Promotes low-fat protein foods. Complicated rules govern the diet. Dieters must calculate protein requirements based on complex charts and tables. Strict, controlled diet which does not work for the fast-paced lifestyles of today. Recommends that for the average person a Zone-favorable diet should contain no more than 800 to 1,200 calories a day.
Food is treated like a medical prescription.
You must treat food as if it were a drug. You must eat food in a controlled fashion in the proper proportions, as if it were an intravenous drip. Truth Excess calories cause weight gain, not specific carbohydrates. . Not one of the studies that Sears conducted to prove his diet works has been published. Diets recommending less than 800 calories may be dangerous and should be medically supervised.