Communication is the cornerstone of all human culture. Social interaction amongst individuals and between groups has been proven to not only increase mental health, but general well-being as well. This same phenomenon translates over to weight loss. People who have the goal to lose weight and communicate with others who are trying to do the same will end up being far more successful in the long run. This is because communicating with others while dieting is a powerful motivator and a great source of information.

This is why GenoVive created the Gen-V community, an online diet forum where people on our DNA diet can come together and discuss their successes, failures and aspirations. It’s a great place for people to share ideas about staying motivated, what works and what doesn’t work, and how to get through the inevitable difficulties that come about on any diet. It’s also a great place for people to come and hold each other accountable. After all, accountability is one of the most important factors for staying successful on any type of program.

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Technology has made our modern lives better in a lot of ways, but in a way it has made things worse. When it comes to the diet world, technology has proven to be both an asset and a detriment. Technology allows us to create vast amounts of food and transport it lots of places, but that makes the ability to over eat much easier. Some of us are especially affected by this, as our bodies tell us to over consume even when there is really no need to. Thankfully, technology has also brought us many tools to help fight our tendencies to gain excess weight.

One of the primary ways that technology has helped the dieting world is through the mapping of the human genome. Thanks to discoveries in molecular biology, we now know more than ever the role that genes play in the processing of food we eat. We also know that individuals metabolize food in different ways. What this means for weight loss and weight management is staggering; because a one size fits all solution to losing weight is no longer viable.

GenoVive is taking advantage of this knowledge in order to construct a diet that is catered to the unique genetic code we all have. Customization is the basis for this comprehensive solution including a home delivered meal program, nutritional supplements and an exercise program. These aspects of the DNA diet will be constructed to help maximize weight loss according to research done in the field of nutrigenomics. Even after you have lost the weight and transition out of the full meal program, you can use the knowledge you have gained about your genetics to maintain a healthy weight and body.

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Dieting is one of those things for people that can be a lifelong problem. This is because eating is an everyday part of life, and thus requires an everyday solution. It is not a problem that can just be ignored most of the time, and only to be caught up with at a later date. Changing eating habits and getting into an exercise routine requires dedication and enough motivation to want to succeed. Without those things, losing weight becomes exponentially more difficult.

Part of the problem for many people is that they simply don’t know what direction to go in. The amount of weight loss foods in grocery stores these days is staggering. They all make fantastic claims like “all natural, zero fat and low carb,” but without context, none of these things mean anything. It’s possible for someone to eat nothing but low fat products in the store and gain weight because of the excess sugar. Losing weight requires more planning than just shopping for products making certain claims.

DNA diets like the one offered by GenoVive try to solve this issue by providing a comprehensive diet plan that includes home delivered meals and a custom exercise program that works with your level of fitness. This plan will provide the focus on a diet that a person needs so that they can focus on staying motivated rather than trying to figure out what does and doesn’t work. This plan will not only work to lose weight, but can be used as a tool far into the future for maintaining a healthy weight and positive eating habits.

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The modern life is a busy one, fully of phone calls, video conferences, driving to and from appointments, meetings, social gatherings, sleep, eat quick meals and all the other ways we’ve adapted to the conditions of modern life. With all of these things going on, it may seem difficult to create time in your schedule for exercise. But just like with most things, when there is a will there is a way. You’ll have to decide whether or not exercise is important enough to push some of the other things out of the way, and if your goal is to lose weight and get healthy, it should be important enough.

The good news is that the GenoVive custom exercise program does not need to take up that much of your time, only up to an hour a day. Most of the exercises can be done in the comfort of your own home by walking in your neighborhood or adapted for use at your gym. Not only that, but they are customized to work at your own level of fitness and designed to teach you about the right intensity of exercise that works best for you. If you have concerns about your ability to do a particular exercise, you should skip it or start slowly with other exercises as you build strength. And always speak with your physician first before starting a new exercise routine.

