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A Blazing Hot Side Effect Of A Low-Carb Diet

Low-carb burns fat, but can it lead to extra body heat? Ooh, ooh, ooh, I feel my temperature rising Help me, I'm flaming I must be a hundred and nine Burning, burning, burning And nothing can cool me I...
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Get Ready For Big Life Changes After Low-Carb Weight Loss

The low-carb lifestyle changed my life much more than physically After you lose weight, a whole lot about your life changes. Besides the obvious physical differences in how you look and feel, there are some rather unexpected emotional and...
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Experiencing Weight Gain On A Low-Carb Diet: Is It Possible?

We all know low-carb is great for weight loss, but can you gain? When people first start livin' la vida low-carb and come to me with all their wide-eyed inquisitive questions about this and that regarding this truly amazing...
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Low-Carb Mood Swings Are a Myth, Study Claims

Note from Connie: People often like to badmouth the Atkins diet for making you spacey and cranky. Well, a new study, which I asked my capable SUGAR SHOCK! Blog writer/researcher Karen James to report about, completely debunks that theory. Interesting...
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Sugar-Free Mentos Snags Another Unsuspecting Victim

Beware: Sugar-Free Mentos aren't just "sweetened with Splenda" There oughta be a big bold WARNING label placed on any sugar-free product that purports to be "sweetened with Splenda" if sucralose is not the top sweetener. You know what I'm...
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Fiber In Your Diet Is Healthy...Or Is It?

I enjoy hearing different opinions as it relates to health. Although I'm no expert in this field of study, I have learned more about diet, health, and nutrition over the past few years than I have anything else in my...
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A High-Carb, Low-Fat Diet Will Harm Your 'Fatty Liver'

A "fatty liver" like this not caused by fat, but rather carb intake I just love bringing up common myths about livin' la vida low-carb and shooting them down with the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the...
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UK Pilot Wrongfully Arrested For Being 'Drunk' On Low-Carb?

After several weeks of interviews, it's back to normal format again in Episode 42 of "The Livin' La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore". If you read that story about the supposedly "drunk" pilot in the UK this past week,...
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The Forgotten Blood Sugar Disorder: Hypoglycemia

One of the things I enjoy doing at CarbWire is providing information that people can apply to their daily lives that will help them solve an issue they are having while livin' la vida low-carb. Whether it's about weight loss,...
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How Do You Deal With 'Debilitating Leg Spasms' On A Low-Carb Diet?

I've noticed a trend among the e-mails I have been receiving lately. It looks like people are trying to get back to the basics of their low-carb lifestyle and ask questions that most of us long-term low-carbers are already familiar...
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How Can You Eat A High-Protein Diet And Be Hungry?

I received a perplexing e-mail from a reader this week who claims to be on a high-protein diet and having a certain strange side effect from it. Here's what she wrote: "Hello there. Congrats on your weight loss success. I...
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Another Message On Hypoglycemia From Connie Bennett

The energetic, beautiful, and talented Connie Bennett! Back by popular demand is bestselling author Connie Bennett from the SUGAR SHOCK! blog guest blogging at the "Livin' La Vida Low-Carb" blog with more information about the subject of hypoglycemia which...
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Nutrition Expert Concerned About Low-Carb, But Willing To Learn

My blog post from last Friday about the nutritionist who wrote the educational materials for the South Carolina "Shrinkdown" event where literally thousands of people in my home state are seeking to lose weight and get healthy caused quite a...
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Loose Skin After Weight Loss Doesn't Go Away

Two years after losing 180 pounds, my loose skin still haunts me It's been over two years now since I lost the majority of my 190 pounds and my loose skin problem hasn't gotten any better as everyone claimed...
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Love Life Lacking? Weight Loss Will Help!

Weight loss is indeed a powerful thing that can transform your life forever for the better in more ways than most people even realize. Besides the obvious things like being able to move around better, feeling more confident about yourself,...
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Say It Ain't So: Bacon Halts Low-Carb Weight Loss?

Are you consuming a lot of bacon and not losing weight? Courtesy of our friends over at The Weight Loss Daily Blog, I learned something new about the food that most people erroneously stereotype as the staple of livin'...
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Vicious Hack Job Gets It Bad Wrong About Low-Carb

Vee Jefferson should be feeling mighty proud of herself right about now. In the two years I have been writing about low-carb diet and health, never has anything caused more anger and disgust from my readers than this Augusta Free...
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Have You Been Caught Low-Carbing And Driving Yet?

Have you been caught low-carbing and driving yet? This is going to sound like a joke to you, but it's dead serious. If you are on the low-carb lifestyle, then you very well could fail a breathalyzer test administered...
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Video Explains Why You Want To Get The Atkins Flu

One of the major criticisms of the Atkins/low-carb lifestyle is that it makes you feel sick like you have the flu. Headaches, body aches, shivers, cold sweating, dizziness, nausea and more! Who wants to go through all of this just...
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Is Your Low-Carb Diet Endangering Your Pets?

