Ken, thanks for your reply. I've read all of Sears' books, Neanderthin, Both
Protein Power books and probably all the books written recently about
lowcarb and/or paleo eating! :-) In Sears'first book, he was adamant that
you should eat the correct amount of protein calculated by your lean body
mass. He stated that it was important not to eat any more or any less. Then
in his next book he decided that the minimum requirement is 11 blocks. I
think this was because smaller people were starving on his diet, no matter
how much more fat they added in. I *personally* lost a bit of faith in his
thoeries when he changed stance like that. Sears certainly does say to
adjust the ratios of C/F/P if you are hungry, mentally foggy etc, usually
recommending to increase a fat block or decrease a carb block for example.
However he states repeatedly that food should be thought of as a drug, and
the theory as I understand it is that the ratio of C/P/F  allows for drug
like precision in hormonal control. I just wonder if our H/G ancestors ate
like that.
Bridget.







>
> Two points:
>
> (1) After his first book, Sears subsequently discovered that there seems to be
> a
> "floor" of protein requirements for humans, regardless of size, and so he
> upped
> the minimum protein requirement for smaller women to 77 grams (11 blocks).
>
> (2) There is no exact ratio of C/P/F in any of Sears' books.   The term
> "40/30/30" was popularized by Ann Gittleman in a widely distributed cheap
> paperback.   The actual Zone diet, as explained by Sears, requires you to
> adjust
> the ratios depending on whether you are hungry or not, and by whether you are
> mentally foggy or not.    This was ignored by most people, because 98% of
> people
> who do a particular diet do NOT read any book describing the diet.   (I have
> absolutely no doubt that there are plenty of people in this list who have
> never
> read either Ray's book or an Eades book.)
>
> PS  There is such a thing as "Paleo Zone" which has been advocated by some
> people on the web...
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Ken
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