Includes index.

Life in the zone -- Fattening of America -- Hormonal effects of food -- Eicosanoids - the short course -- Elite athletes in the zone -- Exercise in the zone -- Boundaries of the zone -- Your dietary road map to the zone -- Evolution and the zone -- Vitamins, minerals, and the zone -- Aspirin: the wonder drug -- Wonder hormones: eicosanoids - the long course -- Zone and your heart -- Cancer and the zone -- Chronic diseases and the zone -- Zone and life extension -- Summing up -- Appendixes.