Introduction to
                 a different way of eating

Over the past twenty years, the Health Department and organizations including the National Health & Medical Council, the National Heart Foundation and the Diabetic Association in Australia have endorsed and promoted a "healthy diet" pyramid, which includes six to eight servings daily of cereals, grains, pasta and bread which, together with vegetables and fruit, make up a carbohydrate intake of 60%. The rest of the dietary intake is composed of Protein 20% and Fats and Oils 20% as poly/monounsaturated oils.

With thirty years of nutrition oriented research the Institute is of the opinion that the result of this diet, in terms of health status of the population, includes an increase in diabetes of 200% and obesity of 32% with additional immeasurable escalation since 1947 of chronic illness conditions and killer diseases.

The reasons are of course multifactorial especially in terms of the health authority's failure to promote Predictive-Preventive medicine on an equal footing with primary sickness care. In nutritional terms it has been proven by medical research that:

1. An unfavourable Insulin-Glucagon response with consequent hyperinsulinism and additional adipose (fat) tissue is a major risk factor to:
2. Hyperinsulinism which, uncontrolled, becomes Insulin Resistance (Diabetes) and the increased body fat becomes obesity
3. Both clinical conditions are risk factors for hypertension, heart disease and, in the case of diabetes, serious eye, kidney and vascular complication; it is important to note that the No.1 biological marker for breast cancer is obesity.
4. All of which, unattended, may lead to premature death.
The Insulin Zone System is scientifically proven to prevent all of the above conditions and more. 

Insulin Zone Diet
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What the Clinical Director of the Institute has to say about the Zone:
As a practitioner of twenty nine years in Biological Medicine, it is my experience that the 40:30:30 diet achieves a predictable outcome in almost all illness conditions, which arise from cellular malnutrition.

Cellular malnutrition always exists where there is a history of maldigestion simply because where we have maldigestion there must be malabsorption and consequent cellular malnutrition. This is an inviolable law of cellular biochemistry. The same applies of course to metabolic errors, which may arise from a diversity of causes. It is interesting to note that the major reason for hospitalization in our society is disorders of digestion.
 

The Zone diet consists of a dietary intake of 40% low glycemic vegetables and some fruit; 30% low fat protein and 30% of fat as monounsaturated oils which, as olive oil for dressings and cooking is proven non-cancer causing, fish oil and/or flax seed oil supply the very essential fatty acids we know as omega-3. On this note I believe that modern nomenclature is misleading to the general population. When I first studied biochemistry we were informed that fat was solid at room temperature and that oil was liquid at room temperature. For reasons unknown to myself, all oils and fat are now classified as fat. This I call fat-mania, just as we have been exposed for the past few decades to cholesterol-mania. When I recommend this dietary way of life to a patient I can confidently guarantee an improvement in the quality of life of at least 50%. If you can get a better guarantee than that, I say "go for it". Be aware that the arm-chair or media-popular nutritionists and dieticians will rubbish the Zone Diet as high protein and therefore undesirable. This is not so. Our original dietary intake until the last 60 years or so was in fact closer to a 40:30:30 diet than the present 60:20:20 diet. Recall that these same people rubbish the ABO Blood Type Diet. It is my opinion that they may feel threatened by information they did not receive during their early training. "To broaden the mind is to increase the possibilities".
Geoffrey Leigh.,MSc.,N.D., Dip.Nutr.Sc.,Dip.Biol.Med.,F.I.A.M.P.,F.A.I.B.M.

An informative booklet including The Insulin Zone & Metabolic Typing System is available free from the Institute. Email: functionmed@gmail.com

References:

Replacing carbohydrate with protein in the diet improves weight loss.

 Skov AR, et al.  Randomized trial on protein vs carbohydrate in ad libitum fat reduced diet for the treatment of obesity.  Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord May 1999 23 (5) :528-36

 "Replacement of some dietary carbohydrate by protein in an ad libitum fat-reduced diet, improves weight loss and increases the proportion of subjects achieving a clinically relevant weight loss."

 High carbohydrate diets increase cardiovascular risk.

 Roche HM.  Dietary carbohydrates and triacylglycerol metabolism.  Proc Nutr Soc Feb 1999 58 (1): 201-7

 "Traditionally, a low-fat high-carbohydrate diet was used to prevent CHD because it effectively reduces plasma cholesterol concentrations. but this dietary regimen increases plasma TAG concentrations and reduces HDL-cholesterol concentrations.  There is substantial epidemiological evidence which demonstrates that high plasma TAG and low plasma HDL concentrations are associated with an increased risk of CHD."