About the Spartan Diet

The Spartan Diet is the healthiest diet in history.

Informed by ancient practices, new science and nine years of development, the Spartan Diet is not another weight-loss plan or fitness fad, but a revolution in healthy living.

The Spartan Diet was created by Amira Elgan, who is co-authoring a book of the same name with husband Mike Elgan. 

Amira Elgan is a board-certified holistic health counselor and healthy lifestyle coach accredited by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners; a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition; and certificated in Integrative Nutrition from Teachers College, Columbia University.

As a healthy living coach, Amira has developed a comprehensive Spartan Diet program aimed at helping people transform their lives.

Amira also serves as a restaurant consultant. She has written columns for the Organic Network, Green Living Magazine and articles for the Environmental Living web site. 

She has taught healthy cooking classes for Whole Foods Market Culinary Centers and the Sur La Table Culinary Program.

Amira has created innovative, healthy recipes for more than 20 years. She is also a fitness expert with a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. 

Mike Elgan is a writer, editor and speaker who specializes in culture, lifestyle and technology. He writes blogs and opinion columns primarily for  technology publications. His daily blogs and weekly columns reach more than 3 million readers per month. 

Over the past 20 years, Mike has worked in top-level editorial positions, including Editor-in-Chief for Windows Magazine and a wide range of other technology-related magazines, newspapers, blogs and newsletters, most of which he founded or helped launch. 

Mike is an accomplished public speaker, and has served as a speaker for, or has moderated, hundreds of business events and sessions at major industry trade shows for nearly two decades. He has also appeared on BBC, CNN and CNBC and been interviewed and quoted by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR and many other TV, radio, print and online media.

The Spartan Diet is a product of Elgan Media, Inc., a California-based publishing company with five employees.