My daughter's 1st grade teacher let me know she would always be a leader and not a follower and this still holds true 24-years later. I have also remained great friends with the awesome lady providing this advice, and I think about it often and how it applies to health and fitness. We all need to be leaders and not followers when it comes to our nutrition , exercise, sleep and everything related to improving the quality of our health. I am a skeptic when it comes to the "too good to be true" fitness miracles regardless of who is sharing the information. I refuse to follow into the beliefs of others just because they heard it was the next best thing to sliced bread and how they have lost 20lbs in 5 days, or some crazy thing like that. I feel the same way about exercise programs and will not trend in with the crowd because it has been advertised as the coolest "big hit" workout ever. What does impress me is solid research and leading myself with what works ...