Where to Find Healthy Diet Support from the CarbSmart Team

As the new year rolls around once again, we all tend to evaluate the previous year and look at the things that need to change or improve. Most often, people decide to take better care of themselves. This requires not only changes in exercise and diet, but also a change in mindset and attitude, which can sometimes be the most difficult part. To help you with those changes to your low carb lifestyle, or just encourage you along your journey, we’ve put together this list of healthy resources for help and diet support. If you have a question, you are likely to find it among all the amazing information available from the many people and websites below.

CarbSmart.com

Our main website, CarbSmart.com, is dedicated to helping every one who is currently following–or considering switching to–the low carb lifestyle. Whether the goal is to lose weight, maintain current weight, or deal with a specific health issue like reducing blood sugar or blood pressure, eliminating diabetes, improving cholesterol levels, or increasing exercise effectiveness, CarbSmart is your trusted guide to the low carb lifestyle.

Website: https://www.carbsmart.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CarbSmart
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CarbSmart
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/carbsmart
Google+: https://plus.google.com/118140152618514088354

Dr. Nicole Avena

Dr. Nicole Avena is a research neuroscientist and expert in the fields of nutrition, diet and addiction. She is a pioneer in the field of food addiction, and it was her seminal research work that jump started this exciting new field of exploration in medicine and nutrition. She received a Ph.D. in Psychology and Neuroscience from Princeton University in 2006 and then completed her postdoctoral fellowship in 2010 at the prestigious Rockefeller University in New York City. Dr. Avena also presently holds a research faculty position at the New York Obesity Research Center, a part of Columbia University.

Dr. Avena’s latest book, Why Diets Fail reviews the research on food addiction and provides a way in which people can remove added sugars and carbohydrates from their diet.

Website: http://www.drnicoleavena.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrNicoleAvena
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrNicoleAvena
Blog: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/food-junkie
Book: Why Diets Fail

Valerie Berkowitz

Valerie J. Berkowitz, M.S., R.D., C.D.N., C.D.E., is a licensed registered dietitian, certified diabetes educator, and certified lifestyle counselor practicing for 13 years. She is the Director of Nutrition at the Center for Balanced Health. Prior to this, Valerie worked as a nutritionist at The Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine (ACCM). While employed at ACCM, her efforts focused on bridging the gap between conventional and complementary nutritional practice and included educating patients, mentoring nutrition students, speaking at events for consumers and health care professionals, in addition to assisting in research efforts about the low carb lifestyle. These efforts helped her gain invaluable scientific and practical understanding of the intricacies of controlled carbohydrate nutrition plans and the beneficial medical implications.

Website: http://valerieberkowitz.wordpress.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nutritionnohow
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/valerie.berkowitz

Cassie Bjork

Cassie is a Registered, Licensed Dietitian and Health Coach, who is passionate about exposing people to healthy nutrition with real food. Through her company Dietitian Cassie, she focuses on debunking rumors, diet myths and fads, and teaches how to eat healthy by breaking down research-based material into practical forms that can be implemented into any lifestyle. Cassie believes in using real food for optimal health and performance. Cassie specializes in nutrition for weight loss, diabetes, heart disease, disordered eating, and sports nutrition. She strives to live a balanced lifestyle through real food and exercise and enjoys helping others do the same.

Website: http://www.dietitiancassie.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/dietitiancassie
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/dietitiancassie
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/dietitiancassie
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/dietitiancassie

Dana Carpender

Starting with the self-published edition of How I Gave Up My Low Fat Diet and Lost 40 Pounds in 1998, Dana Carpender has emerged as one of the most prolific of low carb cookbook authors, with more than 2500 low carb recipes in print, and over a million books sold. When she’s not in the kitchen, she hangs out at her page on Facebook, blogs now and then at Hold The Toast, and writes for CarbSmart, covering not just low carb cooking, but lifestyle issues as well. She also shows a bizarre fascination with junk food advertising, which she blames on her father having been a real-life Mad Man. She has been low carb for 19 years now, and recently stunned yet another doctor with her blood work.

Website: http:/www.holdthetoast.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dana-Carpenders-Hold-The-Toast-Press/118433594850660

Emily Jean Dewey

Emily Jean Dewey is a board certified Holistic Health Counselor and blogger who teaches women how to stop the diet drama for good, and start loving the CRAP out of life right now. After years of her own diet yo-yo-ing, fed-up with feeling like food was the enemy, she started on her own diet-ditching, body-lovin’ life experiment. She is here now to teach others what she has learned along the way through her blog and Life-EVOLving programs. Emily is the founder of Your EVOLved Life and a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.

