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Book SynopsisIn The Mediterranean Zone, Dr Barry Sears, founder of The Zone Diet, shows you how to eat a delicious and sustainable diet that will: stop weight gain and strip away 'toxic' fat; free you from inflammation and hormonal chaos; reverse diabetes and protect you from Alzheimer's; lighten your mood as well as your body; allow you to break out of the diet-and-exercise trap for good! Incorporating the principles of the Zone diet and the fundamental benefits of the much-loved Mediterranean diet, the Mediterranean Zone offers an easy-to-follow guide to eating and living better, based on the latest scientific research.
Table of ContentsThe Zone at a glance; Part I - Mastering the Mediterranean Zone: The coming reckoning; Inflammation - the real reason we gain weight, get sick and age at a faster rate; Mastering the Zone diet for a lifetime; The Mediterranean diet - facts and fiction; The Mediterranean Zone - the evolution of the Mediterranean diet; Anti-inflammatory supplements for the Mediterranean Zone; Part II - The science of polyphenols: Polyphenols - the next essential nutrients; Polyphenols and gut health; Polyphenols and oxidative stress; Polyphenols and longevity; Part III - The industrialisation of food and the rise of diet-induced inflammation; Chasing the wrong food villains; Part IV - The future of medicine: Epigenetics - opening Pandora's genetic box; Reclaiming our genetic future. Appendices
