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Formula Zone Review
by No1Reviews.com.
Last updated: 01 June 2010
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- Formula Zone offers a number of membership options
which differ in value and duration:
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- 3
Months: $24.99
- 6
Months: $39.99
- 12
Months: $62.99
- 100% money-back 14-day guarantee if you're not
totally satisfied with Formula Zone!
- Diet features:
- Get access to more than 3000 Zone Diet recipes
- a great variety that will make it easier for you
to stick to your diet plan.
- Use the Formula Zone Diet Profiler to calculate
how many calories you should be consuming each day
based on your height, weight, gender and activity
level.
- Use the Menu Planner and Personal Cookbook to
construct your own personal menu.
- Use the Shopping list function to automatically
print out shopping lists based on your weekly
menus.
- Use the fast food analyzer and nutrition label
analyzer to help make you make smart food choices
in restaurants and the grocery store.
- Use the Zone Recipe Builder and Substitution
List to customize your meals to your tastes.
- Fitness features:
- According to Dr. Sears, 30 minutes of moderate
exercise 3-5 days a week, in conjunction with the Zone approach to eating, can
help decrease inflammation within your fat cells
and simultaneously help control insulin levels.
Unfortunately, Formula Zone offers no specific
advice or resources for the exercise part of its
users diet.
- Expert Advice:
- Developed under the guidance of health
professionals, expert nutritionists and
dietitians.
- Community Support:
- Unfortunately, Formula Zone does not provide
any community features, such as message boards or
forums.
- Help Files / Technical Support:
- A set of Frequently Asked Questions lets users
(and prospective users) get any of their questions
answered.
- You can contact Customer Support by
telephone or email 9.00 a.m.- 6.00 p.m. (EST)
Monday to Friday and 10:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m. (EST) on
Saturday.
- Email questions are answered promptly - usually
within one working day.
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- Use the Progress log to keep a record of your
weight loss and diet progress.
- Specific advice for diabetics and vegetarians
following the Zone Diet.
Formula Zone is a leading diet site
based around the diet and nutrition scheme established by
the Zone Diet. The Zone Diet is based around the concept
that successful weight loss and generally feeling healthy
is based on a proper hormone balance, triggered by eating
the correct foods, in the correct quantities. 'The Zone'
is therefore this ideal hormone balance that should be
attained in order to facilitate a healthy lifestyle and
stable weight loss.
The diet that should be followed in order to achieve this
perfect balance is based upon a 40:30:30 ratio intake of
carbohydrates, proteins and fats, and thus could be
described as a 'moderate carbohydrate diet' (as compared
to the high carbohydrate diet of most Americans today).
Dr. Sears' diet has been popularized through a range of
incredibly successful books, of which more than 5 million
copies have been sold in the US alone. The diet has also
been a hit with celebrities, with Jennifer Anniston,
Renee Zellweger, Cindy Crawford, Charlie Sheen, Tom
Cruise, Maribel Guardia, Levi Leipheimer, BJ Penn and
Tiger Woods all having been reported to have followed the
diet at some point. The diet was also examined on the PBS
show Scientific American Frontiers, in a non-scientific
study. Of all the diets examined, the Zone Diet had the
greatest fat loss of the users in the study, and users
also reported it as the easiest to follow - having the
fewest adverse health effects such as fatigue or
continual hunger.
While the Zone Diet itself is not unique to Formula Zone,
the real beauty of using this site is the wealth of
user-friendly features that exist to make following the
zone diet easier. Firstly, users get access to the
excellent Zone Diet Profiler, which decides on a specific
calorie intake goal for you based on your gender, weight,
height, activity level and weight loss goals. Using this
information dieters can set about planning weekly menus
to ensure they achieve their daily calorie intake levels
and eat healthily, according to the Zone Diet principles.
Users have access to a massive recipe library, which is
growing all of the time, and contains more than 3,000
unique 'zone' recipes. If you find a recipe you really
like, you can drag it into your personal cookbook, which
can also be used to construct your weekly meal plan. If
you create a zone recipe yourself, you can share this
with the community by adding it to your cookbook and
sharing it with other users. Users can also automatically
generate shopping lists for the necessary weekly
ingredients, and, ingeniously, automatically size up a
recipe based on the number of people who are eating it.
Cooking for the whole family whilst following a diet plan
really hasn't been easier! Alongside all of this, users
also get a great substitution finder (which allows users
to find substitute foods to those they don't like or
can't find at the grocery store), a nutrition label
analyzer, fast food restaurant analyzer and much
more.
The strength of Formula Zone is, as we said above, the
excellent range of tools and resources that are featured
on the site. That said, Formula Zone doesn't provide any
tools or support regarding exercise and fitness, nor does
it provide any meaningful community-based features, such
as forums or message boards. These failings really do let
this site down, as it would easily make our top ten if it
weren't for these notable absences. Its still worth a
look though, so hit the link below to check it out! Click on the button below to check out FormulaZone.com for yourself...
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