Low Carb Resources
Recipes
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Podcasts
- The Dana Carpender Show
- The Livin’ la Vida Low Carb Show with Jimmy Moore
- Low Carb Lifestyle podcasts
- Carbohydrates Can Kill with Dr. Robert Su
Websites and Organizations
- Center for Balanced Health: Keith Berkowitz, MD, and Valerie Berkowitz, RD, CDE –The Stubborn Fat Fix is a nutritional guide that helps individuals identify underlying medical conditions that get in the way of weight loss. The emphasis of the low carb nutrition plan is on eating whole foods and making practical lifestyle changes.
- Protein Power: Doctors Michael and Mary Dan Eades – Protein Power The Protein Power plan is a nutritional strategy involving lower carbohydrate, adequate protein and healthy fat choices.
- Atkins: Dr. Robert C. Atkins’ Plan Includes information about Dr. Robert C. Atkins, the low-carb eating plan, recipes, shopping and much more.
- Controlled Carbohydrate Nutrition: As Director of Medical Education at The Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine in New York City, Jacqueline Eberstein, RN was responsible for the education of medical staff on the principles and protocols of the Atkins Lifestyle.
- The Weston Price Foundation: Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts A mixture of nutritional information.
- Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity: The Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity is a non-profit research and public policy organization devoted to improving the world’s diet, preventing obesity, and reducing weight stigma.
- Low Carb Examiner Jamie VanEaton is an internationally published writer, humorist and dieter who rocks hard on a low-carbohydrate, largely gluten-free lifestyle. Great information recipes & fun!
- Low Carb Examiner Jimmy Moore is a freelance writer on the subject of low-carb diets borne out of his 180-pound weight loss in 2004. He enjoys helping others take their own personal journey to better health.
- Life In Action: Reduced sugar & carbohydrate information for families
- Best Low Carbs: A consumer site containing helpful information, and some science.
- Big Fat Lies. Is Your Government Making You Fat?
Low Carb Forums
- NM Society Forum
- Jimmy Moore's Living La Vida Low Carb Forum
- Support for Atkins diet, Protein Power, Neanderthin (Paleo Diet), CAD/CALP, Dr. Bernstein’s Diabetes Solution and any other healthy low-carb diet or plan. Forget starvation and fad diets -- join the healthy eating crowd!
Practical Information
- Blaines Low Carb Kitchen: Fit TV
- About.com’s Laura Dolson: Laura will answer all of your questions on low carb eating. She will explain why low carb diets are good for you, provide you with delicious recipes and share the latest scientific breakthroughs in a clear concise and easy to understand manner. Perfect for the low carb novice.
- Low Carb Friends: A source for low carbohydrate support, Atkins low carb diet resources and motivation for lowcarb diets!
- Seven Steps to Greater Carb Control Laura Dolson About.com
- Low Carb Book Reviews
Low Carb Articles and Resources
- Benefits of Replacing Carbs with Protein by Dr. Richard Feinman
- Cut Down On 'Carbs' to Reduce Body Fat, Study Authors Say. ScienceDaily (June 24, 2011)
- Notes from a carb-free life By Donna Drago, June 30 2011
- Trying To Lose Weight? Study May Have Some Pointers. Interview with Walter Willett
- Enjoy Saturated Fats, They’re Good for You! by Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD
- Eat Sugar and Still Lose Weight: by Jeff Volek, Ph.D., R.D.
- Low-Carbohydrate Food Guide Q&A: How to Rearrange the Food Pyramid for Low-Carb Eating By Laura Dolson, About.com Guide
- Health Tip: Coping With Low Blood Pressure: Suggestions for dealing with hypotension, June 24, 2011
- High Carb Intake in Pregnancy Linked to Gallbladder Disease, Medscape News, by Caroline Helwick
- Online Votes Lift Last-Ranked 'Caveman Diet' June 21, 2011
- High Carb Diet tied to Cancer, June 16, 2011
- Low-Carb, High-Fat Diets May Not Pose Risk to Arteries: Short-term studies found no harm to vascular health, June 2, 2011
- PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources. [self-explanatory]
- Nutrition & Metabolism is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal focused on the integration of nutrition, exercise physiology, clinical investigations, and molecular and cellular biochemistry of metabolism.The areas of interest of Nutrition & Metabolism encompass studies in obesity, diabetes, lipidemias, metabolic syndrome and exercise physiology that have an underlying basis in metabolism. [that’s us]
- Wikipedia online encyclopedia low carbohydrate diet reference. [article]
- News Target article – Study Shows Low Carb Dieters Eat More Vegetables [article]
- Low- carb diet better than low-fat diet at improving metabolic syndrome Eating a low carbohydrate diet improves metabolic syndrome and may therefore decrease the risk of developing diabetes and cardiovascular disease associated with it.
- Low carbohydrate diets in family practice: what can we learn from an internet-based support group [article]
- Medical Research Newsreports: The recently published report showed that a brain protein, amyloid-beta, which is an indicator of Alzheimer's disease, was reduced in mice on the so-called ketogenic diet. [article]
- Science Daily — Diabetes and cardiovascular disease associated with it. In an article published today in the open access journal Nutrition & Metabolism, Jeff Volek and Richard Feinman review the literature and show that the features of metabolic syndrome are precisely those that are improved by reducing carbohydrates in the diet. [can we just use the biomed link?]
- Fats Make You Fat, Right? Diets high in fat do not appear to be the primary cause of the high prevalence of excess body fat in our society, and reductions in fat will not be a solution.
- Low-Carb Diets and Extra Lard: A Story Beyond Urban Legends
By Anssi H. Manninen, MHS. “We can no longer dismiss very-low-carbohydrate diets… Dr. Atkins deserves credit for his observations that many persons can control their weight by greatly reducing carbohydrate intake and for his funding of trials by independent investigators.” Prof. Walter Willett Harvard School of Public Health [article] - Dr. John Briffa, Improve biochemical markers of chronic disease, such as blood sugar levels and levels of blood fats, such as triglycerides.