You’ve decarbed your holiday dinner: Fauxtatoes, grain-free dressing, sugar-free cheesecake with a nut crust. But without flour or cornstarch, how do you make gravy? Dana Carpender teaches how in just a few easy steps.
Read More »Celebrate With Low-Carb Christmas Cookies!
Low-Carb Christmas Cookies! You can have your candy canes, your eggnog, your figgy pudding–As far back as Dana can remember, the best Christmas delicacy has been cookies. She helps us carry on that tradition with some healthier alternatives to the high-carb holiday fare.
Read More »A Low Carb Feast To Be Thankful For
Have you decided that you want to stay grain- and sugar-free, even at Thanksgiving dinner? Dana Carpender has 3 recipes for a delicious and traditional low carb Thanksgiving Feast.
Read More »Thanksgiving Damage Control or You Have to Plan!
If you’ve made the decision to indulge in traditional high carb foods at Thanksgiving, Dana shows you how to limit the damage.
Read More »Dana’s Carpender’s Low Carb Anniversary – The 33% Report
I dropped the carbs from my diet the day after Labor Day 1995. I would have started a few days earlier, but I invited a bunch of people over for a Labor Day cookout, and already started making the food. So I consider the Tuesday after Labor Day my LowCarbiversary. It's been 18 years I've been eating this way, and since I'm 54 – 55 in October – that means I've been low carb for exactly one third of my life - that's 33%.
Read More »Somatopsychic Health & Wellness: It’s All In Your Head
Somatopsychic Health & Wellness: "It's all in your head." In mid-20th-century America this was a common diagnosis. While it is now widely excepted that stress plays a part in illness, the notion of purely psychogenic disease has fallen out of favor.
Read More »Interview with Jimmy Moore and Dr. Eric Westman about Cholesterol Clarity
Interview with Jimmy Moore and Dr. Eric Westman about Cholesterol Clarity. Dana Carpender asks the authors why they wrote the book and where all the misinformation came from that led us to this state.
Read More »Book Review: Peace, Love, and Low Carb
What's good about the cookbook Peace, Love, and Low Carb by Kyndra Holley? First of all, the recipes are great. Kyndra has come up with a wide and imaginative array of dishes so it's hard to decide what to try first.
Read More »Dana’s Kitchen: Tomatoes
Tomatoes are not carb-free, indeed, I consider them a "borderline" vegetable. How better to spend my daily carb allowance?
Read More »Recap of the 2013 Annual Low Carb Cruise
Recap of the 6th Annual Low Carb Cruise by Dana Carpender. 150 low carbers enjoyed the sun and fun of the Caribbean.
Read More »Does Red Meat Cause Diabetes?
Does Red Meat Cause Diabetes? Of course you heard, it was trumpeted all over the media. Are we all really going to go blind and lose our feet?
Read More »Endothelial Function and Low Carb Dieting
Endothelial Function and Low Carb Dieting by Dana Carpender. Learn why a leading cardiovascular surgeon quit his practice to spread the word that heart disease has nothing to do with cholesterol – and what the true killer is. Plus some interesting secrets Dana uncovered along the way.
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