Newtopia Frequently Asked Questions

Newtopia Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is a genetic test? What can I expect from my genetic test results?
   • Newtopia’s personal genetic test – Newtopia Genetics – is a saliva test that can be used to extract your DNA to analyze genes specifically connected to weight and lifestyle management. The test is safe, completely painless and easy to take. All results are completely private and strictly confidential - shared only with you.
     
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     Your genetic results will provide you with an indication of whether you have a genetic predisposition toward weight gain or unhealthy living as well as specific recommendations in nutrition + exercise + behaviour management and natural health products that would be most effective to achieve your goals based on your genetic profile. You have an opportunity to review these results with a Newtopia Coach to fully understand the implications for your lifestyle and the plan options available for you at Newtopia to put these recommendations into action.


2. When do I complete a NEWLife Assessment? What can I expect from my NEWLife assessment results?
   • Upon signing up for a NEWLife Plan and submitting your genetic sample at your physicians office, you will be emailed a link to complete your NEWLife Assessment. Your NEWLife Assessment is securely and confidentially stored on Newtopia’s servers in full compliance with our Privacy Policy. Our expert team interprets your answers and provides a NEWLife Plan of what we have learned about you and some recommendations for living a healthy balanced lifestyle. NEWLife Assessments and NEWLife Plans are for educational purposes only.


3. How much does a Newtopia program cost? Is it expensive?
   • Newtopia's personalized products, online personal coaching, wireless monitoring devices or NEWLife Plan recommendations are based on your NEWLife Assessment and Newtopia Genetics results in order to identify the perfect plan for you for long term weight loss and healthy living. The cost of a Newtopia products depend on your weight loss or healthy living goals, type of plan chosen and individual situation. Our complete program costs work out to roughly $7 per day. We’ve found that most Newtopia clients actually save this amount by eliminating unhealthy food options, unused gym memberships or other paid professional services. You'll be able to lose weight and live healthy forever because we provide you with the ideal personalized nutrition + exercise + behaviour management plan supported by your very own personal coach – available live online.
     
     Newtopia’s programs and products are evidence and guideline based, designed by a team of leading experts in nutrition, exercise, behaviour management, medicine, pharmacology and genetics. There are no gimmicks – just long lasting results
     
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4. What is your track record? How do I know this method will work when I have failed on so many other diet or exercise programs?
   • Newtopia has been successfully offering personalized solutions for long term weight loss and healthy living to clients for over 2 years. In that time we have worked with hundreds of individuals across North America opening their eyes to the importance of a complete and personalized lifestyle change to achieve long term results.
     
     Newtopia’s approach is expert and evidence based, inspired by the gold standard integrative practices of the world’s best medical and wellness institutions as well as North American medical and federal guidelines. By following these guidelines and the information about you gathered in our lifestyle assessement and breakthrough genetic test, our team of leading experts are confident that you will be able to lose weight and keep it off forever.
     
     In over 2 years we have not had one Newtopia client contact us to report that they have re-gained the weight (or more) that they lost at Newtopia.


5. What is your Guarantee? Can I really get my money back?
   • We offer a guarantee of satisfaction whereby clients who follow all of their plan and product recommendations and do not achieve their goal weight are entitled to a 100% refund on personal coaching fees


6. How much weight can I expect to lose on a Newtopia lifestyle plan?
   • Newtopians, on average, lose up to two pounds per week. However, everyone is different and results may vary based on a number of factors, including an individual's personal weight history, body composition, level of physical activity, age and motivation.


7. Do I need to buy special foods while on a Newtopia program?
   • No. Newtopia does not sell pre-packaged meals. All of the foods recommended as part of Newtopia’s nutrition plan are store bought, available at any grocery store or farmers market. All Newtopia programs have a balanced, portion-controlled food plan, inspired by Canada’s Food Guide, containing all food groups (vegetables, fruits, meat, dairy, etc.).
     
     Newtopia does not advocate ‘dieting’ and there are no food groups that you are not allowed to eat. The key to a sustainable lifestyle program is a nutrition plan that you can maintain forever.


8. Can I eat out at restaurants while on a Newtopia program?
   • Yes. Preparing your own food is the best option, but we understand that sometimes you want to go out and enjoy yourself. Your Newtopia Coach will work with you to identify the most appropriate menu choices to ensure that you can maintain your business and social life.


