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25 Low-Carb Diet, Recipe & Health Books To Check Out

Finding a book about diet and health these days isn't difficult at all. Just go to Barnes & Noble or Amazon and you'll see title after title after title of people trying to tell you what you need to do...
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A Litany Of Books For Your Low-Carb Lifestyle Library

I don't know about you, but ever since I started livin' la vida low-carb I've had such an unprecedented hunger and thirst for information about nutrition, fitness, diet and health like never before in my life with any other subject....
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Book Review: The F-Factor Diet By Tanya Zuckerbrot

Dietitian Tanya Zuckerbrot says eat your fiber, but don't cut out foods There's not a doubt in my mind how healthy consuming fiber is as part of my healthy low-carb lifestyle. When I lost 180 pounds on the Atkins...
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This So-Called Glycemic Index Diet Is A Fake

Basing a diet on the glycemic index sounds good, but is it? It's interesting to see how many diet books have come out in recent years taking portions of the wildly popular Atkins diet and tried to transform them...
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'Rethinking Thin' Sending Dangerous Message To Obese

New York Times journalist asks Americans to begin "Rethinking Thin" We all want it so badly, crave it deeper than even a big slice of the most decadent dessert you could ever imagine, and millions would quite literally do...
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Book Review: Lee Labrada's 'The Lean Body Promise'

Wanna lean body? Lee Labrada says he can get you there in 3 months! We've all heard the saying that if you commit to doing something long enough, then it will very quickly become a habit and a regular...
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The Best Book You'll Ever Read About Diabetes

Dr. Richard Bernstein doesn't just teach, but lives the low-carb way Diabetes is a disease that used to only afflict young children when Type 1 was so dominant. But now it's the 21st Century and Type 2 diabetes hasn't...
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Linking God And Faith With Diet And Health

Dr. Don Colbert applies his Biblical worldview to health While God most certainly played a role in my nearly 200-pound weight loss on the Atkins diet in 2004, you are not necessarily required to be a Christian in order...
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TheDietChannel.com Recommends SUGAR SHOCK! Was the Review By Dietitian Fair Or Accurate? You Decide What Holds True For You

The wonderful, popular website, DietChannel.com -- which bills itself as "An Authoritative Resource for Diet and Fitness Information" -- is now running a review of my book SUGAR SHOCK! from nutritionist Allison Stevens, R.D. (Allison -- a charming dietitian who...
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Did You Know You Need Carbs to Lose Weight? Spotlight on Dr. Mark Hyman's Book, UltraMetabolism

For the past five years, while working on my book SUGAR SHOCK!, I had the pleasure of interviewing some of the most cutting edge health experts out there. One M.D. I interviewed is Dr. Mark Hyman, who not only is...
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Which Chocolate Brand Is Tops In The World Bar None?

I don't know about you, but there's no way in the world I could ever go completely without chocolate in this world. Say what you want about this food, it is one of God's greatest gifts to the human race....
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Book Review: The Checklist by Dr. Manny Alvarez

"Dr. Manny" arms you with informed health information you can use A 37-year old businessman has to leave work early to pass a kidney stone. A 62-year old grandmother keeps turning the television up louder and louder to hear...
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Dr. Gott Must Have Forgot His Diet Manners

A book about avoiding flour and sugar--a low-carber's dream! I live my life by the KISS motto--keep it simple stupid! That's because simplicity is the most effective way to make something as complicated as something like a healthy diet...
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How Good Is A Diabetes Book That Doesn't Share The Low-Carb Option?

Dr. Richard Jackson and Amy Tenderich give diabetics a useful tool Lose 30 pounds. Get your blood pressure down. Lower your LDL cholesterol and triglycerides and get that HDL cholesterol up. Keep an eye on your blood sugar and...
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Book Review: 'The Thinderella Syndrome' By Dr. Dennis Gage

Dr. Dennis Gage says weight loss is more about living than dieting THINDERELLA: Mirror, mirror on the wall, what's the best diet of them all? MIRROR: It's the one you can make your permanent lifestyle change. THINDERALLA: No, seriously,...
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Book Review: The Diet Detective's Count Down By Charles Stuart Platkin

This book helps you understand the consequences of your dietary choices Have you ever caught yourself thinking about how long it would take you to burn off a meal you had just eaten, especially one that was not very...
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Book Review: CARB WARS by Judy Barnes Baker

CARB WARS is a brand new low-carb cookbook releasing on April 1, 2007 Get ready low-carb storm troopers because a brand new low-carb cookbook is coming soon ready to arm you with lots of great low-carb information and recipes...
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You've Got To Be Kidding! The Beer Drinker's Diet?

