New guidelines provide little guidance
Last Updated Aug 2007
While I applaud the government's new recommendation to eat 5 to 13 servings of
fruits and vegetables (the Zone Diet recommends 10-15 servings) per day, the new
nutritional guidelines still provide little guidance to any practical approach to a
low glycemic-load diet like the Zone Diet. The strongest recommendation of the new
dietary guidelines is to exercise 90 minutes a day to lose weight. This appears
to be unrealistic in today's world. On the other hand, the Zone Diet has been
shown consistently to be a diet without hunger since it maintains blood sugar
levels between meals. Furthermore, the Zone Diet has been shown by Harvard Medical
School to be an anti-inflammatory diet. In the absence of any truly solid dietary
guidelines, the best advice is to explore www.drsears.com and take control of your
dietary future using dietary recommendations that have been consistently
demonstrated to provide superior results to the recommendations of the USDA.