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"I Love Low Carb: Marcie Rathbun started low-carbing in June 2001, dropped four sizes, and became a vocal proponent of the low-carb way of eating. Her website has a nice collection of recipes and a particularly good tip section: www.ilovelowcarb.com Low-Carbohydrate Food Guide: Recipes, foods, diets, stores, and cookbooks. The site motto is "Low-carbohydrate food doesn't have to be boring": www.low-carbohydrate-food-guide.com The Low-Carb Cook: Sharron Long's low-carb recipes are a huge hit on Internet bulletin boards, and she contributes regularly to CarbHealth magazine." - Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S., Living the low carb Life: Controlled Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss (Get the book.) "Living the low carb Life INTRODUCTION How to Use This Book he high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet has been the longest uncontrolled nutritional experiment in history. The results have not been good. Perhaps you've noticed. Perhaps you have been one of its victims. You're unable to lose weight, or if you have lost, it certainly hasn't been easy. You found yourself constantly fighting cravings, you were hungry a lot of the time, and you suffered with feelings of deprivation. You felt fatigued, like you were running on empty, and were still always battling the bulge, mostly unsuccessfully." - Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S., Living the low carb Life: Controlled Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"They are the best-selling authors of Protein Power (sixty-three weeks on the New York Times best-seller list) and The Protein Power Life Plan, and most recently, Staying Power: Maintaining Your low carb Weight Loss for Good and The low carb CookwoRx Cookbook. They write, coproduce, and host the PBS show low carb CookwoRx and can be reached at www.proteinpower.com. 1. Grass-fed beef, pork, lamb: Sources of good protein and quality fat, devoid of hormones, antibiotics, and toxins. 2. Cage-free chicken and eggs: Humanely produced, inexpensive, high-quality protein and cholesterol source." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

"This is a cool new site that is like the Google news of the low carb world. Any item of interest that you can imagine is posted here. (On a recent visit I learned that both Olympic gymnast Stephen McCain and rapper Eminem are both low-carb devotees!) There's also a section that reviews new low-carb foods and products, a section for recipes, celebrities in the news, the Atkins diet, and much more. Fun to visit. www.lowcarbfriends." - Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S., Living the low carb Life: Controlled Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"In my opinion, a low carb diet is the absolute best strategy for dealing with PCOS naturally. It doesn't mean that other things won't help, but rather that the first place to begin is with diet. In fact, according to many experts, one of the biggest contributors to PCOS is poor diet, especially a high intake of refined carbohydrates. Because insulin resistance is such a huge contributor to the PCOS, a diet that helps control blood sugar and insulin is the first order of business." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "Let me tell you how important this is: If you've read my other books—especially Living the low carb Life—you remember that insulin is an important hormone with multiple purposes that's made by the pancreas. Your body releases insulin when blood sugar goes up, as it does when you eat food, especially carbohydrates. Insulin's jobs include escorting excess sugar in the bloodstream to the cells where it can be burned for energy. But in at least 2 5 percent of the population, this metabolic pathway doesn't work properly." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"But amidst the reports about low carb's demise, most observers were missing the big picture. First of all, despite the naysayers, low-carb dieting in some form or another is here to stay, according to Opinion Dynamics, a market research firm that has tracked the movement since 2003. "We expect it to stabilize at between 7 to 15 percent of the population [or about 15 million to 33 million people]," says Larry Shiman, vice president of the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based, full-service market research company, which specializes in the food industry. " - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"Another one filled with great recipes is Sandra Woodruff's Secrets of Good-Carb low carb Living (Avery, 2004). MICRONUTRIENTS: VITAMINS, MINERALS, AND ANTIOXIDANTS To achieve optimum health and nutrition, you need to "eat right and take a multivitamin," as a recent headline in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine editorial put it. "The evidence suggests that people who take such supplements are healthier." Like carbohydrates, protein, and fats, vitamins and minerals are essential to good health." - Hyla Cass, M.D., Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.) "Secrets of Good-Carb low carb Living. New York, NY: Avery, 2004. Zimmerman, Marcia, M.Ed., C.N. Eat Your Colors. New York, NY: Owl Books, 2001. DVDs You: On a Diet Workout—This DVD comes from Drs. Mehmet Oz and Michael Roizen, authors of the terrific books You: The Owner's Manual (New York, NY: Collins, 2005) and You: On a Diet (New York, NY: Free Press, 2006); it's a straightforward, no-frills, comprehensive workout that you can do at home in your socks in twenty minutes." - Hyla Cass, M.D., Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"They write, coproduce, and host the PBS show low carb CookwoRx and can be reached at www.proteinpower.com. 1. Grass-fed beef, pork, lamb: Sources of good protein and quality fat, devoid of hormones, antibiotics, and toxins. 2. Cage-free chicken and eggs: Humanely produced, inexpensive, high-quality protein and cholesterol source. (note from JB: This is not a misprint. Cholesterol from the diet helps regulate the production of cholesterol in the body; if you don't get it from the diet, you will make it. And cholesterol is the parent molecule of all sorts of important hormones.) 3." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.) "Then, when low carb came into vogue and consumers began to be (rightly) concerned with controlling their blood sugar, potatoes became "vegetable non grata" at the dinner table, because they raise your blood sugar quickly, producing a lot of the fat-storing hormone insulin. That's why regular old white potatoes didn't make my list of the world's healthiest foods. I just don't think they have enough nutritional wallop to counterbalance their effect on blood sugar. By the time it gets to your stomach, the body sees white potatoes as just a big lump of sugar." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

