false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185855159m/1611491.jpg 1611495 3 The world has grown increasingly curious about the benefits of soy in recent years. Not only is it a dietary staple of the people of Okinawa, who live longer than anyone else, it also seems to help prevent heart disease and breast and prostate cancer.<p> So author Barry Sears has now modified his popular Zone diet to include soy and made the whole thing just as easy to follow as before. Fill a third of your dinner plate with a dish high in soy protein and the other two-thirds with fruits and vegetables, and you've got the Zone dialed in.<p> Not surprisingly, Sears is just as down on starchy foods--potatoes, pasta, rice, breads, and cereals--in <I>The Soy Zone</I> as he has been in his past books. He says they trigger too large an insulin surge, which leaves people feeling sluggish a couple of hours after the meal, and sends them chasing after another burst of quick energy in the form of other insulin-generating carbohydrates. That, he says, makes people fat. He also comes down on traditional vegetarian diets for that same reason: "The insidious long-term consequence of a grain-based vegetarian diet is the constant elevation of insulin levels," he writes.<p> The payoffs of taking this detour into the soy zone are immediate, Sears notes. He promises that people following his diet will think better, feel more energized, look better (he predicts a five-pound weight loss after two weeks on the Zone diet, including about two to three pounds of retained water), and experience fewer sugar cravings. Even better, the addition of 50 daily grams of soy to the diet should reduce total cholesterol levels by about 9 percent, shrinking the risk of heart disease by 20 percent. Add it all up and you get a longer life at a lighter weight--a heck of a promise, but one Sears, as always, is confident the Zone can deliver. <I>--Lou Schuler</I> 1605180 1 7 2000 The Soy Zone total:6|5:2|3:3|2:1| 6 21 16 1 3 0 false false Sat Feb 23 04:35:04 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 23 04:36:58 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Nov 02 09:49:42 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 09:49:42 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Aug 17 17:17:35 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 17:17:35 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jun 05 22:44:32 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 22:44:32 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Mar 27 16:01:07 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 16:01:07 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Mar 20 16:40:30 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 16:40:41 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Feb 06 20:38:04 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 20:38:04 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jan 25 15:49:43 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 15:49:43 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Tue Mar 24 12:21:34 -0700 2009 Sat Jan 10 17:17:52 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 24 12:21:34 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Nov 16 13:32:28 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 16 13:32:28 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Fri Sep 19 16:02:53 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 19 16:03:10 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Thu Jul 31 13:22:57 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 13:22:57 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Aug 26 19:04:11 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 04 07:17:05 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 19:04:11 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Sun Jun 08 12:26:52 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 08 12:27:07 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Mar 23 22:59:03 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 23 22:59:03 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Wed Aug 29 06:09:11 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 06:09:19 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1611491