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Lack of routine can be a major barrier to wellness. Daily living provides a lot of distractions; it is difficult to function optimally without a well-scripted plan. Think about the healthy and fit people you know. Do they have a fairly set schedule for their workouts? Are their meals and periods of rest considered in advance?

Summer is coming to an end, and as the days get shorter and cooler it can become more difficult to maintain the zeal for exercise you had earlier in the season. No longer can nights or evenings be dedicated to working out, since your kids might have a concert or sporting event to attend or need to be picked up from an event. All these distractions make working out more difficult. So, how do you stay motivated to work out in the face of mounting demands on your time?

Many types of pollution clutter our environment, but none are as insidious or inescapable as Food Information Pollution. Here's your "Top Ten" shortcut through the "everyone knows" and "science says" thicket.

A Rebel Among Skeptics in the Low Carb World: I was a skeptic before I started my low-carb diet and I have a skeptic to this day. What I learned is that even some of the best skeptics and scientists make many of the very same errors in their own logic and reasoning that they spot in the arguments of charlatans and quacks.

6 Reasons to Attend the Ancestral Health Symposium in 2014: I've been a CrossFit athlete for close to two years and I consider myself an evolutionary eater for the purposes of health and performance. To say I was very excited to attend this conference is an understatement. I had never heard of AHS before the publishers of CarbSmart asked me to attend, but one look at the website and I was sold.

A Guide to Jicama for the Low Carb Dieter: Jicama, pronounced "hee-ka-ma," is a root vegetable native to Mexico. It is a member of the morning glory family and is related to the sweet potato, but more closely resembles water chestnuts in color, texture, and flavor. With 5g net carbs per cup of raw jicama, it makes a relatively lower carb alternative.

Breast Cancer Awareness: Breast Wishes for a Cancer Free Life. The world is divided into three types of people: Those who think it can never happen to them; those whose lives are dominated by the specter that "they could be next;" and those who've just said, "Oh my goodness, no! Now what do I do?" Which one are you?

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.

The title of this book gave me a good chuckle. Why wouldn't anyone believe in a nutrition-based, natural approach to health and healing? It seems we are fixated on the idea that health must come in the form of a pill or some other expensive method, often less effective than simpler approaches.

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.