You can have your beer and drink it too on this "diet" Wouldn't it be great if you could drink unlimited amounts of beer and other alcoholic beverages (if that tickles your fancy) and STILL lose weight? Well, wake...
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Review: The 150 Healthiest Foods On Earth by Dr. Jonny Bowden

Not another drab food book, Bowden highlights the very best Eat this food, it'll make you healthy. Oh, wait a minute, that was yesterday's news. Actually, make sure you DON'T eat this food because it's not as good for...
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Review: SUGAR SHOCK! by Connie Bennett

Connie Bennett's book coming December 26, 2006--PRE-ORDER TODAY! Tens of millions of people in the United States of America every single day willfully expose themselves to one of the most harmful substances that has ever been discovered. This stuff...
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Book Review: The Omnivore's Dilemma

This could very well be the signature book on nutrition in our lifetime We Americans are a strange lot. While we are anal about micromanaging so many of the minute details in our lives--from our finances to our family...
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Book Review: The Spice And Herb Bible

Your resource for everything you want to know about spices and herbs One of the great mysteries in life is how some people seem to have the natural ability to combine food ingredients to make the most delicious meals...
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Book Review: The South Beach Diet Parties and Holidays Cookbook

Healthy low-carb party planning has never been made easier Holidays. What a frightening moment for anyone who is livin' la vida low-carb! These special occasions are the one time that most people let their low-carb plan flail in the...
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Is 'Mindless Eating' Why Weight Loss Is So Elusive?

Can people really be fooled into eating more food than they want? Are you ready to go on a diet that you don't even know you are on? Do you wanna know the secret to cutting down on the...
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EnLITEned Kosher Cooking: Not Just Low-Fat Or Low-Carb, It's Healthy

Good-carb, healthy-fat and sugar-free recipes--AND KOSHER, TOO! Shalom! I come to you today in the name of peace among the nations of low-fat and low-carb by offering to the citizens on both sides of the dietary spectrum an honest...
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Weight Loss Book Uses Quirky Humor To Encourage And Educate

Weight loss is a deeply personal subject that is oftentimes rooted in deep emotional scars that run much deeper than the physical fat that exists. For that reason, Janice Taylor wrote her book entitled "Our Lady Of Weight Loss"...
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You Must Read Julia Havey's 'The Vice-Busting Diet'

I just finished reading the brand new book by Julia Havey entitled "The Vice-Busting Diet" and urge you to order your copy of this amazing book as soon as possible. You might be wondering, "Oh boy, not ANOTHER diet...
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The Literary Genius Of Anthony Colpo

I just finished reading Anthony Colpo's masterpiece "The Great Cholesterol Con" and liken this book to some of the greatest literary works in the history of the world. For Albert Einstein, it was his theory of relativity. For Leonardo...
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Book Review: The Glycemic Load Diet

Cardiologist Dr. Rob Thompson said the focus of too many popular diet plans these day, low-carb ones included, has been almost exclusively on the glycemic index to the extent that the glycemic load has been virtually ignored. That's why...
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Book Review: Every Calorie Counts Cookbook

Has Dana Carpender "sold out" and lost her mind writing a new book about CALORIES after building her entire writing career around the subject of low-carb?! Why has she abandoned us low-carbers like that? If that's what you are...
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Book Review: A Life Unburdened

When you are overweight or obese, sometimes it is difficult to know just how bad your weight problem has gotten to be. For Richard Morris, it had to get REALLY BAD before he even realized he had allowed his...
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Book Review: The Hallelujah Diet

I believe that God can help anyone who desires weight loss to make it happen in their lives if they earnestly ask for His help. But now there's a diet book out there that claims to know HOW God...
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Book Review: The Big Book Of Low-Carb

In the ever-shrinking world of low-carb books that has resulted from book publishers erroneously thinking that low-carb is dead, it's nice to see that a few of them don't mind at all using the term "low-carb" in their titles....
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Book Review: Eat To Live

