What Is The Spartan Diet?

The Spartan Diet is influenced by, but is not a re-creation of, foods eaten in Classical Sparta. We know far more about food and nutrition now, and there are far more healthful foods available to us than the limited range available in Ancient Greece.

We have created a powerful new approach to diet that we believe will be very popular among a wide range of people fed up with the ill effects of industrialized food and ready to transform their lives.

Atkins, South Beach, Zone, Weight Watchers, Nutrisystem. Fad diets abound. None of these flawed systems get at the root causes of excess body fat. While it's possible to lose some weight with fad diets, it's unlikely and rare that people keep the weight off.

The Spartan Diet is totally different. It's a life-long, comprehensive approach to food and health that combines ancient tradition with modern health research, while encouraging people to custom-tailor the diet for their specific needs and preferences.

Another difference is that the Spartan Diet is, well, Spartan. It's hardcore and uncompromising. Unlike the fad diets, it doesn't seek a middle ground between "healthy" and "easy." In fact, the Spartan Diet views "easy" as part of the problem. Modern people live soft lives, eat soft food and have themselves grown so soft they can't stand up to a hot fudge sundae. The Spartan Diet is for closet warriors ready to step out of that closet and conquer dependence on junk food, processed food and industrial food.

The Spartan Diet attacks the root causes of excess fat:

1. The industrialization of food
2. Our cultural obsession with convenience
3. Misplaced priorities governing food choices

Being overweight isn't the problem. Fat is the only most visible symptom of a larger malady that plagues Americans and, increasingly, people across the world. People are overweight or obese because they're extremely unhealthy.

Rather than simulating good health through mere weight loss, the Spartan Diet actually promotes a transformation of the body toward optimum health. Weight loss for people who are overweight naturally follows.

The Spartan Diet is aimed not at people who just want to look better or lose weight, but who also want robust health, strength, endurance and mental toughness. It's the perfect diet for Marines, soldiers, sailors and other warriors; competitive athletes; or anyone who wants to be as lean, strong, fast and full of energy as an Olympic athlete.

Why is it that so many people are so unhealthy? Is it that good information about health is scarce? Not really. Our culture excels at the broad distribution of facts about diet, health and food. Is it that our food is fattening and unhealthy? No. Healthy food is almost as readily available as junk food. Most people simply don't have the mindset or the motivation to improve and extend their own lives through healthy diet.

We can look to science for information about what's best to eat, and rely on technology (and the local farmer's market) to make the healthiest foods available to us. But for transforming ourselves into strong, healthy and motivated people, this book looks to ancient Sparta.

The Spartans ate what you might call the "original Mediterranean diet" -- not the compromised, industrialized version popular today. And these amazing people lived by a series of rules, attitudes and practices that forged every Spartan citizen into an austere, disciplined super-athlete.

The Spartan Diet is based on their foods, their attitudes and their approach to staying 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.

The Spartan Diet is 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.

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