low-carb diets

Low Carb Beats Low Fat for Fat Loss & More

A study that Johns Hopkins researchers presented at a recent American Heart Association meeting showed the more belly fat you lose, the better your arteries can expand, which allows more blood to flow to your heart, brain, and other areas. The six-month study divided 60 men and women into two groups that combined either a [...]

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Take a Vacation From Your Low-Carb Diet

Can you take a five-day “vacation” from your low-carb diet every week and still burn fat? A new study suggests that possibility. Researchers here found women who cut carbs for just two days each week lost more weight than women who stuck with a permanent calorie-restricted diet. In other words, for five days every week, [...]

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Three Great Ways to Make a Protein Shake

From time to time I hear from people who absolutely love the whey protein powders we sell on our website like Dream Protein, Whey Cool Protein and Paleomeal, but are stuck for ideas on how to use them. Sure, you can just add water, or some frozen berries, but after a while that can get [...]

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Are There Any Fattening Vegetables?

Are some veggies more fattening than others? It’s not an unreasonable question. As you know, we’re experiencing an epidemic of obesity and diabetes in most of the Western world. (Actually, it’s not just the western world- India and China now lead the US in the number of diabetics, but even adjusted for population the percent [...]

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Size Matters: The Truth About Carbs vs. Calories

We Americans aren’t fond of complexity and nuance. Maybe it’s the pace of our society, the influence of the “fast cut” or the speed of our Blackberries that has reprogrammed our brains and shortened our attention spans. Who knows? All I know is this: when it comes to nutrition information, people want it short, fast, [...]

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The Best Diet for Maintaining Weight Loss

Researchers in Denmark have found that a high-protein low-GI diet was significantly better than other diets tested at maintaining weight loss in subjects who had already successfully shed pounds. My father used to have a favorite saying: “It’s easy to stop smoking. I myself have done it lots of times!” The same could be said [...]

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Natural Weight Loss

When I was a kid, my father used to tell me how easy it was to stop smoking. “Nothing to it”, he’d scoff, “I’ve done it at least a dozen times”. Which reminds me of weight loss. Most people have had the experience of losing the same ten pounds (or more) as often as my [...]

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How to Make Yourself Sick (in 7 easy steps)

How to Make Yourself Sick (Slowly But Surely) The following is adapted from an article by one of my favorite healers, Dr. David Williams. Dr. Williams’ print newsletter, Alternatives, is highly recommended. If you want to clog your arteries with plaque, forget the cholesterol in your diet. It won’t make any difference. Here’s the quick [...]

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High-Fat Diet Better For Weight Loss

A new study shows that an Atkins-type high-fat diet is more effective for weight loss than a standard high-carb low-fat diet. In this study, presented Friday at the American College of Sports Medicine meeting in Denver, researchers assigned 55 men and women who were overweight or obese to either a low-carb diet or a low-fat [...]

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High-Protein, Low-Glycemic Diet Proven Best for Maintaining Weight Loss

“Quitting smoking is easy”, my father used to say. “I’ve done it 20 times”. And so it is with weight loss. Losing is the easy part. Keeping it off.. not so much. Losing weight is hard- so finding a reasonable plan that allows you to maintain your hard won gains is the holy grail of [...]

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10 Superfoods for Weight Loss (Part One)

Superfoods like berries, grapefruit and pumpkin can help you lose weight quickly! Look, there’s no shortage of books (and articles) telling you what not to eat if you want to lose weight. But information on what you should eat to control your weight? Not so much. The truth is you can lose weight eating just [...]

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Featured Recipe: Blackstrap Balsamic Steak Salad

This quick and easy recipe is from my latest cookbook, “The 150 Healthiest 15-Minute Recipes on Earth“, co-authored with Chef Jeannette Bessinger. Enjoy! Once you taste what blackstrap molasses does to food, you’ll want to find more ways to use this healthy sweetener. Molasses is actually the byproduct of sugar refining. It contains all of [...]

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