Have carbs had their day?
As many PP readers will be aware, the ‘Zone Diet’, conceived by Dr Barry Sears and described in his book, ‘Enter the Zone’, promises on the face of it all the above benefits and more, and as a result has become a high-profile fad diet. Early in the 1990s, Dr Sears convinced the coach of the Stanford swimming team in the US to put his team on the Zone diet. Team members went on to win eight gold medals at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 and a further eight gold medals at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Once ‘demonstrated’ in swimming, the Zone diet was adopted by a range of sportspeople including personal trainers, mountaineers, a professional motorcycle racer and two competitive martial artists currently ranked in the top five in every world organisation in karate and kick boxing. And there’s more. The Zone diet is claimed to help allergies, bowel disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome and many other conditions. Does it all sound too good to be true? What is the Zone diet? According to Dr Sears
