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Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

The Much-Maligned, Much-Misunderstood Low-Carb Trend As you no doubt know, in the mid-1990s, low-carb dieting became a huge, nationwide craze, as sales of Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution soared. By late 2004 to early 2005, reports from members of the media and food analysts were concluding that low-carb dieting was dying out or already passe. But amidst the reports about low carb's demise, most observers were missing the big picture.

First of all, despite the naysayers, low-carb dieting in some form or another is here to stay, according to Opinion Dynamics, a market research firm that has tracked the movement since 2003. "We expect it to stabilize at between 7 to 15 percent of the population [or about 15 million to 33 million people]," says Larry Shiman, vice president of the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based, full-service market research company, which specializes in the food industry. "The legacy of the trend is that for many dieters, low carb still plays a substantial role.

Low Carb" Is a Misleading Term At the end of the day, advocates of low-carb dieting and maintaining insist that the term "low carb" is inappropriate and misleading. "Low carb doesn't mean you're mainlining lard and eating pork rinds all day. It means making healthier choices in carbs and picking better-quality foods," says Lora Ruffner, R.N., who founded the popular www.lowcarb luxury.com website in 1999 and Low Carb Luxury Magazine in 2000.

Living the Low Carb Life: Controlled Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S. See book keywords and concepts

Maybe you're thinking that you could stand to knock off a few pounds and are interested in low-carb dieting but don't know where to start. Or maybe you're already convinced that low-carb diets are for you but are concerned about some of the health implications that well-meaning people have warned you about. Well, you've come to the right place. 1 Living the Low-Carb Life will help you understand three things: 1. what low-carb diets actually do to and for your body and how they do it 2. why some programs work for some people (and don't for others) 3.

Chapter 1: The History and Origins of Low-Carb Diets Guess what? low-carb dieting did not begin with Atkins! Low-carb diets actually date back to 1864, when William Banting wrote his famous Letter on Corpulence (in essence the very first commercial low-carb diet). But Banting's diet wasn't known as a "low-carb" plan; in fact, there was no such label until the USDA decreed in its 1992 food pyramid that the perfect healthy diet for Americans includes six to eleven servings of grains and starches per day.

Fat Flush brings a different spin to low-carb dieting by concentrating on what Gittleman calls the "five hidden weight gain factors": an overworked liver, lack of fat-burning fats, too much insulin, stress, and something that Dr. Elson Haas has called "false fat." The Liver In addition to being the main organ for detoxification in the body, the liver is also responsible for fat metabolism. Bile, for example, is made in the liver (and stored in the gallbladder) and is responsible for helping the liver break down fats.

This is one of the great paradoxes of low-carb dieting because it is completely counterintuitive. Nonetheless, I've seen it in action many times. More than one person wrote to me of weight loss stalled at a carb intake of 20 grams per day, which they were able to get going again by simply moving their carb intake up to about 40 or 50 grams. One possible explanation for this comes from the work of Dr. Diana Schwarzbein, who would argue that too low an intake of carbs creates higher levels of adrenaline and Cortisol (which ultimately work against weight loss).

Don't Try to Do All the Tips In low-carb dieting, as with many other things in life, you can easily and quickly get intellectually fatigued from information overload, a pitfall that 263 causes many people to just throw up their hands and give up. Don't do this. Use the tips that make sense to you and that you can incorporate easily into your life. Don't worry about the rest. You can always go back and revisit them. Now, let's get started! Food and Drink Drink Wafer No kidding.

Though I have tried to visit virtually every website currently available for low-carb dieting, inevitably by the time this book comes out there will be others. The ones listed here, however, should give you a great place to start. I have also included books that are specifically about low-carbing, as well as what I consider to be essential books about general health and nutrition—the ones I've recommended are very friendly to a low-carb way of life.

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