In her first column for CarbSmart, Tara Grant, Primal Girl, explores her history with sugar addiction and how after finding the right doctor to diagnose and treat her Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS), she started her journey to better health. This journey includes the steps she took to the low carb lifestyle and eventually to refining it the Paleo/Primal way.
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Dr. Fung reveals in this paradigm-shifting book, that type 2 diabetes is reversible. The only way to treat type 2 diabetes effectively, he argues, is proper dieting and intermittent fasting—not medication.
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End Your Carb Confusion is the GPS you need to help you navigate your way from frustrated and disappointed to empowered and successful. Find the level of carbohydrate intake that’s right for you now, and then learn how to switch gears to a higher- or lower-carb diet when the time is right.
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The Low Carb Dietitian's Guide to Health and Beauty by Franziska Spritzler, RD, CDE. Guidance for creating a long-term low-carbohydrate way of eating customized to your own unique system, preferences, and lifestyle.
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Everything you wanted to know about Ketosis and the Ketogenic diet by the top experts in nutrition and science. Jimmy Moore and Dr. Eric Westman have been on a mission to help us understand what the low carb lifestyle means to our health.
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We’ve put together this list of 21 resources to help, encourage, and support you with your low carb lifestyle resolution to be healthier in the new year.
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Annie Thomas’ success toward a healthier, happier, and more productive life is an inspiration to all those following or considering a low carb lifestyle.
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Trying to jump-start your low-carb weight loss? Jacqueline Eberstein discusses the many benefits of consuming an induction level of carbohydrates and utilizing fat for fuel.
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As a child who was chubby, had major food cravings, ADD, OCD, and PCOS, Misty Humphrey know too well the connection between food, behavior, and poor health. In this article, Misty shows us how to create special, fun, and healthy holiday traditions with our kids.
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Nutrition-related diseases are common in our fertility practice. Patients with these issues are actually experiencing sub-fertility, however, and they generally have excellent fertility potential. Evidence- and experience-based recommendations are improving and we now have a growing experience of effective treatments. In addition, we may expect very exciting new research results in the next few years with regard to the role of gut flora and obesity, for example. Carbohydrate restriction has become a first-line, mainstream treatment in many fertility and medical clinics. Resistance to these measures appears to be waning as the benefits of these interventions become more and more obvious.
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Many things happened when I switched from a low carb approach to a Primal lifestyle, but perhaps the biggest change was my attitude. I started questioning things. I no longer ate something simply because it was low carb; I now needed to know everything that was in my food, where it came from, and how it was made. Since a Primal diet didn’t allow for legumes, grains or processed foods, a lot of the foods I had eaten in the past – Atkins bars, low carb tortillas, and tofu to name a few – were off the list.
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My first few days of low carb eating were incredibly easy. I found that I wasn’t as hungry as I used to be and I had more energy. I was propelled by adrenaline – excited to finally be trying something I was sure was going to work. In Tara Grant's Journey to Low Carb Part 2, like many of us, she learned she had to commit and recommit to Low Carb Eating.
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