At the beginning of a new year, many people focus their attention to their weight issues. In fact, it is America?s number one New Year?s resolution – to lose weight. And no wonder -obesity is up from 11.6% of the population in 1990 to nearly 25% today.?One would think with all the highly marketed??fad? diets and weight loss products?that people would get a be able handle on their weight loss issues. So, what’s wrong?
We all know the fads, including the very popular low-carbs craze. Many people jumped on that bandwagon, only to find themselves unhealthier and heavier at the end of that road.
There are weight loss gimmicks, and then there are diet systems based on research aimed at enabling your body to perform at the highest level possible. What separates fads from successful, lasting plans is the application of emerging nutritional science.
Already more than a decade old, the Zone? has enabled more than a million Americans to attain lasting success with losing body fat, according to ?The Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2007?.
The Zone Diet is not merely a diet focused on weight though.? It is a new way to consider food ? and how eating affects not only our weight, but also lifetime wellness.
Sure, losing weight is attractive, but so is boosting energy, preventing disease, healing certain conditions, and improving a person?s health broadly. Being overweight doesn?t just hurt your looks and the way you feel.? 
Obesity is a precursor to many diseases. Obesity invades headlines.? Especially alarming are statistics on children.? Establishing a balanced diet early is extraordinarily beneficial, and establishing health-maintaining eating habits is crucial over a lifetime
The Zone is a clinically proven lifestyle program designed for losing weight, fighting the effects of aging, reducing the risk of chronic disorders and improving mental and physical performance?all by eating the right combination of fat, protein and carbohydrates at every meal and snack. (*Zone 1-2-3 Method)
Search For The Dieting Holy Grail
The Zone Diet was created by Dr. Barry Sears, Ph.D., a former MIT researcher who explored lipids extensively and holds patents on hormonal control technology.? Dr. Sears? research revealed a person could enter ?the zone? ? similar to what top-producing athletes experience ? by achieving a hormonal balance in diet.* Hormone balance can result not only in weight loss, but the body?s increased ability in disease prevention and healing.? An equilibrium of hormones, namely insulin and eicosanoids, naturally results in weight loss and regulation of what is known as Silent Inflammation.
Eicosanoids are hormones that greatly influence every cell in our body,
Dr. Sears associated certain ?bad? eicosanoids with chronic disease conditions, such as heart disease, cancer and arthritis. He concluded that inducing your body to create more ?good? eicosanoids, and reducing the number of “bad” eicosanoids, would result not only in weight loss, but a reduction of Silent Inflammation, and other beneficial conditions.
Silent inflammation is a condition that occurs when the body’s natural immune response gets off kilter. It’s been linked to heart disease, cancer, diabetes, even dementia and other health threats; and it can go on for years, undetected.
Controlling certain hormones through a diet based on moderation and balance can contribute greatly to your overall wellness.? The Zone Diet helps you time meals to avoid hunger, and presents guidance for beneficial supplements such as ultra-refined fish oil (for more on this see below*)
The results are evident.? Celebrities such as Jennifer Aniston, Cindy Crawford, Madonna, Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Lopez, Demi Moore, Winona Ryder and more maintain weight and manage their health with the Zone Diet.
Now it is even easier to go on and stay on the Zone diet. The Zone has teamed with organic foods company Cedarlane to bring the Zone diet to the frozen foods section of your neighborhood supermarket. The people at the Zone understand that knowing what to cook for a healthy, balanced meal can be not only time consuming, but frustrating. With the Zone Cedarlane frozen meals, all the thinking is done for you. And you won?t find any of the preservatives or extra sodium found in most other frozen entrees. For breakfast, lunch or dinner you can have an easy, healthy, nutritious Zone meal in a matter of minutes. And with so many options, like pizza, lasagna, omelettes, burritos, enchiladas and pasta, you?ll never suffer from a case of the frozen-diet food blues.?
