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What Is The Spartan Diet? Spartan times call for a Spartan diet. As we emerge from the "Great Recession," many are re-examining their lives and seeking ways to embrace a new attitude of simplicity, self-reliance and frugality. The healthcare debate is bringing attention to the role of modern foods in degrading health and driving healthcare costs sky high. We have created a powerful new approach to diet that satisfies the growing demand for a whole new way to eat, one that will change how people think about food, weight loss, health and life. A fast-growing trend in both food and health is a new awareness about the dangers of processed and industrial foods, and the many benefits of real, whole, farm-fresh foods. The leading author advocates of this movement, which include Alice Waters, Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, tend to emphasize a pleasure-seeking, Epicurean approach to healthier foods. The Spartan Diet will be the hard-core, health-first flank of the real-foods movement. You might say it's the "art of incredibly simple food." It resolves the "omnivore's dilemma." And it does this by taking lessons from ancient Sparta, a "nation" where "fast food" meant food that helps you run fast the kind of food that enabled Spartan athletes to dominate the ancient Olympic Games. Beyond mere positioning, The
Spartan Diet is fundamentally different from other diets. It's a
life-long, comprehensive approach to food and health that combines the
best information from recent science with lost wisdom from the ancient
world.
Rather than showing readers how to fake good health with temporary weight loss, The Spartan Diet promotes actual transformation toward optimum health. Weight loss (for people who are overweight) follows naturally. As we detail in the book, Ancient Spartans ate a superior version of what you might call the "original Mediterranean diet" not the compromised, industrialized version popular today. The healthiest foods yet identified by our most cutting edge research olive oil, garlic, pomegranates, figs, whole grains, apples, grapes, flax seeds, lentils and many other so-called superfoods composed the daily, life-long diet of ancient Spartans. Unlike their contemporary Greeks, Spartans enjoyed distinct dietary advantages. For example, every Spartan citizen owned a farm capable of feeding dozens or hundreds of people. The very best produce, wine, grains and meat from these farms was reserved for Spartans, their mess-mates and families. Spartans hunted, and preferred wild game in very measured quantities over domesticated meats. Spartans also cultivated familiarity with hunger, both for health (predating discoveries about calorie restriction by more than two and a half millennia) and to develop inner strength useful in war. Even more importantly, however, these amazing people lived by a unique set of rules, attitudes and practices that forged every Spartan citizen into an austere, disciplined super-athlete. Excessive eating or drinking was banned. Both women and men, young and old, trained as if they would compete in the Olympics. The Spartan Diet is based on
Spartan foods, attitudes and practices for staying strong and lean in an
age of wealth and plenty. It also incorporates the best food science of
our own time, and the healthiest foods from all over the world. We
believe The Spartan Diet is quite simply the healthiest diet in history.
NOTE: The Spartan Diet is a fully developed diet and lifestyle, but details have not yet been published anywhere. Although some elements will be published daily on the Spartan Diet Blog, and later in other media, the only way to get full access to the diet is via the Spartan Diet Coaching Program. If you'd like to get on our mailing list to be updated with information about the Spartan Diet, please click here to send us an e-mail (your address will never be shared with anyone).
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