Define a “good” diet, please. How can we judge if it’s a good diet if we don’t know what your dietary goals are!
I took a quick look at the first Google hit for the diet name, which seems to be the official website. Already I’m skeptical due to this claim:
Give Yourself a Serotonin Boost: 30–60 minutes before your next meal, munch on a serotonin soothing snack: pretzels, cheerios, popcorn, or cherry licorice bites. Notice how it takes the edge off your appetite and energizes you. By harnessing the power of serotonin, THE SEROTONIN POWER DIET allows you to eat less, lose weight and feel good about yourself again.
Guess what – snack on ANYTHING 30–60 minutes before a meal and it’ll take the edge off your appetite! As well, it attempts to correlate this single event (snacking and feeling more full before eating) with having the results of: “eat less, lose weight, and feel good about yourself again.” Which I find extremely hard to believe. Thus my conclusion is that, like most diets, its underlying premise may or may not actually work (more than likely not, and more than likely the actual diet itself is a small portion in a grander scheme of eating better and exercising, yet the book tries to take credit for those two things as well), and it is selling you false hopes. Please take a look through the archives where we have discussed other diets in the past for good advice about how to approach having a healthy diet and living a healthy lifestyle in order to maintain a healthy weight.