I have more energy and feel great. During the initial week I thought to myself, I can't possibly eat this much and loose weight. So wrong. Try it out.

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  • Posted November 13, 2011

    A must read!

    If you are interested about the food you eat and want to learn how to control insulin levels, then this is the book for you. This is not a diet book, rather a book that teaches, good carb/bad carb and how to strike a good health balance between fats, proteins and carbohydrates. I learned a lot reading this book.

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  • Posted May 6, 2010

    a week on the zone

    i do NOT consider this a diet...it is a change of life. There is a lot of food we can eat on this plan. It is not hard to follow. I have lost 5 lbs. in the last week and 1/2. I know a lot of that weight loss is fluid, but I have not had any problem drinking 8 glasses of water a day. I fill up my container for 64 oz. and I drink from that container. I have found I am eating healthier...more vegetables and fruit....no breads and no potatoes...And I can truly say, I do not miss them.. What I miss is my cocktail of Southern Comfort Manhattans every night before I go to bed...but fruits and vegetable are more healthier than the cocktails. I drink one SCM on a Saturday night as my special treat!

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  • Posted February 21, 2010

    A Week in the Zone

    I followed the steps and read the book. I lowered my blood sugar level by 80 points and lost 9 pounds in one week. It is hard to follow the meal plan however, you feel better about eating and you do change the amount of food you eat and you eat more fruits and snacks throughout the day instead of eating too much in one sitting. I recommend this book to all who want to maintain their health and feel good about themselves. It is doable. Thanks!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 18, 2003

    Weight Loss & Better Health

    This is one of the few diet books that also contains valuable information that will help you improve your health. There is more to weight loss and good health then just cutting carbs and this book proves it. I also loved 'The Power of Positive Habits' a new book that shows you how to lose weight and improve your health...automatically.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 5, 2002

    Is a Week in the Zone worth your money?

    I read it and learned much, including how all the so called experts disagree. He makes it inderstandable, easy to digest (no pun intended) and well worth the price and the time it takes to read. I have since passed it on to a couple friends. Good investment to be sure.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 2, 2000

    THE ZONE IS PERFECT

    THIS BOOK WAS GREAT. IT IS A SIMPLIFIED VERSION OF THE OTHER BOOK BY BARRY SEARS 'THE ZONE' IT GIVES YOU ALL THE TOOLS THAT YOU NEED TO BE IN THE ZONE WITHOUT ALL THE READING. I READ THE BOOK IN ON EVENING AND HAVE BEEN IN THE ZONE EVER SINCE. GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF YOU.

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