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Zone Meals in Seconds: 150 Fast and Delicious Recipes for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner (The Zone) Hardcover – December 23, 2003

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A quick, easy, family-friendly cookbook for the millions of Zone households around the world.

Millions of people worldwide have discovered the incredible weight-loss and health benefits of living in the Zone. For almost 10 years, Lynn and Barry Sears have maintained a completely Zone-friendly kitchen. With two daughters - one a finicky first-grader and one a vegetarian teenager - Lynn has had to use all of her creative and culinary skills to keep her family healthy and happy. Zone Meals in Seconds combines Lynn's hard-won wisdom and valuable experience with Barry's Zone expertise and medical knowledge in the first-ever family-friendly Zone book. From quick and easy family dinner recipes and snack tips, to advice on packing school lunches and surviving backyard barbecues, this book is a must-have for people who want to experience the incredible benefits of the Zone but need help answering the all-important question, 'What do I eat?'Written with the help of an experienced chef and recipe developer, Zone Meals in Seconds offers more than 200 fast and family-tested recipes for Zone-approved breakfasts, lunches, and dinners.

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Dr. Barry Sears is recognized as one of the world's leading medical researchers on the hormonal effects of food. He is the author of the number one New York Times bestseller The Zone as well as Mastering the Zone, Zone-Perfect Meals in Minutes, Zone Food Blocks, A Week in the Zone, The Age-Free Zone, The Top 100 Zone Foods, The Soy Zone, The Omega Rx Zone, Zone Meals in Seconds, and What to Eat in the Zone. His books have sold more than five million copies and have been translated into twenty-two languages in forty countries. He continues his research on the inflammatory process as the president of the nonprofit Inflammation Research Foundation in Marblehead, Massachusetts. The father of two grown daughters, he lives in Swampscott, Massachusetts, with his wife, Lynn.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ William Morrow; 1st edition (December 23, 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0060393114
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0060393113
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.38 x 1.39 x 9.12 inches
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    Barry Sears is a pioneer in biotechnology, specialising in the human body's hormonal responses to different types of diet. He has based his work on Nobel Prize-winning research as well as his own unique research, to create a simple dietary plan that has changed lives. A widely published scientist and researcher, he is President of the biotechnology firm Eicotech and is the bestselling author of The Zone books.

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    Dr. Barry Sears is recognized as one of the world's leading medical researchers on the hormonal effects of food. He is the author of the number one New York Times bestseller The Zone as well as Mastering the Zone, Zone-Perfect Meals in Minutes, Zone Food Blocks, A Week in the Zone, The Age-Free Zone, The Top 100 Zone Foods, The Soy Zone, The Omega Rx Zone, Zone Meals in Seconds, and What to Eat in the Zone. His books have sold more than five million copies and have been translated into twenty-two languages in forty countries. He continues his research on the inflammatory process as the president of the nonprofit Inflammation Research Foundation in Marblehead, Massachusetts. The father of two grown daughters, he lives in Swampscott, Massachusetts, with his wife, Lynn.

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I really enjoyed reading this book! After reading some of the reviews I was a little nervous, but my experience was positive and it’s easy to make adjustments between 3-4 blocks. I think the recipe options are great and the food choices to keep in the zone are great!I also liked the sections that help you prep your kitchen to stay in the zone, very helpful! And shopping guidelines…real helpful!Don’t let the poor vs best options deter you from doing this. No one is 100% at dieting, it’s the fact that you are trying. This book helps educate you on keeping your blood sugar levels in check with proper ways to eat so you don’t get spikes or lows.I’m looking forward to making some food choice changes in my life!Overall this book helps you change your way of thinking about what you are putting into your body and being successful at doing it!
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Amie
5.0 out of 5 stars Easy read
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2023
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I really enjoyed reading this book! After reading some of the reviews I was a little nervous, but my experience was positive and it’s easy to make adjustments between 3-4 blocks. I think the recipe options are great and the food choices to keep in the zone are great!
I also liked the sections that help you prep your kitchen to stay in the zone, very helpful! And shopping guidelines…real helpful!
Don’t let the poor vs best options deter you from doing this. No one is 100% at dieting, it’s the fact that you are trying. This book helps educate you on keeping your blood sugar levels in check with proper ways to eat so you don’t get spikes or lows.
I’m looking forward to making some food choice changes in my life!
Overall this book helps you change your way of thinking about what you are putting into your body and being successful at doing it!
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Amie
5.0 out of 5 stars Easy read
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2023
I really enjoyed reading this book! After reading some of the reviews I was a little nervous, but my experience was positive and it’s easy to make adjustments between 3-4 blocks. I think the recipe options are great and the food choices to keep in the zone are great!
I also liked the sections that help you prep your kitchen to stay in the zone, very helpful! And shopping guidelines…real helpful!
Don’t let the poor vs best options deter you from doing this. No one is 100% at dieting, it’s the fact that you are trying. This book helps educate you on keeping your blood sugar levels in check with proper ways to eat so you don’t get spikes or lows.
I’m looking forward to making some food choice changes in my life!
Overall this book helps you change your way of thinking about what you are putting into your body and being successful at doing it!
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SoCal Walker
5.0 out of 5 stars This one I never loan out, because I use it every day.
Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2012
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I've been eating the "zone" way for a couple of months now, and I love it-- I have a lot more energy, I'm not hungry, and I'm losing weight. (The number on the scale is decreasing *very slowly,* but I know that what I'm losing is all fat, because I look thinner and my clothes are looser for sure.)

