The zone diet was conceived by Barry Sears in the 1990s and is one of the dietary regimes that has aroused the most interest in recent times.
There is also an Italian zone diet, closer to the tastes of Europeans. In any case, those who want to follow this diet should follow a well-defined scheme for counting calories and nutrients introduced with each meal.
One of the questions that arises when we want to start the zone diet is: where do I find the recipes? Here are some indications on how to find recipes for your zone diet.
The calculation of blocks in the zone diet
The first thing you need to do to develop your daily menu and therefore your zone diet recipes is to calculate the number of blocks .
The number of blocks depends on many factors: sex, physical activity, weight, waist circumference ... it is therefore very complicated to do it independently.
There are some websites where you can calculate them yourself, but the advice is to take automatic calculations with calipers and contact a nutritionist or dietician; it is also important to have all the principles and mechanisms of this food style well explained. The zone diet is a very special regime and the skills of an expert are needed to elaborate the one most suited to the individual.
It is also necessary to know that, once calculated, the number of blocks is not invariable; this, in fact, is obtained by multiplying the lean mass by the degree of physical activity and therefore changes every time there is a variation in these two factors.
After calculating the blocks where the recipes can be found?
Once the blocks have been calculated, where can the recipes for the zone diet be found? The nutritionist or dietician will be able to give different indications on how to prepare their own meals; it is however possible to find recipe archives also online; the offer of local recipes available on specialized websites is in fact quite vast and varied.
There are also sites where you can elaborate your own menus and find, for example, breakfasts in the area, snacks in the area and information on the main meals.
There are also several publications containing interesting tips and recipes for the zone diet, including, for example, Natural cuisine with the area of Angela Colli, The area in Eighty minutes of Gigliola Braga and The easy zone in the kitchen by Paolo Peducci and Laura Sardi.
These are just some of the sources of recipes for the diet area that can be found with a little research. However, the advice is, as for all diets, to avoid DIY, at least at the beginning, and therefore to be guided by an expert.