"Although all low-carb diets differ in certain respects, all are based on the fact that food has a profound effect on hormones, including the fat-storage and fat-release hormones," explains Living the low carb Life author Dr. Jonny Bowden. "The foundation of the low-carbohydrate movement has been the theory that controlling hormones by what foods you eat is at least as important for weight loss as calories are," adds Dr. Bowden, noting that regulating insulin and controlling blood sugar levels are central to the theory of all carb-watching diets. But Dr." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) "Living the low carb Life and The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth. "Any time you add different foods together, you get another response that would be different from the glycemic load or glycemic index of a food by itself," Dr. Bowden explains. "The glycemic impact of any meal is a product of the interaction of the different macronutrients—carbs, fats, and protein, and, of course, fiber. Usually the glycemic index alone is not a good way to choose foods. I like the glycemic load, but it's still not perfect, because it still only talks about foods in isolation." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"How many times have you wondered if the low carb diet is for you? How about the low fat diet? Do you know which one is better? OThe heath and fitness marketers have made it so difficult to make any sense of what we should eat and how we should move that we're completely lost. It's not really in the interest of the fitness and diet product marketers?the ones that sell you books, magazines, products, and videos—to give you what you need to get into shape because then they'll have nothing to sell and nothing to promote." - Kevin Gianni and Annmarie Colameo, The Busy Person's Fitness Solution (Get the book.)