Anyway, I want to keep eating this way forever, but it's a whole different way of eating and it requires a whole new set of recipes. This book is the most useful of the Zone books (at least for me, right now) because I don't need to hear about the theory anymore, I just need help implementing it.

And I could make up my own recipes or modify non-zone ones, but what a pain in the neck that would be! These recipes are already worked out-- for example, a way to make blueberry muffins that are zone-favorable. I never would have come up with that on my own.

The appendices in the back are also really helpful for a beginner like me. I consult them every day. I've loaned out my other zone books to friends who were interested in trying it, but this one I never loan out, because I use it every day.
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Duchess
3.0 out of 5 stars Should be "Zone Meals in 30 minutes (or so)"
Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2018
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What planet are they from? Jupiter, where seconds are hours long? These recipes take much longer than a few seconds.Some of them have upwards of 20 ingredients! I'd count on 30 minutes at least, starting from when you have everything out and on the counter with the lids off (smile). I've tried two and one was poorly spiced and the other was bland. That's just two, though in a few more "seconds", I can add my own spices. I like that it refers to the blocks because that's how I learned this system and other books don't always. When I stay in the Zone, I don't have any weight or energy problems. I started doing it in the 80's but got out of the habit, partly because allergies have me staying away from dairy and soy. I will try the lactose-free dairy products and see if I can still breathe. I will still avoid soy. There is a lot of sugar in some of these, just as there is in the bars and powdered drinks. Those affect my blood sugar levels negatively now and I'm starving an hour later and craving carbs. Fructose is the worst. I bought a bag of Splenda just to get me over the hump and back to normal insulin reactions. And it helps me to have a glass of psyllium husks in water when I eat fruit. Maybe he needs to write a "Seniors in the Zone" book.
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Sybil C
4.0 out of 5 stars Meals that you have time too cook
Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2008
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I purchased this book in paperback and have used it so much that I now have it in hardcover. Some of the recipes needed tweaking, but several of them are fine just as they are. Many of the recipes are made for convenience: they use canned vegggies, perdue short-cuts chicken, etc. If you cannot quite deal with using canned or frozen veggies, etc., this book would not be for you. I found that the recipes enhanced the ingredients with the spices, so I was actually able to make a "cassoulet" with canned carrots and enjoy it. Some of the recipes are not as fast as you might think, but overall, I have been happy to try to make fast and healthy meals with this book.
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Average Joe
5.0 out of 5 stars Reasonably fast and very delicious, but not in seconds
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2013
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The title of this recipe book is somewhat misleading in that the meals will not take you mere seconds to make; however, with enough planning and some limited culinary skills you can whip up some delicious and very nutritious meals. The highlights of this book are: the introductory chapter explaining the purpose for and the background of the Zone Diet, the variety of meal types (breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks), the taste and satiety of meals, and the relative easy in preparing meals. The directions for preparing meals are simple and almost always correct, and the result is an excellent tasting meal 9 times out of 10. The principles of this diet have become a lifestyle for our family because we both enjoy the meals and recognize the benefits of the meals in our everyday physical and mental performance. We like the book so much we purchased a copy for both of our parents and a sister.
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R. McClaren
5.0 out of 5 stars A Lifestyle Change That’s Easy
Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2021
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They explain that maintaining or losing weight is all about insulin levels, show you how to tweak any meal to keep your insulin in the right zone (hence The Zone Diet), and tell you how to monitor your insulin levels just by paying attention to how your body feels after a meal. Lost almost 25 pounds without ever feeling hungry except for the first few days when I was adjusting to having to write down everything I ate and how it made me feel.
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Nancy Schaub
1.0 out of 5 stars Extremely disappointing
Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2020
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Recipes are skewed to male portions. I do not buy a cookbook to have to rework recipes. Also, for the average senior citizen living alone and of limited means, there are way too many ingredients, including costly ones. I do not have enough room in my apartment to stock the kind of kitchen this book calls for. This is the first Zone book with which I have been disappointed. Waste of money.
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Sheri B
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2013
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Book is great! Recipes are a little time consuming but it is worth it. They taste wonderful! I have made the muffins and can eat them for breakfast and snacks and they are easy to make and easy to grab and go
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Vishal kumar
5.0 out of 5 stars Biggest treasure on Amazon India
Reviewed in India on November 25, 2023
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This book is very useful and full of valuable information.
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Piotr
5.0 out of 5 stars Good and interesting recipes
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 1, 2021
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Many interesting and new receipts to try and learn. It would be good to be more appealing to country specific parts of Europe but it is good enough to discover some new recipes.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on January 12, 2018
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5.0 out of 5 stars Alles perfekt!!!
Reviewed in Germany on April 19, 2018
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Leider denkt mein Postbote, dass ich Gedankenlesen kann und weiß wenn er mein Paket bei der Post hinterlegt. Schlussendlich wurde es zurück geschickt, aber alles kein Problem, der Verkäufer hat nach meiner Kontaktaufnahme sofort nochmal versand und schwubs war es bei mir.
Das Buch selbst ist klarer weise auf Englisch und mit den Maßeinheiten (cups) ein bisschen gewöhnungsbedürftig.
Alles in allem kann ich nur 5 Sterne geben.
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Mrs. N. Brown
5.0 out of 5 stars Good
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 3, 2020
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Quite heavy going
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