Zone Diet software and free recipes

Zone Diet Supplements

Barry Sears outlines some practical amounts of vitamins and other supplements in A Week in the Zone. Here is the summary. The Mother Nature company has some of the best s, quality and availability on the internet of these supplements. You can browse their web site using the link below.

Download the free demo version of Zonawares Zone Diet recipe program, ZoneRunner from this page. The program will NEVER expire. some features are locked in order to entice you to buy the UNLOCK KEY. Installs on Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP and ME.

ZoneRunner has many great features for people using the Zone diet.

Download the free version and check it out.

Select ingredients from 6,000-ingredient database

Filter ingredients to show only YOUR ingredients or only ingredients used in recipes

Easily adjust ingredient quantities with mouse clicks

Recipes protein-carb-fat ratios are instantly recalculated

Shows pct. of calories balance from protein, carbs and fat

Shows pct. favorable carbs and evaluates fat choices

Shows recipes current blocks and grams

Adjust recipe to any block size instantly

Adjust recipe-saved-as-ingredient to any measure amount

Enter your lean body mass (LBM) and activity level

Shows how many meals or snacks for YOU in a recipe based on your LBM

Enter your own ingredients and use in recipes

Make ingredients from recipes and use in other recipes.

Ingredient-recipes retain their pct. favorable carbs and fats when used in other recipes

Clone (rename copies of) ingredients

Enter your favorite recipes and make Zone compliant

Icons and special tools let you know whats wrong with your recipe.

Save and print your recipes

Complete context sensitive Help

Import and Export recipes. share with your friends and internet

Zone Diet Books by Barry Sears PhD

All of these books are available at Amazon.com. Please come back after reading more on the Amazon site.

What is the Zone Diet

The Zone diet is an eating plan (and a book) that outlines possibly the best health advice available to us mere mortals. The book, The Zone, and the entire concept of the Zone diet, are the brainchild of Dr. Barry Sears, PhD.

In his first book Dr. Sears describes the hormonal effects of foods we eat. He details how excess carbohydrates or calories increase the bloods glucose level which leads to dangerous effects from increased insulin. You MUST read this magnificent book. Many thousands of people are reaping the benefits. In a later book, The Anti-Aging Zone, Barry Sears teaches us more about calorie restriction, how it has been proven to radically increase animal life spans, why it works, and why it will work for you. Other books, such as Mastering The Zone and A Week In The Zone, simplify the whole process

The Zone, and Zone diet, used in context of the research of Dr. Barry Sears, is copyrighted by Dr. Barry Sears. To find out more about the Zone please visit the official Zone web sites. They have an excellent discussion group, other professional opinions, recipes, advice, etc.

Here is link to the official Zone Diet web site, Dr. Sears site. Please come back later.

Calculate your Lean Body Mass (LBM) on the ZonePerfect site. Then paste the LBM number into ZoneRunner.
Zoneperfect calculator

Learning about the Zone Diet
The Zonaware web site and ZoneRunner cannot really teach you about the Zone Diet. You need to read the books. Zonaware is concentrating on making good Zone diet software to help you reach your goals. Please join one of the discussion groups mentioned and READ Dr. Sears books. Come back here for software support to help you reach your goals. The Zone diet is technical and utilizing technology has never been more important in nutrition than it is in the ZONE diet. Hope you like ZoneRunner and come back and visit.

Free Zone Diet recipes. Share your Zone Diet recipes with the world. Please bookmark this page, because in the near future more and more recipes will be available for printing or downloading into ZoneRunner. The recipes will be available to everyone for printing but the download files will only be useful for ZoneRunner import, not very readable by humans. Registered owners of ZoneRunner 1.51 and above can easily import the recipes directly into ZoneRunner and make changes as they wish.

Why is Zonawares recipe software better in many ways than competing products First, it has an intuitive, three-step process to create a recipe. When you adjust the ingredient amounts, the program instantly shows the impact on many important factors relating to Dr. Sears program. 30-40-30 (same as 40-30-30) balance, percentage of favorable carbohydrates, percentage of favorable fats, total calories, protein, carbohydrate, and fats are immediately updated. Its easy to adjust ingredients using your mouse and the up/down buttons.

ZoneRunner recognizes zone diet-favorable carbohydrate and fats choices. Since using vegetables and fruits for the main source of your carbohydrates is recommended in the Zone (its a requirement, really) ZoneRunner rewards you with a happy face when the percentage of you carbs from those sources gets over 50pct. and an even happier face if over 75pct.. This retro-70s happy face thing is just an easy way to indicate when you are making the right choices. The prominence of favorable fats is indicated with another happy face icon. Since most fats should come from monounsaturated sources such as olive oil, canola oil, avocado and certain nuts, the programs fat choices happy face gets happy when you choose from those foods as your fat source. Remember that fats are an important component in the Zone -- and fat will not make you fat. the wrong choices of carbohydrates will.

Why was our software developed Dr. Barry Sears, father of the Zone Diet, mentions in his books a rule of thumb for estimating a proper balanced meal. He says to have a piece of protein, like chicken breast, no bigger or thicker than the palm of your hand, and to fill 2/3 of your plate with Zone-favorable vegetables, and finally have a small amount of monounsaturated fat, such as a little avocado guacamole. There are two problem with this simple rule (which actually works pretty well).

It gets boring.

It just doesnt work for soups, casseroles, salads, and so on. Some time in 1996, Peder Hultin, founder of Zonaware, started developing a spreadsheet to calculate recipe balances. It turned out to be pretty much of a hassle to use. He decided he needed to write his own program. At the time, he was learning Visual Basic at his job, and realized he could use his knowledge to create a useful tool for himself. In September 1997 he set out designing and coding what became ZoneRunner version 0. Almost five years later he is still adding features. For most of those years he paid lots of money (supporting the Zonaware web site) to give ZoneRunner away for FREE. Now he has changed it to shareware, hoping to support the website and even get some rewards back for all his hard work.