If you still think that you don’t have the time in your schedule to exercise, it’s time to evaluate the time you spend more carefully. Write down everything that you do in a day on a daily planner or spreadsheet. Evaluate each item and give it a level of importance. Obviously items like sleep, eating, and working are essential, but there are probably some things on there that you simply can do without. Maybe cut out that daily trip to the coffee shop. Or instead of watching your favorite show on the couch, watch it while walking on the treadmill.

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The holidays are used as a major excuse for people to eat more than they normally would and cheat on their weight loss plans. But now that the holidays are over, the cheating is over, right? Not quite, because when it comes to indulging an appetite, some of us will use any excuse possible to over eat and cheat on our DNA diet. Whether it is positive things like birthdays, promotions, graduations, parties or negative events we will sometimes use any excuse we can muster to eat high calorie food and not pay attention to how many calories we are putting into our bodies.

Chastising ourselves for basic human desire, however, is not a good way to go about improving our diet success. The key to battling the cravings we get for “special occasions” is to recognize why we get these cravings and the best way to satisfy them without making things worse.  The first step is to recognize that using special occasion excuses to over eat is an emotional issue. Many of us who are overweight have learned to use food to subdue our erratic emotional states. Recognizing the times when we are doing this is essential to being able to stop it.

A DNA diet provides the structure and information to be able to make an informed decision while dieting rather than an emotional one. This is part of the reasoning behind a home delivered meal program. If we have ready to go healthy food already planned out for a meal, we are way less likely to go outside of the plan and overeat than if we just a generic goal of eating healthy. The GenoVive home delivered meal program makes it easier for us to substitute in things like socializing, hobbies and interests to satisfy our emotional states rather than over eating.

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The human body is probably the most complex machine on the planet earth, and like any other machine, it requires energy. But unlike mechanical machines, humans are capable of consuming far more energy than what they actually need. The way the body stores this excess energy is through fat deposits for later use. This was a very useful feature before food was abundant, but now that our food supply is secure in the western world, these fat deposits never go away and just build over time.

Our DNA helps determine how the nutrients we eat turn into energy in our bodies. Each individual can have different challenges in their metabolism of carbohydrates, fats and proteins. You probably recognize this in people who can eat pretty much whatever they want but never gain any weight. Other people seem to have the opposite problem, where seemingly every calorie they eat turns into fat cells on their thighs and stomach.

DNA diets work because they account for these variances in our metabolism. This happens when you first join GenoVive and your DNA is analyzed by our lab. GenoVive puts together your gender, age, height and weight plus your individual genetic profile to determine what is going to work best for you on a diet. You’ll quickly find that your diet is quite different than whatever one size fits all programs you’ve seen before. That’s because the diet has been customized just for you.  You’ll see and feel the difference with GenoVive.

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For many people on a diet, the goal of losing weight is not just about reaching a certain number, but reaching that number by a certain time. Whether it’s for a school reunion, the beach days of summer, or for a wedding day, many of us use a big event in our lives as a powerful motivator for sticking to a diet. It’s important to realize, however, how realistic our date oriented goals are. This is not to discourage someone from attempting to get healthier by a certain date, but to keep them from being disappointed if they don’t reach a nearly physically impossible goal.

Realistic estimations of how much people can lose during a certain amount of time fluctuate from person to person and on diet to diet. People can lose anywhere from 4 pounds to half a pound in any given week, depending on how much someone needs to lose and how intensely they are dieting. While everyone wants to lose as much as possible and in the shortest amount of time, losing weight too quickly can be unhealthy. A managed diet program like our DNA diet can help you lose weight at a healthy rate that will help you reach your timed goal with far more effectiveness.

A DNA diet is able to do this because the home delivered meal program you get is based on your unique genetic code. Your DNA plays an important role in your metabolism. GenoVive knows just the right amount of calories you need and the correct macronutrient balance for you to effectively lose weight using all-natural foods. They also create a customized exercise program for you that will help you lose weight even faster. People who go on diets on their own often don’t know exactly what will help them lose weight, but with GenoVive, a scientific approach is used to maximize weight loss so that you look great by the day of your big event.

