If you're a Zone Diet follower or just want to spend less time in the kitchen, you might try the Chefs Diet to see whether the meal delivery system matches your life. The Chefs Diet is a weight-loss program that claims to help you shed pounds, maintain consistent blood sugar levels and experience more energy, according to the program's website.
Identification
Based on the concept of Dr. Barry Sears' Zone diet, the Chefs Diet is a weight-reduction program that delivers fresh meals to New York, Connecticut and New Jersey, and frozen meals to other areas in the United States. Each Chefs Diet meal and snack items are prepared with a ratio of 30 percent favorable fats, 30 percent carbohydrates and 40 percent protein, according to ChefsDiet.com.
Theories/Speculation
According to DrSears.com, the "zone" is a physiological bodily occurrence in which the hormones that control inflammation in your body are never too high or too low. Therefore, when you eat the right foods at the right times of day, your body stays within the zone and you lose weight and experience better health through the reversal of silent inflammation that has been wreaking havoc on your organs because of improper diet, notes Dr. Sears' website.
Programs
Chefs Diet offers three packaged meal programs that include sample menu items such as smoked chicken and spinach soufflé, corned beef hash and egg breakfast, chicken breast Piccata and southern-style pulled pork. The company will also accommodate special dietary needs or food allergies with alternate menu items, according to ChefsDiet.com. It also offers a certified kosher program.
Considerations
In a comparative study performed from February 2003 to October 2005 by Stanford Prevention Research Center and the Department of Medicine at Stanford University Medical School, 311 overweight, premenopausal, nondiabetic women were randomly assigned to follow the Zone Diet, the Atkins Diet, the LEARN Diet or the Ornish Diet for two supervised months and 10 unsupervised months. During the clinical trial, the women's weight, cholesterol levels, glucose levels, body fat percentages, fasting insulin and waist-hip ratios were recorded at zero, two, six and 12 months. At the end of the study, the women who followed the Atkins Diet lost more weight and had favorable or comparable metabolic effects than the women who followed the Zone, LEARN or Ornish Diets, according to the report published in the 2007 Journal of the American Medical Association.
Warning
Speak with your doctor about the Chefs Diet meal delivery program before you begin the diet. You might have dietary needs that the program does not address, or you might have a medical condition that could be better managed with a prescribed dietary treatment plan.
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