Iulia Pascanu
One way of recognizing a fad diet is said to be the promise of multiple supernatural effects upon health. And Zone diet promises a lot.
"Why is the Zone diet so controversial?"
"Beats me!"
Extract from an interview with Dr. Barry Sears, by Harper&Collins Publishers
Five cover promises
At first glance, Barry Sears' archetypical published book "Enter The Zone" has the following important points:
- Lose weight permanently
- Reset your genetic code
- Prevent disease
- Achieve your maximum physiological performance
- Enhance your mental productivity
These five statements should make us buy. I think I would buy if only cardinal of them were true, point three, preventing disease.
How can a diet not be polemical when it says it can "prevent diseases"? But, to be fair, Dr Sears provides far details of his ambiguous statement somewhere between the covers of the bestseller. We find down that Zone diet can help to:
- prevent type II diabetes, as Zone diet is nothing more than permanent and right insulin control finished food we ingest
- prevent cardiovascular diseases (cardiomyopathy, arthritis, artherosclerosis, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia)
- prevent or cure "mental diseases" such as depression and alcoholism
- restore energy in conditions such as CMS, PMS or even HIV infections
- prevent cancer development and make antibodies fight tumors with greater success.
I really want to believe Zone can be that magic recipe that can help me live a longer and healthier life, without too untold effort. But I expected some technological proof for complete these promises. And what did I find instead? whatsoever stories about people who successfully solved their problems by following Zone diet, and their permanent gratitude to diet guru Barry Sears! I'm sorry, but I'm not buying that.
Of course, there are whatsoever good aspects of the Zone diet. It promotes well-preserved eating standards and gives some common-sense advice. Somewhere, on the publishing roadworthy (more precisely with "Omega RX Zone --- The miracle of high-dose fish oil"), Dr. Sears advises us not to make some radical change in our dietary program without consulting a trained physician.
But I think there are still galore things that need to be tested in the Zone. If it really does work the way it promises, mankind should go beyond such problems as illness.
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