Fad Diet Dangers - Why Fad Diets Are Bad

Fad Diet Dangers Include More than Just Failing to Lose Weight

It seems like fad diets and fad diet dangers are everywhere.  Promoted on late night infomercials, multi-level marketing schemes, internet advertising and elsewhere, fad diet dangers start with the promise of easy miracle solutions to lose weight.  Why fad diets are bad is because they do not address the problems that caused you to gain weight in the first place. If you don't learn about sustainable diet strategies, the right types of exercise, and how to build an effective support system, you will quickly gain the weight back you lost, and perhaps more, when you return to old lifestyle habits.  The fad diet dangers include not only regaining the weight, but an emotional blow to your self-image from trying - and failing - to improve health or losing weight.

Fad Diet Dangers - Over-Reliance on Will Power

Most importantly, fad diets are bad because they don’t work in the real world.  These fad diet dangers include not properly arming you to succeed in the long term.  They pit your will power against huge forces of your genes and your calorically excessive environment – and willpower alone is no match.  That is why most diets fail so miserably.

Beware of fad diet dangers.  Many fad diets promise no need for exercise, or quick and easy weight loss.  If a fad diet sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Gene Smart is Not a Fad Diet

The principles in The Gene Smart Anti Inflammatory Diet & Exercise Program, are designed to work with our genes, especially our inflammatory genes, to bring our bodies back under our control. Gene Smart is not a fad diet. It’s worth noting that more than 90 percent of our Gene Smart study participants stayed on the program until the very end, a rate of success that is three times higher or more than typical commercial weight loss programs. Perhaps more impressively, 74 percent of this group either maintained their weight loss or continued to lose (by following the program) a full 10 weeks after we concluded our study, the last time we measured results. One participant has lost over a hundred pounds! This suggests to us that for a majority of people, Gene Smart can be the key to long-term success.

The Living Abundantly Program

Making healthy behavior changes with the support of a like minded community has been shown to dramatically increase the long-term success of those changes.  The Living Abundantly Program empowers whole health - body, mind, spirit and community - by integrating our Gene Smart Diet & Exercise Principles together with time honored spiritual and self discovery practices.  Living Abundantly programs are hosted by churches and other community organizations and led by a Gene Smart Certified Coach.