Review Description:
The Zone diet was created by Barry Sears, PhD. The Zone Diet is made up of 40% carbohydrates, 30% proteins, and 30% fats. He is very scientific about how to come up with the 40-30-30 that each individual person will need. Then, he explains that all the foods we eat are in "blocks." Once you figure out your unique combination of blocks, you eat those blocks at each meal. Snacks are half of the meal blocks.
On the Zone diet, timing is everything. Dr. Sears states you should eat at least six times a day, eat frequent small meals (with no more than 4-5 hours in between meals and 2.5 hours after a snack (whether hungry or not) your body is programming its insulin levels. Eating the same time every day trains your body's insulin balance.