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The power of the Zone is that the hormone insulin can be controlled by the zone diet plan. Zone Diet is about keeping insulin within a tight range or zone - not too high, not too low.
Keeping insulin in a tight zone prevents you from gaining weight and helps you lose it. Maintaining insulin in this same zone produces the following Zone Diet benefits:
1. Thinking better
Maintaining peak mental acuity is a consequence of maintaining stable blood sugar levels. Blood sugar is the metabolic fuel that the brain uses to maintain your mental activity.
What controls your blood sugar levels?
It is the amount of insulin in the blood stream. Insulin is a
storage hormone. Too much insulin drives the blood sugar levels
down by sending it to the liver and muscles for storage. When blood
sugar levels drop, clear and concise thinking becomes difficult and your
mental capacity drops.
However, the good news is that if you maintain insulin in the Zone. then your blood sugar levels will be stabilized, giving you peak mental acuity for four to six hours after your last Zone meal.
The bad news is that in order to maintain your insulin levels in that Zone, you must eat another Zone meal every four to six hours.
In essence, you are, therefore, treating food as if it were a drug, to be taken at the right dosage and the right time.
2. Performing better
Do you realize that the average American male and female carries a remarkable amount of energy i.e. more than 100,000 stored calories as fat in their body? This is equivalent to eating 1,700 pancakes for breakfast.
The problem is how to access this stored energy for your daily activities. The answer is to lower elevated insulin levels to get into the Zone. Once your insulin levels are in the Zone, you can tap those stored calories in the body. On the other hand, if you have high levels of insulin, there is no way for you to access the stored energy in the body because elevated insulin blocks the enzyme that is required for their release.
The bad news about excess insulin is that high levels of insulin decrease oxygen transfer to your muscle cells, thereby building up lactic acid which cause muscle fatigue.
So, to achieve optimal performance throughout the day, keep your insulin levels in the Zone.
3. Looking better
The loss of excess body fat should be considered a pleasant side effect of being in the Zone. The only way you can lose this extra fat is to lower insulin.
To look good and to maintain a nice body shape, you need to lose your excess body fat while maintaining your lean body mass.
It's your percent body fat that indicates how good you look in a swim suit. The reason why some swimmers look so good in swimsuits is that they have a low percent body fat coupled with good muscle mass.
Again to maintain your good body looks, then you have to keep your insulin level in the Zone.
4. Living better and Living longer
Elevated insulin is the primary risk factor associated with heart disease. Excess insulin also decreases the efficiency of your immune system by increasing the levels of certain hormones that depress the immune system and cause silent inflammation.
The best way to accelerate silent inflammation is to eat too many carbohydrates because that increases the secretion of insulin. Excess insulin not only makes you fat and keeps you fat, but excess insulin also increases silent inflammation in your body.
So, if you want to live better and live longer, then it's simply a matter of keeping insulin in the Zone.
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