On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 20:07:48 +0300, Juhana Harju wrote in
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Quoted message said:Make a combination of both and cut carbs within the Mediterranean context.
The current Joslin diabetes center recommendation agree with this suggestion
although they don't use the word Mediterranean.
http://joslin.org/news/nutritionarticle.shtml
Dr Sears claims that "Joslin endorses the Zone (kind of)".
What do reckon?
Anyway, Sear's Zone is not *that far* from a "traditional Mediterranean
diet", well a "reduced carbs" one at least! 🙂
From Dr Sear's official site:
http://www.drsears.com/drsearspages/zonemondaypage.jsp
Joslin endorses the Zone (kind of)
By Dr. Barry Sears
The Joslin Diabetes Center, which is affiliated with Harvard Medical
School, is the leading diabetic research center in the world. Therefore
dietary recommendations that the Joslin Center puts out to their patients
reverberate in the diabetic world. After decades of supporting the
high-carbohydrate dietary recommendations of the American Diabetes
Association (ADA), the Joslin Center is suddenly breaking ranks by
endorsing a dietary program that is suspiciously similar to the Zone Diet.
The "new" recommendations of the Joslin Center call for 40 percent of
calories coming from carbohydrates, about 30 percent from protein, and
about 30 percent from fat. If these recommendations sound like the Zone
Diet, they are. Even though all the scientific data supporting these new
recommendations have been continuously mentioned in my books over the past
10 years, unfortunately Joslin never mentions the Z word. Maybe no one at
the Joslin Center reads popular books on science, although it is finally
clear that they are reading the same scientific publications that I do. Who
knows, maybe next they will be recommending high-dose fish oil.
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http://www.drsears.com/drsearspages/dietcomparisons.jsp
Mediterranean diet This is the diet used in the Lyon Diet Heart Study,
which demonstrated a 65 percent reduction in fatal heart attacks compared
to a control group who followed the American Heart Association diet. Like
the Zone, the Mediterranean diet keeps saturated fat intake low, stresses
the increased consumption of fruits and vegetables, and the liberal
consumption of Omega-3 fats. As good as these recommendations are, the Zone
actually encourages the consumption of even more fruits and vegetables than
the Mediterranean diet, with a corresponding decrease in the intake of
unfavorable grains and starches. Therefore, the Zone will lower insulin to
a far greater extent. The Zone also recommends even more long-chain Omega-3
fats than the Mediterranean diet, which is important for the
cardiovascular, immune and nervous systems. You should consider the
Mediterranean diet as a less sophisticated version of the Zone.
When compared to all of the popular diets, the Mediterranean diet is the
most similar to the Zone in terms of balance and moderation coupled with
common sense. However, the Zone would lower insulin levels to an even
greater extent than the Mediterranean diet because of its increased fruit
and vegetable consumption and corresponding decrease in the intake of
grains and starches. The Zone would also have more long-chain Omega-3 fats
than the Mediterranean diet does. Finally, you would consume fewer total
calories (thereby increasing longevity) following the Zone compared to the
Mediterranean diet. Considering all the improved hormonal benefits of the
Zone compared to these other popular diets, why would you want to try any
other dietary program?
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