Dana Carpender
September 9, 2024
Blood Pressure, Health, Nutritional Ketosis, Podcast Episodes, Sodium, Video
Salt is an essential nutrient - our body needs sodium. The take-home message here is that despite the demonizing of sodium, it is an essential nutrient; without it we die. Low carbohydrate diets both normalize the body's ability to excrete excess sodium and dramatically reduce our intake of processed foods, baked goods, chips, and other "snack foods," the biggest sources of sodium in the modern American diet. So pay attention. Be aware, too, that having elevated blood pressure does not necessarily mean you need a low sodium diet.
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Dana Carpender
July 14, 2022
Dietary Fat, Diets & Dieting, Ketogenic Diet, Ketone Production, Nutritional Ketosis
What is a keto diet? “Keto” has been the diet buzzword for the past five years or so, and with good reason – a ketogenic diet delivers. Most people who “go keto” lose weight while experiencing increased energy and reduced hunger.
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Dana Carpender
March 16, 2022
Fat Fast, Interviews, Ketogenic Diet, Ketone Production, Nutritional Ketosis, Research & Science
Why is Jacqueline Eberstein, RN the first Three-Question Interview? Because she ran Dr. Atkins’ clinic for thirty years, that why. She has more first-hand experience with ketogenic diets than anyone else I know. Who better to ask?
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Andrew DiMino
October 5, 2021
Book Reviews, Books, Menu Planning, Nutritional Ketosis, Reviews
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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Andrew DiMino
August 23, 2018
Cholesterol, Diabetes, Ketogenic Diet, News & Events, Nutrition, Nutritional Ketosis, Research & Science
The Internet is ablaze with a scathing “news” story again about how coconut oil is bad for you. Again. This is the same old misinformed story we hear about the “dangers” of saturated fat. This is why we disagree.
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Dana Carpender
November 19, 2017
Ketogenic Diet, Nutritional Ketosis
How many ways can one article get things wrong?! Newsweek’s overwhelmingly wrong-headed article "Can You Lose Weight on a Ketogenic Diet?" by Joseph Frankel is clearly going for a record.
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Dana Carpender
August 28, 2017
Fat Fast, Fat Fast Cookbook 2, Fat Fast Recipes, Nutritional Ketosis, Recipes, Salad Recipes
I stole this Caesar Salad with Olives and Pine Nuts idea from Truffles, a terrific restaurant here in Bloomington. Do use good quality olives—I used half green, half black, packed in olive oil, from our superb local gourmet grocery Sahara Mart. A great Fat Fast salad.
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Dana Carpender
August 17, 2017
Beverage Recipes, Cookbooks, Fat Fast, Fat Fast Cookbook 2, Fat Fast Recipes, Nutritional Ketosis, Recipes
Bottled Caesar dressing is so often harsh, but this is rich and mellow. In the Fat Fast Caesar Dressing Recipe from Fat Fast Cookbook 2, I used two anchovies because I only like a hint of them, but my husband, an anchovy fiend, said he’d love it with another anchovy or two.
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Dana Carpender
December 15, 2016
Beverage Recipes, Fat Fast, Fat Fast Cookbook 2, Fat Fast Recipes, Nutritional Ketosis, Recipes
Morning Mocha Fat Fast Recipe from Fat Fast Cookbook 2. Great on a hot summer morning. Feel free to microwave it in the winter for a hot beverage, too. Either way, it’ll get you out of the house fast.
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Dana Carpender
December 14, 2016
Fat Fast, Fat Fast Cookbook 2, Fat Fast Recipes, Nutritional Ketosis, Recipes
This Fat Fast Buffalo Chicken Soup recipe from the Fat Fast Cookbook 2 is devastating. I’ve analyzed this as 10 servings, but unless you live alone, you won’t get that much. The family will eat it all, while you’re sticking to your Fat Fast portions—which should be about 1½ cups each.
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Andrew DiMino
November 29, 2016
CarbSmart Cookbooks, Cookbooks, Dana Carpender Books & Cookbooks, Fat Fast, Fat Fast Cookbook 2, Fat Fast Recipes, Nutritional Ketosis, Recipes
Introducing the NEW Fat Fast Cookbook 2 with 50 More—Even Better—Low-Carb High-Fat Ketogenic Recipes to Jump-Start Your Low-Carb Fat Burning! Bestselling Low-Carb Expert and Author of Fat Fast Cookbook Dana Carpender has gone back to the kitchen in collaboration with CarbSmart Publisher Andrew DiMino to create 50 more incredible Low-Carb recipes that will quickly get you into Nutritional Ketosis and kick start your stalled weight loss. They’ve created an updated companion to the first Fat Fast Cookbook with 50 more Low-Carb High-Fat Ketogenic recipes to propel you into deep ketosis.
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Andrew DiMino
August 6, 2014
Book Reviews, Books, Nutritional Ketosis
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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