On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:06:56 -0500, Todd Moody <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Ken Stuart wrote:
>
>> I think you are confusing the Zone Diet with what someone tells you to eat
>> (regardless of their official status). :-)
>>
>> There is nothing in the Zone Diet theory that requires a caloric deficit greater
>> than that which can produce the most burning of stored body fat.
>
>The Zone diet is whatever Barry Sears and his minions say it is.
>If you follow Sears' "rules" to the letter, as I did, you may or
>may not end up with a program that conserves muscle.

There are no hard and fast rules.   In many places, he gives advice for
adjusting the plan based on your own personal physiological reaction.
For example, there are graphs showing that the protein/carbohydrate ratio is a
spectrum, and not every body works best on exactly "0.75".

A lot of the "blocks", charts, etc. are designed for people who have little or
no feel for interpreting their own body's reactions and symptoms, and who
certainly have little or no ability to actually understand what is going on, in
terms of the physiological processes being adjusted (unlike the people in this
list).

At this point, there really is only two differences between the Zone plan and
the Protein Power plan:

1) The Eades have you restrict carbohydrates to a ketosis-inducing level during
the initial phases.  This is because a) they feel that it is better for people
coming off SAD high carbohydrate diets to go "cold turkey" in order to get the
body to adjust to a more normal paleo existence, and b) the ketosis seems to be
helpful in terms of initial weight loss.   Sears believes that ketosis is
unhealthful and so he does not have an initial phase that differs from
maintenance.

2) The Zone Diet is particularly interested in the hour-to-hour level of blood
sugar and hormones, while Protein Power (for reasons never made clear) is not
interested in anything quite so minute.   This may be due to the fact that
Protein Power started out as a weight loss diet, while the Zone Diet started out
as a way to prevent heart disease, and later a way to increase athletic
performance.

PS  I try to ignore minions whenever possible!   (As opposed to mignons.)


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Cheers,

Ken
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