Don't you just hate when the author of a diet book attempts to conceal what the true motive of his book is really about? Unfortunately, that's exactly what we have here with Dr. Joel Fuhrman's Eat To Live book....
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Book Review: The Total Wellbeing Diet

The hottest diet in Australia right now is one called The Total Wellbeing Diet by a couple of government health officials. But you'll never guess what kind of weight loss plan it is -- LOW-CARB!!! This book curiously avoids...
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Book Review: The Hamptons Diet Cookbook

Dr. Fred Pescatore, the bestselling author of The Hamptons Diet who recently encouraged people on the low-carb lifestyle that they "have not been abandoned," has written a highly-anticipated sequel book chock full of over 200 mouthwatering low-carb recipes for...
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Flax Z Snax Products Tailor-Made For Low-Carbers

There's a name you should know when you are looking for excellent products to eat on your low-carb lifestyle: Flax Z Snax! When you are looking for high-fiber, high-protein, low-carb foods, then you will find the line of products from...
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Review: 50 Secrets Of The World's Longest Living People

With the glut of health, diet, and nutrition books on the market today, how can you cut to the chase and find just one that will tell you what you need to be doing to live a long and...
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Mexican Food Is Back For Low-Carbers!

Na na na na na na, you can't have Mexican food anymore now that you are doing that low-carb thing! HA HA HA! You'll never get to enjoy tacos, taco salads, burritos and nachos ever again. Has anyone ever said...
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New George Stella Book Shows Low-Carb Still Going Strong In 2006

Don't you just love that lovable low-carb chef from The Food Network's "Low Carb and Lovin' It" show? It's the one and only George Stella and he's back with a brand new low-carb book in 2006 (hey, but I...
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Introducing Potato-less Mashed 'Potatoes'

One of the reasons people give me for not going on the low-carb lifestyle is that they believe they couldn't live without potatoes. Besides being the lamest excuse in the world for not doing anything about your health, now there's...
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What About Hemp-Based Low-Carb Products?

There's a company called Nutiva which has manufactured and distributed health products made from the hemp plant in the U.S. since 1999. Yes, the same hemp plant that marijuana is made from, but Nutiva says their products are not harmful...
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Review Of Anti-Atkins Book Sparks Heated Controversy

Earlier this week, I wrote a review of a new diet book by a couple of skinny models who have never had a weight problem in their life. They also happen to be card-carrying members of PETA (People Eating Tasty...
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Special K low carb cereal review

I ran into I Ate A Pie: Health Food Reviews the other day and immediately bookmarked it. A great review of foods if you're on a diet. The other day they reviewed Special K's Low Carb Cereal, which like all...
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NY-style low-carb cheesecake doesn't disappoint

Luscious Living has launched a new low-carb "SophistiCake" cheesecake that CarbWire recently sampled. The New York-style cheesecake has zero net carbs -- but you would never know it. While crustless as you may expect, and with just a hint of...
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New Atkins Morning Start Breakfast Bar flavors

Atkins has expanded its line of Morning Start Breakfast Bars with two new flavors: Trail Mix and Triple Berry. They contain 3 net carbs per bar and will begin showing up in stores in early September. The Trail Mix flavor...
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Total Protein low-carb cereal tastes 'horrid'

This Total Protein review from the Quad-City Times really makes us not want to try the new low-carb cereal, which contains numerous vitamins, 13 grams of protein and 11 grams of carbs per serving. According to Bonnie Leblang, the cereal...
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Seattle Times food critic takes the low-carb challenge

Seattle Times restaurant critic Nancy Leson recently took the low-carb challenge for one week and lost five pounds. She documented her week's worth of meals and what she thought of some popular low-carb products. Leson's low-carb journal is well worth...
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Libations for the low-carb lifestyle

The San Francisco Chronicle has posted a plethora of information and insight on the marriage between low-carb diets and alcoholic beverages. The in-depth article also contains reactions from a panel of four beer drinkers on the latest low-carb beer offerings...
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Boston Globe low-carb taste test

The Boston Globe has published a comparison of 14 popular foods and their low-carb equivalents. The panel of tasters found "a few pleasant surprises but otherwise little to love." The Globe said that in only a few cases were the...
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