Website: http://YourEVOLvedLife.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EmilyJeanEVOLved
Twitter: https://twitter.com/yourEVOLvedlife
Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/yourEVOLvedlife
Instagram: http://instagram.com/yourevolvedlife

Amy Dungan

Amy Dungan has been living the low carb lifestyle for the better part of 12 years. She’s had some significant ups and downs, but continues to push her way through this sometimes confusing maze of health and diet information. Through her website, she shares information, recipes, and the latest happenings in the low carb community. Amy is also the Managing Editor of CarbSmart Magazine, does freelance writing and photography, and is co-author of the popular Fat Fast Cookbook.

Website: http://www.healthylowcarbliving.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HealthyLowCarbLiving
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmyDungan
Pintrest: http://www.pinterest.com/amy_dungan
Book: Fat Fast Cookbook

Jacqueline A. Eberstein

Jacqueline A. Eberstein runs Controlled Carbohydrate Nutrition, LLC, and is an RN who never thought she would spend most of her career dealing with weight loss and nutrition until she met Dr. Bob Atkins. It is because of him that she has avoided the diabetes and obesity that was likely to be a result of her genetic makeup. It is because of her personal and clinical experiences working with him that she learned a better way of weight management and health maintenance. She has avoided many of the medications people her age rely on. She is happy to be sharing her knowledge of what Dr. Atkins taught her about diet, but also about Complementary Medicine. It still saddens her that he can’t be here to share his great knowledge and see that much of what he talked and wrote about is being accepted. She will continue to try to be his voice.

Website: http://www.controlcarb.com
Book: Atkins Diabetes Revolution

Susie T. Gibbs

Susie T. Gibbs, AKA Fluffy Chix Cooks, focuses on great food for friends and family–cleverly disguising healthy, controlled or low carb recipes as down-home, Texas and Southern comfort foods. Her recipes are Paleo/primal friendly, diabetic friendly, mostly gluten free, usually anti-cancer, low carb, controlled carb, low glycemic index food that doesn’t feel like diet food. Check out her website for good food and a few tall tales to keep you entertained.

Website: http://fluffychixcook.blogspot.com
Facebook: http://facebook.com/fluffychixcook
Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/fluffychixcook
Twitter: http://twitter.com/fluffychixcook

Fredrick Hahn

Fredrick Hahn has been involved in exercise ever since he became a member of The Charles Atlas Club when he was 10 years old. He began training clients in the early 1980s at several of NYC’s leading health clubs, including the Equinox and New York Health and Racquet Club. He began developing his Slow Burn system as a physical therapy aide at the Hospital for Joint Diseases Sports Medicine Center in NYC. In 1994, along with one of New York’s leading orthopedic surgeons, he co-founded and directed Metro Sportsmed, a private physical therapy clinic located at New York Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, New York which now has multiple locations throughout the NYC area. In June of 1998, Fred founded and established Serious Strength Inc., a Slow Burn personal training and rehabilitative exercise center in NYC. His clients include top CEOs, celebrities, bestselling authors, journalists and TV personalities. In an effort to provide the best nutritional guidance possible for his clients, Fred initiated an intellectual partnership with the authors of the New York Times bestselling book Protein Power, Drs. Michael and Mary Dan Eades and together authored The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution.

Websites: http://www.seriousstrength.com
http://www.strongkidshealthykids.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Serious-Strength-Personal-Training/132522550490

Adele Hite

Adele Hite, MPH, MAT, is the Executive Director of Healthy Nation Coalition. Part of their mission is to let people know that they are not alone in thinking that the nutritional guidance given by the USDA is not appropriate for all people. While their supporters may have a variety of approaches to nutrition, they share the same common vision of working towards having responsibility for the creation of our nation’s Dietary Guidelines removed from the USDA and HHS and given to one or more independent agencies, offices, or entities that can create dietary guidance that is without bias and responsive to the needs of the people of America.

Website: http://www.forahealthynation.org
Blog: http://eathropology.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ahhite

Misty Humphrey

As a Holistic Nutrition Educator, Misty educates and assists her clients in practicing a real food holistic lifestyle specializing in metabolic syndrome and digestion. Maintaining an 85 lb. weight loss for 13+ years, Misty is able to help her clients’ transition to a healthier lifestyle producing permanent life changing results. Many clients have experienced dramatic and permanent weight loss, normalization of digestion, elimination of medications and increased energy and vitality. As a holistic coach, Misty encourages making a healthy transition to a more enjoyable and sustainable disease free life.

Blog: http://freehealthydietplans.blogspot.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/healthytransitionsdiet

Sagdrina Jalal

Sagdrina Jalal is a Holistic Health and Fitness Consultant. Through her website she consults with clients across the country. With a degree in Education from the University of Georgia, she sees herself as both a lifelong teacher and student. She writes for several online publications including a blog and a Facebook page that celebrates the beauty and accomplishments of those over 40. She is also a nutrition educator and a member of the staff at Eat Smart, Workout Hard.

