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In honor of Halloween, we wanted to bring you one more festive meal idea to get your low carb brains thinkin' creatively. Now you will learn the "secret" of the Fluffy Chix Cook Low Carb Pumpkin Sausage Soup recipe in festive Oven Roasted Jack O' Lanterns.

These cute little roasted pumpkins make a great, Halloween treat for serving all kinds of soups and stews. Don’t forget to roast the seeds that you scoop out of the pumpkins and save them for snacks.

Adrenal Fatigue is the result of an overactive stress response. In this article by Vanessa Romero, she lays the groundwork for discussing stress, what it is, how the body responds to it and how to identify if it’s impacting your health.

A recent article from USA Today discusses a study conducted by researchers at the Mayo Clinic, in which 1,230 adults, ages 70 to 89, were tracked to determine how dietary choices including a higher amount of carbohydrates might play a role in MCI (mild cognitive impairment).

Susie T. Gibbs has put together a couple of 4 Under $10 low carb meals for your fall and Halloween enjoyment. How about giving her Spooky Halloween Guts and Worms a try! It's pretty scary...but darn good!

What do you eat to prevent breast cancer, or cure it if you are unfortunate enough to be fighting it? Will proper nutrition help you beat it? And just what is “proper nutrition”? What role does a low carb lifestyle play in nutrition and breast cancer? The answers to these questions are not clear-cut or easily determined. In order to discuss these questions, we must first understand a few things about the nature of the beast. We must also understand the difficulties involved in writing nutritional policies for use on populations with breast cancer.

Ketogenic diets: additional benefits to the weight loss and unfounded secondary effects.

Here we are, facing that time of year when we pay filmakers and haunted houses to scare the pants off of us. Sure, homicidal maniacs and monsters are frightening, but did you ever stop to think about the things that should really scare us? I have, and I'm going to share a few with you today. So without further ado, here are 11 movies I think should have been made, with my personal low-carb twist of course.

When Alan Shanley grew up in Australia, obesity and diabetes were not a common occurrence. Australia is today ranked as one of the fattest nations in the developed world. The prevalence of obesity in Australia has more than doubled in the past 20 years. In his first column for CarbSmart, Alan looks at the transition of nutritional advice from his youth to now in Australia.