Dr. Barry Sears, creator of The Zone Diet, (http://www.drsears.com) refutes a study that says women who follow the low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet that the US government recommends lose weight. A close look at the study indicates that women who followed the diet actually gain fat.

Dr. Meg Jordan is the Global Medicine Hunter®. A sort of medical Indiana Jones, this plucky medical anthropologist and health journalist searches the globe for healing remedies, tests them for validity and spreads the word about the winners in an entertaining format.

After Sam Hoffman was diagnosed with a brain tumor at the age of 16 and suffered months of chemotherapy, the 6-footer from Marblehead weighed 110 pounds. Nausea and dehydration took their toll on his eating habits. He couldn't stomach high-fat, high-sugar hospital foods and mainly ate the meals his family brought in.

Dr. Barry Sears, the creator of Zone Diet , has purchased 5 units of Meridian's Digital Pulse Analyzer (DPA) specifically to use the Heart Rate Variability (HRV) software.

Dr Barry Sears, together with his Hershey Foods Corp. partner for producing SmartZone nutritional bar, might become main characters in one of the grimmest intellectual property disputes in American history.