You're on a low-carb diet and you purchase lots of sugar-free products to get rid of sugar and excessive refined carbohydrates from your life. Weight loss is happening and life is going great for you. But then one day...
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Read This If Loose Skin Is Scaring You From Weight Loss

When I started the low-carb lifestyle in January 2004, one of the last things I even thought about was what my stomach would look like if I lost a lot of weight. I had worse things to think about at...
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Is There A Limit To Low-Carb Weight Loss?

A fascinating topic of discussion has ensued surrounding the following question: "Does low-carb living ever stop working?" The line of thinking behind this theory is that low-carb only helps you lose weight to a certain point and then stops working...
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Losing On Low-Carb Makes You Lose Your Voice?

World-renowed opera tenor Richard Margison is in the midst of losing close to 100 pounds thanks to the Atkins diet. But he has expressed concern about how his low-carb weight loss may negatively impact his singing voice. "I had...
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Could Low-Carb Be The Reason For Pain In The Abdomen?

I received an e-mail from a very active 26-year-old, 115-pound woman who started low-carb in April for the sake of improving her health. However, she said she is now having "a strange pain appear on my lower right abdominal side"...
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If You're Having Pain, Your Low-Carb Lifestyle Is To Blame

In the last couple of days, I have been experiencing a tremendous amount of pain in my right ear. I've put drop in them, flushed them out with water, put alcohol in them, and NOTHING seems to be making...
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Squishy-Squashy Loose Skin After Low-Carb Weight Loss

I know, showing a picture of my loose skin is disgusting to display in public, but I think this is an important topic for people who are losing weight on low-carb to know about. Whether you have 50, 100...
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What's Up With This Weight 'Bounce' After Enormous Low-Carb Weight Loss?

After reading about my slight weight gain in 2006 after losing 180 pounds on the Atkins diet in 2004, a woman sent me an e-mail sharing she too saw her weight "bounced" after her low-carb weight loss. "I admit I've...
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Dr. Michael Eades: 'Fat Drives HDL Levels Up'

I had the distinct privilege and honor to meet one of the greatest ambassadors for the low-carb lifestyle in January at a low-carb conference that took place in Brooklyn, New York. I'm referring to Dr. Michael Eades, of course,...
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The Worst Sugar Alternative Known To Man: Maltitol!

Here's a scenario for you: You're going along great in your low-carb weight loss plan, lost about 25 pounds, and feeling great. So you decide to treat yourself to some sugar-free, low-carb chocolates because you saw on the front of...
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Low-Carb Energizing Or Is It Agonizing?

There are two schools of thought regarding the side effect of being on a low-carb diet: it gives you tons of energy you never knew you had or it completely wipes you out making you feel dead tired all the...
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Do You Only Get One Shot At Low-Carb Weight Loss?

Perhaps you have heard of this before, but it was a new one to me. I received an e-mail from a woman this week who said she lost weight previously on low-carb, but then got off the diet and gained...
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'Carb Blocker': Low-Carb Miracle Drug Or Loco Moneymaking Scam?

Critics of the low-carb lifestyle like to make the case that people who restrict their intake of carbohydrates are always tired and weak. They add that this side effect of being on a low-carb diet proves that it isn't...
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Carb addicts fight back

Frustrated by the popularity of low-carb diets, carbohydrate-laden food fans have created a line of shirts to promote carbs. Carb Couture was developed by three carb-loving women who wanted to "come out" of the fridge and declare their devotion to...
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Low-carb side effects cited

According to a scientist who reviewed five dozen diet studies, low-carb diets produce more side effects than the average low-fat diet. Danish obesity expert Dr. Arne Astrup, whose survey is published this week in The Lancet medical journal, says that...
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Nation's largest pasta pusher files for Chapter 11

New World Pasta Co, the nations largest pasta maker, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company makes San Giorgio, Creamette and Ronzoni dry pastas. Pasta makers are having a hard time to keep sales up with the increased...
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Potato farmers having the low-carb blues

The AP has an article about the effect of decreasing potato sales on potato farmers. Potato acreage peaked in 1996 and has steadily dropped since. Adding to the problem are lower prices for potatoes--currently 14% lower than a year ago....
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Personal chefs cashing in on low-carb

The Atlanta Journal Constitution is running an AP article about the growing popularity of personal chefs in America. One of the sources contributing to the popularity is the rise of low-carb diets: Rod and Debbie Basler wanted to follow the...
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Low-carb diets fueling laxative sales

Laxative sales have been steadily on the rise, and according to those who study such things, this is due to the popularity of low-carb diets. GlaxoSmithKline is even running a funny ad that touts the fact....
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Low-carb great for meat sales

Low-carb dieters have been fueling the sale of pork rinds to a near all-time high. The snack food naturally has 0 carbs, which is helping it find lots of new fans. Few, if any, junk food type snacks can boast...
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Citrus industry rethinks low-carb attacks

Citrus industry leaders are rethinking a negative ad campaign targeted at low-carb diets. The spots which are yet unaired have sparked controversy. One prospective ad, called "grease," showed a spokesman frying bacon, sausage and other breakfast meats, then pouring the...
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Some Florida schools to put kids on Atkins

Schools in Palm Beach and Broward counties (both in Southern Florida) will put their students on Atkins-style diets in the coming weeks. The reason? A massive standardized test dubbed the FCAT. The hope is that the low-carb diet will boost...
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