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I have been reading about the anti-inflammatory benefits of the Zone diet. Has anyone had any REAL success either with decreasing specific symptoms or just feeling better in general following this diet?
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randibear
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i don't know if if it's true or not, but i've read that it doesn't work. no diet based on blood type has proven to be effective, is what they say.
i don't know.
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I recently read a book called Good Calories, Bad Calories and basically the author's message is EVERYTHING we have been told about a healthy diet is dead WRONG.
Interestingly the situation described sounded similiar to the lyme debate that currently rages. It seems the wrong conclusions were drawn by powerful people and the train just sort of left the station going down the wrong track.
Fat is not the enemy.....carbohydrates are! sugars....bad. Yup, Atkins and the other docs going back to the 20's were right. Dietary fat does not cause heart disease and cancer or diabetes or ..........
So having said that, I have never done the zone diet, but the less sugar I eat and with generous doses of fat (not the bad kind in CHEEZITS -transfatty), but unadulterated natural kind the better I feel and the leaner I am.
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I went on this diet when I was being treated for Lyme in 2003. It made me totally worse, however, I "think" it was the sugar in the diet and I was struggling with Candida bigtime.
The Zone diet does not exclude sugar...that's the bad part about it for Lyme and the gut while on abx.
I think the anti-candida diet is the best diet while you're being treated for TBD's. A good resource is "The Yeast Connection".
I think it's a win/win because you lose weight, while starving the yeast and the Lyme.
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I went on the Zone diet with my husband in 1995, before I contracted Lyme. It worked GREAT for both of us!! Lots more energy and lost weight I'd gained.
However, since having Lyme, these benefits have faded away. But, I might be doing pretty well in spite of the Lyme due to the diet.
Best,
Cass A
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I did it for about 6 mos. I found it very restrictive. I was starving all the time.
i lost weight on it, but like any other diet i could not stick to it because you can't live your life depriving yourself forever, and gained all the weight back
the best diet, and the only one I was able to stick to for any length of time was atkins. i lost 40 pounds and kept it off for 5 years. i was never hungry
the past year i gained it all back. i just don't have the willpower anymore to diet
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-transfatty), but unadulterated natural kind the better I feel and the leaner I am.
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