Mastering The Zone [Audiobook] [Audio Cassette]

Barry Sears's 1995-96 bestseller, The Zone, changed the way many people look at nutrition and weight loss. Although his plan advocates eating fewer calories and exercising more, it also stresses getting more of those calories from fat and protein and fewer from carbohydrates. Here, he expands on that theory (which is still not accepted in most scientific circles) and offers recipes to help readers put his principles into practice. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Last year, Sears wrote The Zone, which promptly became the latest in a long line of best-sellers telling people why they are fat. The book's complicated premise has to do with insulin production and its effects on mood and weight loss. Even Sears admits in his preface to this new volume that despite the earlier book's sales, "I realize that many readers of The Zone still find it difficult to apply the concepts . . . to their daily lives." Well, isn't that lucky for Sears. He can write another book that allows him to explain "the zone" yet again, and this time out, he provides menus, which make up about three-fourths of the book. The recipes look interesting enough, but it's even money whether this explanation of the zone is any easier to grasp than the last one. Still, it's a sure bet that readers, always looking for that elusive way to make the weight disappear, will be eager to fill their plates with a second helping of Sears' advice. Ilene Cooper --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Dr. Sears takes your health to the next level.His easy-to-follow strategy throws out conventional carbohydrate-worship and says humans need protein and carbohydrate and even fat for true health.By carefully adjusting a sensible diet, Zone followers attain hormonal balance and reap real results- permanent weight loss, great health, all around peak performance- that begin immediately and last a lifetime.If you are new to The Zone, it will show you, step-by-step, how easy it is to eat for superior health.If you are a Zone veteran, it will help you fine-tune your Zone lifestyle.

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.