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Staying Well While You’re Getting Well Low-Carb Tips for Cold and Flu Relief – CarbSmart Podcast Episode 22

Dana Carpender 914

Autumn. The cool, crisp air. The brilliant leaves. The cozy sweaters. And the advent of cold and flu season. What does this have to do with our low-carb diets? More than you might think at first glance. Between cough syrup and cough drops, multi symptom cold relievers. And the oft recommended tea with honey and chicken noodle soup, there are pitfalls here.
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How to Have a Fun & Healthy Low-Carb Halloween – CarbSmart Podcast Episode 21

Dana Carpender 869
3 Question Interview with Fred Hahn – CarbSmart Podcast Episode 20

Dana Carpender 236
Why I’m Not a Low-Carb Purist – CarbSmart Podcast Episode 19

Dana Carpender 689
Are You NOT Getting Enough Sodium on Your Low Carb Diet? CarbSmart Podcast 18

Dana Carpender 1,537
Can Low-Carb Slow The Aging Process? CarbSmart Podcast Episode 17

Dana Carpender 1,040

Low-Carb Halloween

How to Have a Fun & Healthy Low-Carb Halloween – CarbSmart Podcast Episode 21

Dana Carpender 869

Recently, on a website I frequent, there was a discussion of Halloween plans. There I first encountered the concept of "trunk-or-treat," a Halloween event that is apparently gaining popularity across the country. People dress their kids up in costumes, pack candy in their cars, and go to a predesignated parking lot. There the children run from car to car, collecting candy.
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Refusing Holiday Food and Staying Low-Carb by Dana Carpender

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Refusing Holiday Food and Staying Low-Carb – CarbSmart Podcast Episode 1

Dana Carpender 1,531
Traditional Low-Carb Gluten-Free Pumpkin Pie Recipe

Andrew DiMino 2,196
Pumpkin is Not Just for Pie for the Holidays: Low-Carb Pumpkin Recipes

Tracey Rollison 1,719

The Latest From CarbSmart

Romano & Black Pepper Baked Cheese Crisps by Grace Island Foods

Romano & Black Pepper Grace Island Baked Cheese Crisps are a whole new way to think about crackers. Fresh goodness of Romano & Black Pepper Grace Island Cheese Chips.

Baby Swiss Baked Cheese Crisps by Grace Island Foods

Andrew DiMino 495

Baby Swiss Grace Island Baked Cheese Crisps are a whole new way to think about crackers. Fresh goodness of Baby Swiss Grace Island Cheese Chips.

Asiago Baked Cheese Crisps by Grace Island Foods

Andrew DiMino 795

Asiago Grace Island Baked Cheese Crisps are a whole new way to think about crackers. Fresh goodness of Asiago Grace Island Cheese Chips.

Mmmmm…Bacon… The Many, Many Joys of Bacon by Dana Carpender

Dana Carpender 935

The best perk of my job is free Low-Carb food. Manufacturers send me samples, hoping I'll like their products well enough to mention them. Andrew here at CarbSmart.com sends me food to try. And one year, my publisher subscribed me to the Bacon of the Month Club. I swear I'm not making that up. What a great gift! A new variety of small-farm, boutique, gourmet bacon every month.

Golden Aztec Punch (Nonalcoholic)

Andrew DiMino 889

A nonalcoholic recipe for Golden Aztec Punch by Di Bauer.

Are 100 Calorie Packs Good For You? By Dana Carpender

Dana Carpender 1,095

Please tell me I'm not the only one who talks back to the television. Okay, what I really do is yell at the television. I yell at politicians, and the people on my soap operas. I yell with real gusto at food ads.

Summer Chicken Stir Fry

Andrew DiMino 888

Summer Chicken Stir Fry recipe by Judy Bauer.

Ask Dana Carpender – Now @ CarbSmart Magazine

Andrew DiMino 1,457

Each week Dana will be writing helpful and entertaining articles about the low carb lifestyle at Carb Smart Magazine healthy eating and anything else she wants to write about.

Dana Carpender Does Politics – Food Politics That Is

Dana Carpender 504

I have, over the years, resolutely kept my political views out of my writing about carb-controlled nutrition. Not that I don't have such views, you understand. I'm just as opinionated in that part of my life as I am about food. I just had this mental image of someone with severe metabolic syndrome reading my work, finding some political view he or she disagreed with, and saying, "I'm not going to listen to anything that nutcase says!" After which, of course, they'd get their feet amputated and go blind from diabetic complications, and it would all be my fault. Or at least partly my fault.

Dana Carpender Books and Cookbooks CarbSmart

Organic Doesn’t Always Mean Healthy

Dana Carpender 423

"Organic" is no kind of guarantee of nutrition. Please don't get me wrong. I am not against organic food. I buy a lot of local, small farm, organically raised stuff myself.