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The truth is that all conventional diets ignore one vital fact: food is the most powerful drug you will ever encounter. Learning how to control hormonal responses to food is your passport to entering and staying in the Zone.

Let me be a little more specific about the rewards you'll reap from staying in the Zone. One is loss of excess body fat. If you have a weight problem, the real problem is excess body fat. Even if you're only slightly overweight, the dietary technology

fat, even though the fat content of these diets is very low. With the Zone-favorable diet I've developed, the fat content is exceptionally important: in fact, it's the biochemical key that ultimately prevents the accumulation of excess body fat. In other words, in a Zone-favorable diet you use fat to lose fat.

Barry Sears, “Fertility & Food, Flavonoids & Inflammation,” Bulletproof Radio, episode 300

That's right: no magic potions, pills, herbs, or mantras. The truth is that every time you open your mouth to eat, you're applying for a passport to the Zone. To get that passport, though, you must treat food as if it were a drug. You must eat food in a controlled fashion and in the proper proportions—as if it were an intravenous drip. Reaching the