The Zone people have made living in the Zone effortless. The new Zone 1-2-3 Method makes it easy to determine the right balance of fat, protein and carbohydrate to ?turn on? a fat-burning metabolism and satisfy hunger at every meal and snack.? The basic premise is that for every gram of fat you consume you need to eat twice as many grams of protein and three times that amount in grams of carbohydrates.? The 1-2-3 Method is a simple alternative to the previous ?Zone Blocks? and ?40-30-30? methods.
The redesigned Zone Living? web site serves as a ?one-stop-shop? for all things regarding Life in the Zone?.? The new user-friendly layout offers personalized information for six categories:? weight loss, chronic disorders, women?s health, men?s health, children?s health and athletic performance. Each category offers recommendations on eating, supplements, nutritional foods and exercise.
1.?Weight Loss😕 Contains valuable tips on how to achieve long-term weight loss by reducing inflammation within the fat cells.? The key is eating the right combination of food, nourishing the body with the nutrients it needs and exercising moderately.
2.?Chronic Disorders😕 Addresses how to minimize inflammation, which significantly increases health concerns related to the heart, blood sugar levels, bone and joints, cell growth and mental cognition.
3.?Women?s Health😕 Provides information about health concerns specific to women, like estrogen loss and aging.
4.?Men?s Health😕 Addresses information about health concerns specific to men, like decreased testosterone levels and aging.
5.?Athletic Performance😕 Offers diet and nutritional advice for serious athletes to decrease inflammation, reduce recovery times, improve reaction times, maintain mental focus and minimize body fat.
6.?Children?s Health😕 Provides tips on how to stop inflammation before it causes weight gain or health concerns, as well as how to improve children?s mental focus.
?We wanted to create a single place where consumers could get sound information about the Zone that is updated regularly.? Our goal was to make Life in the Zone easy to understand without straying from the dietary philosophy that?s helped more than three million people lose weight and improve their health.? The new web site achieves that goal and then some,? said Jim Buchanan, Chairman and CEO of Zone Labs Inc.
In addition to personalized information, some of the web site?s new features include hundreds of recipes, monthly newsletters, online forums, a 7-day meal planner, body fat calculator, restaurant reviews (they list 11 of the most popular fast food restaurants and what you can order there and still stay in the Zone) and comparison to other diets, testimonials, helpful hints and articles by Dr. Barry Sears.?
Clinical studies, articles and information regarding blood sugar, heart, bone and joint, cell growth and mental cognition problems will continue to be updated on www.DrSears.com.
Zone Nutritionals and Omega-3 Concentrates
A wide variety of Zone nutritional foods and supplements can be purchased exclusively on the web site.? Patented Zone EPA-DHA enriched omega-3 concentrates will be available in three potencies to address different health concerns, and the Omega Zone? line of bars and shakes have been reformulated.? Zone Labs will launch several new products in 2007, including Apple Cinnamon Zone Bars, and condition specific dietary supplements for those individuals concerned about preventive health.? Other products to be introduced in 2007 include snacks, pasta, dessert mixes, sport drinks and ready-to-drink shakes.
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The highly-purified and extremely powerful omega-3 fish oil concentrates are key products for 2007.? ?Due to a recent influx of positive media coverage, the American public is embracing omega-3 fish oils as a way to help prevent and treat many chronic illnesses,? said Dr. Sears.? ?Another great benefit of fish oil is the ability of EPA-DHA to help control inflammation in the fat cell, and burn excess fat.?
Established in 2002, Zone Labs Inc. has quickly risen to become an industry leader in the development and sales of innovative, patented nutraceutical products.? Located in Danvers, MA, the company is based on the vision of Dr. Barry Sears, author of the best-selling Zone? books and a leading authority on the dietary control of hormonal response.? Zone Labs combines cutting-edge technology with the latest scientific research to develop a wide range of Evidence Based Wellness? products, including foods, dietary supplements and a skin care line.? Every product produced and sold by the company adheres to Dr. Sears? research on the battle against inflammation, which is recognized as a primary factor in the development of a wide number of chronic illness conditions.? Zone Labs is a privately held company.? For additional information, please visit www.ZoneLiving.com.
*?(Watch for my upcoming interview with Dr. Sears this month here in LA?s The Place magazine.)