"Chocolate—Facts and Fiction The recent desperate attempt of the food industry to boost sluggish sales of their products, after the dampening effects of the low carb craze, has caused it to heavily invest in serious "scientific" research to prove that their unhealthy products are not just safe, but even good for you. Although hard to believe, chocolate is now being pushed as a health food. Add chocolate to your healthy diet, and your heart health will improve. At least, this is what they are now trying to make you believe." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "Shortly thereafter, nutritionists considered them good for slimming, and the latest low carb craze dismisses them as junk food. Torn between various health doctrines, we look for perfect answers to our problems. In the end, when your body is exhausted because of trying to adjust to one diet after another, you may begin to realize that your body's requirements are totally unique and that they undergo constant changes, often from one day to the next." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Another one filled with great recipes is Sandra Woodruff's Secrets of Good-Carb low carb Living (Avery, 2004). MICRONUTRIENTS: VITAMINS, MINERALS, AND ANTIOXIDANTS To achieve optimum health and nutrition, you need to "eat right and take a multivitamin," as a recent headline in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine editorial put it. "The evidence suggests that people who take such supplements are healthier." Like carbohydrates, protein, and fats, vitamins and minerals are essential to good health." - Hyla Cass, Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.) "Secrets of Good-Carb low carb Living. New York, NY: Avery, 2004. Zimmerman, Marcia, M.Ed., C.N. Eat Your Colors. New York, NY: Owl Books, 2001. DVDs You: On a Diet Workout—This DVD comes from Drs. Mehmet Oz and Michael Roizen, authors of the terrific books You: The Owner's Manual (New York, NY: Collins, 2005) and You: On a Diet (New York, NY: Free Press, 2006); it's a straightforward, no-frills, comprehensive workout that you can do at home in your socks in twenty minutes." - Hyla Cass, Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"The Carb Myth: Eating low carb or no carb will make you thin 5. The Sumo Wrestler Myth: Skipping meals helps you lose weight 6. The French Paradox Myth:The French are thin because they drink wine and eat butter 7. The Protector Myth: Government food policies and food industry regulations protect our health We cause trouble for ourselves by believing these myths. Understanding how they contribute to weight gain will free you from an endless series of habits and beliefs that prevent success in achieving your ideal weight and optimal health." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.) "CHAPTER 4 THE CARB MYTH: Eating low carb or No Carb Will Make You Thin Clearing Up the Carb Confusion Jonathan, a 36-year-old insurance salesman, thought he had reached Shangri-La when he heard about a dream diet. Although he did have to give up carbs and bread, he could feast on eggs and sausage, ribs, and a big T-bone steak, put heavy cream in his coffee, and not feel guilty. He could eat as much as he wanted and lose weight—and he did lose weight, about 20pounds initially. Though suffering from severe constipation, hemorrhoids, and bad breath, he continued on." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"But I've seen surimi imitation crab labeled as "Seafood for the low carb lifestyle . . . high in omega 3, less than 3 g [grams] net carbs . . . imitation crab meat." All seafood is low in carbohydrates, but surimi products often have added sugars, and you cannot easily convince me that added omega-3S will bring surimi to the nutritional level of real fish. I am not surprised to learn that only about 10 percent of U.S." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"The legacy of the trend is that for many dieters, low carb still plays a substantial role." Whether or not carb-restricted diets work (and upwards of 23 studies indicate they do, at least over the short term), the trend has had far-reaching implications. Before he died in 2003, Robert C. Atkins, M.D., was one of the more outspoken physicians to alert the public to the dangers of inferior, fiber-stripped carbohydrates and sugars. Although the late diet doctor is, of course, best known for launching his much-criticized or much-lauded (depending upon with whom you're talking) low-carb diet, Dr." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"SOURCE: low carb mania: Has soy found another wave to ride? www.soyatech.com. Posted 5/21/2004. part five HEAVY METALS MANGANESE TOXICITY ADD-ing it up and cholesterol. Its name comes from the Greek word for "magic," and clinical nutritionists sometimes see magical results when giving it to manganese-deficient patients suffering from diabetes, heart disease, bone problems, joint disease or neurological disorders. Scientists also refer to manganese as the "maternal mineral" because mothers who are manganese deficient are more likely to neglect their young." - Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN, The Whole Soy Story: The dark side of America's favorite health food (Get the book.)

"High protein, low carb . . . they're concepts that have dominated nutrition discussions in recent years. What's the truth? First, a very brief chemistry lesson: much of our body, including muscles, organs, skin, hair, and enzymes, is made primarily of protein. Protein is in every cell and is necessary for life. Protein, in turn, is composed of amino acids. Some amino acids are manufactured by the body. Nine others called essential amino acids must come from the foods we eat." - Steven G. Pratt, M.D. and Kathy Matthews, SuperFoods Rx: Fourteen Foods That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

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