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Even though many people are not aware of it, humans have lots of tiny life forms living inside them that assist with the everyday functioning of the human body. These life forms are bacteria that live in the digestive system and they are known as probiotics. They help with the digestion of essential nutrients and without them our bodies would not be able to process much of the food we eat today. Humans are not the only animals with these probiotics. Cows can eat grass because of them and pandas are able to digest bamboo because of the probiotics in their systems.

Probiotics are highly beneficial to our health, so it’s important that we support their growth, which is where prebiotics come in. Prebiotics are non-digestible substances in foods that benefit the growth of the probiotics. The most popular form of prebiotics is called inulin, which is an insoluble fiber contained in lots of fruits, vegetables, herbs, whole grains and wheat.  Prebiotics have the greatest effect when they are ingested with the presence of soluble fibers that the body does digest, meaning they are best taken in the presence of food.

The GenoVive DNA Diet knows how important prebiotics are to people who are trying to burn fat and lose weight. That is why prebiotics are contained in many of the home delivered meals including:  Frappes, pasta, and several snack bars such as the Peanut Butter Cookie Bar, Chocolate Chip Cookie Bar, Double Chocolate Brownie Bar, Cherry Cashew Bar, Cocoa Coconut Bar and Cranberry Apple Nut Bar. Eating these items from the program will enable your digestive system to function better and can even decrease the body’s ability to create certain kinds of fats.

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The word natural is thrown all over the place when it comes to food products, but not all foods labeled as being natural are created equally.  You may have seen some of these items in the super market. The label says natural but when you look at the ingredient list you see a bunch of chemicals and additives that you know are anything but natural. So why do food companies mislead customers into thinking their foods are all-natural when they aren’t? One reason is because they can. Two is because most customers know that all-natural foods are better for them so they will more likely buy their product.

Before going ahead and showing how GenoVive’s home delivered meals are truly all natural, we’d like to describe what natural actually means.  When it comes to food, natural should mean that the ingredients should come directly from nature with as little processing as possible. Food should contain whole grains, fruits and vegetables that are grown with few if any chemicals. The meat in your food should also be all natural, meaning that the animals grown for meat should not be treated with hormones and antibiotics.

The meals in GenoVive’s DNA diet are focused on being all-natural and healthy. Carbohydrate sources come from fruits, vegetables and whole grains that are rich in prebiotics that help stimulate a healthy and active digestive system. Our meals made with meat come from animals that are not treated with hormones and antibiotics. The impact these kinds of natural foods have on a diet are enormous, as the body reacts to natural foods much better than it does to foods laced with hormones and chemicals. A DNA diet is not just about losing weight, but keeping your body in a healthy condition with foods it was evolved to eat straight from nature.

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We live in a rather difficult time for eating healthy. Food advertising is one of the biggest industries on the planet. Ads for unhealthy food are all over television, radio, magazines and the internet. Nearly every food company out there is trying to sell you their greasy burgers or high calories starches. The presence of this advertising can feel overwhelming at times. Every time you walk in a store, turn on the television or even drive to work, you are likely to be barraged by a constant presence of unhealthy food advertising.

Food advertising works by appealing to the very ideals and conditions that their foods will ultimately sabotage. This includes having thin models eating cheeseburgers, surfers and athletes shoveling down French fries and happy groups of friends and lovers eating high sugar candy. The advertising tries to build psychological connections between emotional pleasure and eating high calorie products. It’s no surprise why so many of us have become emotional eaters. Half the battle of combating this advertising is to know that they are doing it in the first place.

Ignoring the messaging of major food companies is a psychological battle that starts with knowledge. Knowing the kind of foods you should be eating and in what proportions will help you realize the dangers of mass marketed foods and provide you with the motivation to avoid them. Joining a home delivered meal program like the one offered through GenoVive’s DNA diet will help you stick to meals that will help you lose weight rather than navigate the minefield of commercial food products.