"For years health organizations have preached the same rules for losing weight: restrict your calories, eat less, exercise more. It's simple enough. So why doesn't it work for millions of overweight or obese Americans? Gary Taubes sets the record straight--clarifying a century of misunderstanding about the differences between diet, weight control, and health--and gives us a revolutionary manifesto for the 21st-century diet, and a primer on how low-carbohydrate,...

"Slow cooker and one pot meals are the ultimate convenience food. Just fix it and forget it, then enjoy a nourishing meal when everyone gets home. Unfortunately, most slow cooker and one-pot recipes depend on processed, high-carbohydrate ingredients like noodles, potatoes, and other high-glycemic ingredients which aren’t allowed on the ketogenic diet. Now you can combine the convenience of slow cooker and one pot recipes with your ketogenic lifestyle!...

This low-carb diet book is geared towards diabetics. An engineer by training, Bernstein pioneered blood glucose self-monitoring and the tight control of blood sugar that is now accepted as the standard treatment of diabetes.

"In THE PERSONAL PALEO CODE, Chris Kresser uses the Paleo diet as a baseline from which you can tailor the ideal 3-step program--Reset, Rebuild, and Revise--to fit your lifestyle as well as your individual body type, genetic make-up, and specific health issues. Best of all, you only have to follow the program 80% of the time; there's room to indulge in moderation. THE PERSONAL PALEO CODE also includes practical advice on stress reduction, how to restore...

Provides information on how to use the glycemic index to achieve weight loss and increase metabolism, and offers 150 recipes to make such items as appetizers, snacks, soups, salads, entrées, side dishes, and desserts using low-glycemic staples.

"From New York Times bestselling author of The Paleo Solution ... One Month to Reset Your Metabolism for Lasting Fat Loss One Week to Discover the Carbs that are Right for You. Do you struggle to lose weight and get healthy? Are you playing the blame-game and berating yourself for "cheating" on your diet? This struggle should come as no surprise, as we are genetically wired to eat more and move less, the exact opposite of the advice we are often given....

An in-depth guide on how to suspect, identify, and over-come those health problems in people of all ages and sexes that can be traced to sensitivity to the yeast germ candida albicans. 
The Yeast Connection also includes:
1. Easy-to-follow diet instructions;
2. Information about labratory studies and tests, prescription and nonprescription medications, and treatment with candida vaccines; 
3. A discussion of the yeast...

"A journey from old traditions to modern Indian cooking with deliciously simple and gut-healing recipes that leave you feeling fulfilled -- rather than full. Upon learning that rice and bread were the culprits for her husband's Type 2 diabetes, Deepa Thomas deconstructed and reinvented her native Indian cuisine. Deepa made anew seventy slow carb recipes, incorporating time-saving Western cooking techniques, breaking-news research on gut health and...

Provides a collection of low-carbohydrate recipes for appetizers, breads, vegetable dishes, main dishes, soups, condiments and sauces, and desserts.

Primal Endurance shakes up the status quo and challenges the overly stressful, ineffective conventional approach to endurance training. While marathons and triathlons are wildly popular and bring much gratification and camaraderie to the participants, the majority of athletes are too slow, continually tired, and carry too much body fat respective to the time they devote to training. The prevailing "chronic cardio" approach promotes carbohydrate dependency,...