The ‘zone’ is the body’s physical state when it achieves a perfect hormonal balance. The term is borrowed from the athlete’s jargon of reaching their ‘zones’ of peak performance. Dr. Barry Sears, the creator of the controversial zone diet, believes that similar to the athletes, people can be in a perfect state of mind and [...]
People get obese as a result of eating too much food. With this simple analogy, the fast diet tries to eliminate the fats by getting rid of its source altogether – refrain from food through fasting. It has been a practice for people of the past to achieve spiritual enlightenment through fasting. [...]
The growth and functioning of the body is highly dependent on the kind of foods we eat. While malnourishment is one extreme aspect of nutritional science, the problem of obesity and overweight is yet another extreme dimension of the same problem. Although both problems are equally important, combating malnourishment is more of a philanthropic area [...]