The Tortoise Diet is designed to help overweight FAMILIES work together as a team to create a lifestyle brimming with health, energy and enjoyment. Perhaps Dad would feel better, stop snoring, and have more energy by losing a few pounds. Mom will once again look great in her favorite pair of jeans. Your teenager will have a clearer complexion, and become better athlete by eating healthier foods. Your younger kids may be prevented from ever having to battle weight difficulties, if they learn early in life how to live a healthy lifestyle.

There are pressures on each of us to eat, eat, and eat some more! We are barraged at every turn by ads for convenience and packaged foods. We see them everywhere; on TV, in magazines, on billboards, in vending machines, in school cafeterias, and even on movie theater screens. It’s easy to get lured into the habit of eating these fattening convenience foods, and as a society we’ve fallen for it. It’s big business...and it's making us all big! Unfortunately, we just can’t eat the way the marketing wizards tell us to, and at the same time limit our exercise to moving the television remote or the computer mouse, and still expect to be healthy.