9. Do I have to exercise? What sort of exercise program is involved?
   • Newtopia programs combine the right personalized nutrition + exercise + behavioural well-being for you to lose weight and live healthy forever – that is the NEW in Newtopia!
     
     Being active is an important component of weight loss healthy living and your NEWLife Plan will incorporate a personalized activity plan incorporating the right amount of cardio, strength and flexibility activities. Your activity plan can be done at home or at a gym and there is no special or additional equipment required. Our exercise physiologist designs your activity plan taking into consideration your current level of activity and experience (beginner, intermediate and advanced) and builds from there with realistic daily goals that we can track and monitor using a wireless activity monitor called a NewtopiaPed.
     
     Our goal is to find the best set of activities for you in every season to make you feel great while you are losing weight and healthy living.


10. What is behavioral well-being?
    • Behavioral well-being refers to your state of mind, ability to manage stress, relationships and work-life balance. It is rooted in your personality and the way that you deal with the good and bad things that life throws at you. It is also one of the key factors for long term weight loss and healthy living success that is overlooked by almost all of the other commercial weight loss programs.


11. What are the Newtopia natural supplements for? How can I be sure they are safe?
    • Newtopia’s natural supplements are a synergistic mix of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, herbs and other nutritional natural health products, using the finest ingredients and most rigorous manufacturing practices and procedures. They have been designed to complement your genetic testing and NEWLife Assessment results. ??Newtopia’s natural supplements are designed by our team of leading experts and are backed by leading scientific research. Although weight reduction research is often conflicting, we have designed our products based on the most reliable evidence of efficacy in full compliance with the FDA. As new research is conducted, Newtopia will update its products to reflect the best scientific evidence available.


12. Do any of your products contain ephedrine?
    • No.


13. Do I need to continue taking natural health products after I have lost weight to keep it off forever?
    • Your long term weight loss or healthy living success is not dependent on you continuing to take Newtopia’s supplements. Rather, it is based on you continuing to balance the right lifestyle choices combining nutrition, exercise and behavior management on a daily basis.
      
      Our natural health products have been designed to complement your NEWLife Plan created from your genetic test and NEWLife Assessment results.


14. What are Newtopia's wireless monitoring products?
    • Newtopia's wireless products include a NewtopiaPED, a Newtopia Link and a Newtopia Scale. Each of these is provided to you upon sign up of an online program. The NewtopiaPED is a small round device than can easily clip onto your shoe. While on your shoe it can track the number of steps taken, calories burned, duration of activity and distance covered. All of this information can then be wirelessly transferred and recorded onto your personalize Newtopia portal page through the Newtopia Link. The Newtopia Link collects the information once you have downloaded the appropriate software. The software is specific for either MAC or PC computers and can be accessed within your portal. The scale works similarly to the NewtopiaPED. As soon as you step onto the scale, your weight is transferred to your Newtopia portal page wirelessly by means of the Newtopia Link. This information allows your coach to see the progress with your weight and activity and provide recommendations or that extra motivation to get you moving even when not in a coaching session.


15. What is online coaching?
    • Online coaching is live personal coaching that just so happens to be conducted online! Coach and client meet in a video conference live in real time using Skype. In the video conference both coach and client can see and hear each other and a share a screen, so together they can follow progress, challenges and discuss future goals and lessons. A webcam is required for online coaching. If your desktop monitor or laptop computer does not include a webcam, you can purchase a Newtopia Webcam from Newtopia.


16. What is personality matching?
    • Personality matching is done between client and coach. In order for us to assure that you are going to get the best results from your Newtopia plan, we have to pair you with the best Newtopia coach who’s personality traits best resemble your own. We do this by assessing the personality of each Newtopia Coach and matching it to the certain key areas of information about your personality that we acquire from your NEWLife Assessment.


17. I have Diabetes. Can Newtopia help me?
    • Yes. The Newtopia program may help people with type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is a dysregulation in the body’s ability to process glucose (sugar). A good treatment plan for type 2 diabetes should involve dietary changes, exercise, keeping carbohydrate cravings in check and natural health products. The natural health products used during the Newtopia program may help lower blood sugar and improve insulin sensitivity.