Enter the Zone
1995 • rrp $35.00 • Paperback • ISBN:0060987162
The book that started it all..
My verdict
A bad book to start with. Most find it too long and difficult to understand.
Since Enter the Zone Dr Sears has released a series of books trying to present his ideas in ever easier formats, so there are better books available now.
Only for fanatics I reckon.
Good features
- Covers nearly everything.
Not so good features
- Fairly hard to understand for those of us scientifically challenged.
- Lots of relatively complex theory.
- Out of date on a few matters.1
More...
Dr Sears now claims he wrote Enter the Zone specifically for cardiac surgeons, which obviously isn't true, but I forgive him this one misdemeanour as he's merely trying to encourage readers to choose one of his later books instead.
Still, if it's the only one in the library I say read on!
Contents
| Enter the Zone | ||
| Chapter | Page | |
| Acknowledgements | VII | |
| Preface | IX | |
| 1 | Life in the Zone | 1 |
| 2 | The fattening of America | 9 |
| 3 | The hormonal effects of food | 24 |
| 4 | Eicosanoids - the short course | 32 |
| 5 | Elite athletes in the Zone | 40 |
| 6 | Exercise in the Zone | 54 |
| 7 | Boundaries of the Zone | 65 |
| 8 | Your dietary roadmap to the Zone | 77 |
| 9 | Evolution and the Zone | 99 |
| 10 | Vitamins, minerals, and the Zone | 105 |
| 11 | Aspirin: the wonder drug | 113 |
| 12 | The wonder hormones: eicosanoids - the long course | 119 |
| 13 | The Zone and your heart | 135 |
| 14 | Cancer and the Zone | 165 |
| 15 | Chronic disease and the Zone | 175 |
| 16 | The Zone and life extension | 199 |
| 17 | Summing up | 205 |
| Appendixes | ||
| A | Technical Support | 213 |
| B | Calculation of lean body mass | 215 |
| C | Macronutrient food blocks | 229 |
| D | Zone-favourable recipes | 241 |
| E | Calculation of your daily protein requirements | 263 |
| F | Comparison of body-fat percentages | 265 |
| G | Metropolitan life tables for ideal body weight, 1959 vs. 1983 | 267 |
| H | Glycemic index of carbohydrates | 269 |
| Index | 273 | |
Notes
- The main one being the minimum number of blocks per day for adults, which is now 11.
