Prepare yourself for the summer - The Zone Diet

In reference to this diet, the area is a metabolic state in which the body is working at its maximum peak efficiency. In it, your body will function better, without hunger pangs, full of energy and with maximum efficiency during physical performance.
ZonaIl food diet is the most powerful medicine we have available and we have to take it like this, in a controlled way and in the right proportions.

These are the key points of the ZONE DIET, diet most discussed in recent years.
Its founder, an American biochemist Barry Sears, argues that balancing the three macronutrients (carbohydrates, proteins, fats) can achieve a state of optimal physical and mental health. Furthermore, the area allows a considerable reduction of body fat, if this was present in excess.
All this would be done through:

- Control of eicosanoids
Eicosanoids are a group of hormones including prostaglandins, thromboxanes and the leukotrienes, hydroxy fatty acids and so on., Produced in small quantities by every cell in our body. They are very complex and have a short life: they carry out their physiological function and then self-destruct.
Many are their functions within the body. Like all hormones, eicosanoids, as well as being chemical messengers, have antagonistic effects. That is, eicosanoids are "good" and "bad."

EICOSANOIDS "GOOD" EICOSANOIDS "BAD"
They help inhibit platelet aggregation platelet aggregation
They help promote vasodilation vasoconstriction
Stimulate the immune response Depress the immune response
They help fight inflammation inflammation

Since the human body balance is synonymous with health, while imbalance is synonymous with disease, the area is proposed to achieve the perfect balance between the production of eicosanoids antagonists, since both are used for the performance of the natural functions of our body.
- Control of the hormones insulin and glucagon.
Insulin, produced by the pancreas, is a strong anabolic hormone that has the function of storing the nutrients within the cells.
When we eat, there occurs a rise in blood glucose in the blood that stimulates the action of insulin, which, transmitting the nutrients into the cells, shows blood levels of glucose in the standard.
When we take in too many calories and especially when they come from carbohydrates, you have a strong rush of blood glucose, thereby causing a high insulin response which, after filling the reserves liver and muscle stores all the excess carbohydrates into fat cells. In other words: excesses of insulin induce an accumulation of fat.
Glucagon, however, is the antagonist of insulin, which mobilizes stored energy reserves. It is stimulated by a diet high in protein and low in carbohydrates. Like insulin, when it is secreted in excess, it causes harm to the organism.
The area check out these two hormones through a balance between carbohydrates, proteins and fats, preventing excessive fluctuations of blood glucose have, responsible for many of fattening and disease.
Also on the first book by Barry Sears, "how to get to the area," studies are presented which demonstrate that such nutritional regimen has led to improved physical and psychological condition of patients suffering from serious diseases like diabetes.
The rules of the "Zone"

1) In each meal you should take the right proportions of carbohydrates, proteins and fats (the ratio of calories should be 40% -30% -30%).
2) In between meals and the other did not have to spend more than 5 hours. If a longer time elapses, you must have a snack. In this way the day is composed of at least three main meals and two snacks.
3) And 'necessary to minimize the consumption of sweets, bread, pasta, rice and refined cereals with high glycemic index, that is, strong stimulators of insulin.
4) And 'need to eat plenty of vegetables and fruit with low glycemic index, that is, carbohydrates that stimulate insulin gradually.
5) To get a proper hormonal response, a snack must be composed of at least one block of carbohydrates, proteins and fats.
6) The last snack should be that evening (before bedtime), unless you've dined within the previous two hours.
As shown by the first rule, the Zone diet differs from the classic food pyramid that imposes its base carbohydrates (pasta, bread, cereals etc..). Compared to the Mediterranean diet, the Zone diet reduces fat and proteins to a very small percentage, with a market share of 40% carbohydrate (mainly in the form of fruits and vegetables), 30% protein (meat and low-fat cheese, fish, eggs etc..) and 30% lipid (preferably monounsaturated as olive oil).