Website: http://www.sagdrinaj.com
Blog: http://www.fitisthenew40.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sagdrinaj
Eat Smart Workout Hard: https://www.facebook.com/workouthard

Carol Lovett

Ditch The Wheat, run by Carol Lovett, is a blog devoted to grain-free/Paleo recipes. She loves providing her readers with weekly recipes that are sure to be delicious and meet their lifestyle goals.  On top of that, she often explores current health topics that would be of interest to them. She wants to make her readers think about their health and make informed decisions.

Website: http://ditchthewheat.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Carol.DitchTheWheat
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DitchTheWheat

Jimmy Moore

Jimmy Moore is a popular blogger and podcaster from Livin’ La Vida Low Carb and is a well known voice for all things low carb and Paleo. He works to educate, inspire, and encourage through his many media outlets. He’s also the author of several books, including his latest titled Cholesterol Clarity: What The HDL Is Wrong With My Numbers?

Website: http://www.livinlavidalowcarb.com
Podcast: http://www.thelivinlowcarbshow.com
Podcast: http://www.askthelowcarbexperts.com
Podcast: http://www.lowcarbconversations.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LLVLC
Twitter: https://twitter.com/livinlowcarbman
Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JimmyMooreLLVLC/posts

Tom Naughton

Comedian (and former health writer) Tom Naughton replies to the blame-McDonald’s crowd by losing weight on a fat-laden fast-food diet while demonstrating that nearly everything we’ve been told about obesity and healthy eating is wrong. Along with some delicious parody of Super Size Me, Naughton serves up plenty of no-bologna facts that will stun most viewers, such as: The obesity “epidemic” has been wildly exaggerated by the CDC. People the government classifies as “overweight” have longer lifespans than people classified as “normal weight.” Having low cholesterol is unhealthy. Low fat diets can lead to depression and type II diabetes. Saturated fat doesn’t cause heart disease–but sugars, starches and processed vegetable oils do. This is one movie and website you don’t want to miss out on.

Website: http://www.fathead-movie.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/57440891958/

Tracy Rollison

Good Life Health supports you in your journey to a healthy life, starting with the low carb/grain free weekly dinner menu subscription service of Good Life Menus, to the personalized supplement of Good Life Health, and the affiliate relationship with the low fitness entry point exercises of Fit2B Studios. Tracey has been active in the low carb world since 2004, and writes for both CarbSmart Magazine and Know a Bit Ezines. She is also the web designer/developer/master for knowabit.com and many other small business websites.

Websites: http://goodlifemenus.com
http://IDLife.com/GoodLifeHealth

Facebook: http://facebook.com/GoodLifeMenus
Twitter: http://twitter.com/GoodLifeMenus
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/goodlifemenus

Vanessa Romero

Vanessa Romero, owner of Healthy Living How To, is a healthy living enthusiast with experience in personal training, metabolic testing, nutrition and weight loss coaching. Her passion is to help others achieve optimal health through a wellness approach that encompasses living healthy in mind, body, and spirit. Vanessa has been living a low carb lifestyle since 2001.

Website: http://healthylivinghowto.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HealthyLivingHowTo

Franziska Spritzler

Franziska Spritzler is a registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator who believes carbohydrate restriction is key to managing all types of diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). She recently left her position as an outpatient dietitian at a large veteran’s hospital in order to go into private practice using a low carb approach with her clients. She is also a freelance writer for magazines and journals, and she creates nutrition handouts for doctors who share her views on carbohydrate restriction.

Website: http://www.lowcarbdietitian.com 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Low-Carb-Dietitian-LLC/203829699673097
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LowCarbRD
Pintrest: http://www.pinterest.com/lowcarbrd

Caitlin Weeks

Caitlin Weeks BA, Certified Nutrition Consultant, C.H.E.K. Holistic Lifestyle Coach, NASM Certified Personal Trainer is a San Francisco based Holistic Nutritionist serving clients locally and beyond (US & International) via phone and Skype consultations. Since 2001, Caitlin has had success conquering obesity after a lifetime of struggling with her weight. Since 2009 she has been winning the battle over Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis by managing stress and using a whole foods low carb diet. She is committed to educating others about the benefits of Primal eating and efficient exercise. She writes weekly about health and nutrition on her blog the Grass Fed Girl and is a regular contributor to CarbSmart Magazine.

Website: http://www.grassfedgirl.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Grassfedgirl
Instagram: http://instagram.com/grassfedgirl
Twitter: https://twitter.com/grassfedgirlsf
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/grassfedgirl

Shauna Young

Shauna Young, CTN, PhD is owner and Medical Director of Assertive Wellness Center, Chief Medical Advisor of NoHarm Foundation, and a published author. She was awarded the 2006/2007 Awards of Excellence from the Global Foundation for Integrative Medicine, and knighted in 2008 into the international Sovereign Medical Order Knights Hospitaller.

Website: http://www.drshaunayoung.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/assertivewellness
Twitter: http://twitter.com/DrLeQuaque
Book: If Naturopaths Are “Quacks”, Then I Guess I’m a Duck