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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.

Low Carb Eating 
A report on the 2006 NMS Conference. Physicians present agreed that restricting carbohydrates would impact the worldwide epidemics of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and other aspects of insulin dysfunction. By conference end, the connection between low-carb diets and metabolic health was unequivocally established.

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 Eaaminer 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.

She Knows 
Young Women – This Site Is For YOU!. Offers practical tips for applying a low-carb diet to your life. Lots of articles and links.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

The Low Carb Chef
To Eat Great & Lose Weight

Blaines Low Carb Kitchen
Fit TV

Low Carb CookwoRx
Recipes & more from husband and wife Drs. Michael and Mary Dan Eades


Low Carb Dieting Secrets

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!

USENET's low-carbohydrate diet newsgroup
A practical starting point for someone interested in a low-carb diet. Lots of Links!

Seven Steps to Greater Carb Control
Laura Dolson About.com

BLOGS

Low Carb Lolitas

Your Health is on Your Plate
Dr. Sukol

PāNu
Paleolithic nutrition - duplicating the evolutionary metabolic milieu
Kurt G. Harris, MD

April’s CR Diary
That’s calorie restriction! Follow a calorie restriction disciple through her transition into the world of carbohydrate restriction. CR+CR = May this be the optimal way to good health?

Talk Medical – Talk Low Carb Nutrition

LowCarbism
The latest in low carb lifestyle

CarbWire - Jimmy Moore Carb Wire is an online review of everything low-carb by Jimmy Moore. Whether you're already on a diet, or are just doing research, the site provides the up-to-date low-carb information. Get great recipes and new products. Jimmy Moore’s site is a personal experience approach, with research underpinnings.

More Jimmy Moore Be prepared to get angry, frustrated and then relieved to know we have the answer for diabetics staring us right in the face: it's the low-carb lifestyle whether the ADA will ever admit to it or not.

Regina Wilshire Regina is an active proponent of controlled-carb nutrition provides readers with analysis of scientific evidence in a clear, consise manner.

Basil & Spice – Author and Book Views on a Healthy Life

MESSAGE BOARDS

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! [This is a great human resource, however some of the advice can be a little wacky.]

ARTICLES

•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]

Forbes Article: Could a Low-Carb Diet Slow Alzheimer’s? [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?]

Low Carb Diets: The metabolic advantage. PDF Article from Low Carb Energy Magazine [article]

Fats Make You Fat, Right? Recently, Drs. Willet and Leibel at the Harvard School of Public Health concluded that fat consumption within the range of 18 to 40 percent of energy appears to have little if any effect on body fatness.4 Thus, they felt that 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.4 [article]

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]

Latest Findings on High-Protein/Low-Carb Diets By Anssi H. Manninen, MHS. The Atkins diet led to greater weight loss, reduction in blood triglyceride levels (harmful blood fats that may trigger heart disease) and increase in the HDL cholesterol (“good” cholesterol) level compared with the low-fat diet. [article]

Dr. John Briffa, Improve biochemical markers of chronic disease, such as blood sugar levels and levels of blood fats, such as triglycerides.























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