Tips from gaining health

Sweet readers! I apologize for being kind of AWOL this week. (No Wednesday article! Ack.) Wedding planning is starting to really kick in, and our world is slowly being consumed by strapless bras and canapés. How did people do this before Excel spreadsheets?

Still, it’s a strong round of links this week with various tutorials, a coupla neat new sites, and a dashing finale. (Hint: The Old Spice Guy is involved.) Enjoy!

1) Wise Bread: 50 Healthy Foods for Under $1 a Pound
Wise Bread wins. They just do. (Pic from Natalie Dee.)

2) Washington Post: Kentucky town of Manchester illustrates national obesity crisis
If you’ve ever wondered how obesity affects and why it prevails in small towns, this moving, in-depth account of Manchester is the piece to read. The line about the intersection will tell you just about everything.

3) Casual Kitchen: Knowing When Not to Be a Food Snob
Sadly, the anonymity of the interwebs often means we foodies come off like raving packs of Comic Book Guys. (“Worst. Recipe. Ever.”) When do we hold back? When is it okay to unleash our inner elitists? Dan uses a fairly recent piece by Ratio guy Michael Ruhlman to discuss.

4) Surviving and Thriving: A big meal plus leftovers for less than a buck. (Hint: Let others do most of the cooking.)
Donna Freedman waxes poetic about potlucks. Most helpful? This gem: “Deviled eggs are a big hit because everybody loves them and nobody likes to make them.” Truer words, never spoken.

5) Urlesque: Annoying Cooks on the Web – a Field Guide
The title is a tad misleading; it should really be “15 Reviewers You Meet on Community Recipe Sites.” My favorite, and the one that makes me most crazy: The Ingredient Switcher. To wit: “I hated this recipe! I followed the instructions to a T but instead of white flour I used cornstarch and I swapped the honey for chili powder. It was terrible"

6) New York Times: Hungry Girl Offer a Real Take on Diet Foods
NYT’s (first?) profile of Lisa Lillien echoes a running theme in almost all HG articles. The author is clearly wary of her endorsements and use of processed foods, but has to maintain a respectful tone out of deference to Lillien’s bagillions of followers. Despite that, it’s still one of the better Hungry Girl pieces I’ve seen.

7) The Kitchn
10 Things to Eat When You Return From Vacation
Quick, Easy Ways to Get More Vegetables Into My Diet?
You think you’re so cool, don’t you, The Kitchn? “Blah blah blah here’s another positive, incredibly helpful and thoughtful post with a bunch of pictures that put Ansel Adams to shame blah blah blah.” Yeah, we getcher point. Punks.

8) Kitchen Myths
Oodles of Alton Brown-type cooking myths, busted in no-nonsense style, presented ing Internet-circa-1996 style. I give this three Bill Clinton heads out of a possible four.

9) Marketplace: Farmers Market Guide – 20 Cities, Coast to Coast
Ooo … handy!

10) Bargaineering: How to Dry Fresh Herbs
Just in time! We inherited our friends’ CSA shipment this week, and it came with the most enormous bag of tarragon you’ve ever seen in your whole puff. Anyone for some Tarragon Pops?

HONORABLE MENTION

Jim’s Pancakes
Oh, yay! It’s amazing what you can do with a little food dye and some hungry children.

The Kitchn: Zucchini At Your Door? 12 Recipes to Help Eat It Up
Again? Again with the practical deliciousness? Harrumph.

Promo Machine UK: Discount Design - 23 Fantastically Vintage Coupons
Who wants $0.07 off a box of Life cereal?

Village Voice: Americans Getting Too Fat for Theater Seats
Hey! We’re still fat! Whee! On a related note: Has anyone seen Twilight: Eclipse? My sister and I have three questions:

1. Why are these two supernatural, smokin’ hot dudes fighting over The Most Boring Woman in the World?
2. Why is being turned into a vampire so bad? You live forever, receive awesome powers, and still get to have sex. I don’t see the downside here.
3. Where was the eclipse?

AND ALSO

New York Times: On Facebook, Telling Teachers How Much They Meant
God, I love this story. Mr. Leogrande, this one’s for you.

BoingBoing: Goodbye Old Spice Guy
I will miss you most of all. SWAN DIVE!



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According to this CNN article, its naïve for the Disease Management Care Blog to expect U.S. Presidents to never lie. From time to time, political realities force occupants of the Oval Office to use falsehoods to advance a greater good and/or protect the integrity of their office.  Whats more, when theyre found out, voters tend to be remarkably forgiving. So, When Mr. Obama repeatedly reassured Americans that "you can keep your health insurance," the DMCB should conclude that this was business-as-usual statecraft and that it will all work out.

But even if many Americans sign up for health insurance and the President rebuilds his approval ratings, the contrarian DMCB has a deeper concern.

It thinks a dishonest "tone at the top" can have a corrosive effect on how Americans will access their premium subsidies. 

In the business world, it is well known that the misbehavior of corporate boards and C-suite leaders can infect an entire company. The Board Chairs or the CEOs dubious financials, revenue schemes, stock manipulation, predatory behavior or just plain arrogance can roll right through the managerial ranks and destroy a company in a matter of months. When leaders lie to serve some other business need, you can be sure that others in the company will also lie.

The same may be true for the government of the United States. Its one thing to lie about Japans military might (Roosevelt), trading arms for hostages (Reagan) or Iraqs weapons of mass destruction (Bush), its quite another to lie about buying health insurance. The DMCB suspects that "tone of the Oval Office" is subtly signaling to regulators, insurers and ultimately consumers that its OK to manipulate the truth when it comes to buying health insurance.

Recall that as part of health orm, the health insurance exchanges prompt applicants to estimate future income. Its also temptingly easy to misrepresent projected 2014 income.  A mild "fudge" that lowballs income can make the difference of thousands of dollars in subsidies.

Long before the President landed in hot water over his "you can keep it" promise, Americans had a huge incentive to lie about their income. That has been especially true for low income earners who really need the insurance. Now that everyone - including Mr. Obama - has admitted that he stretched the truth, the DMCB suspects Americans now have one more reason to do the same when it comes to getting health insurance subsidies. Once that pattern of insurance fraud becomes established in the marketplace, the DMCB thinks it will never go away and hundreds of millions of dollars will go to where its not intended year after year after year.

The DMCB predicts tens of thousands of Americans who purchase insurance on the exchanges will succumb to lying in 2014.

You read it here first. 

Coda: The good news is that when it comes to the health insurers who are responsible for signing up the millions of Americans, theres no evidence that theyre helping enrollees lie.  The DMCB suspects that in the battle to capture market share, its just a matter of time until one of them has a renegade employee or two who channel the President and likewise help prospective customers to lie. Well see.

Hi team CHG! Gonna keep this one a little short today, so I may bask in the glorious shiny thing thats planted itself in the middle of the sky. Yes, Im talking about the alien ship. We are theirs now, and I, for one, greet our green-gilled overlords.

1) The Atlantic: The World-Class Local Foods That Gardeners Have Overlooked
Neat, neat piece by Hunger Angler Gardner Cook blogger Hank Shaw about oft-ignored food that grows in the wild. Groundnuts, ho!

Wiki - Ansel Adams

2) New York Times: Itinerant Life Weights on Farmworkers Children
The families who pick our vegetables have children who must go to school. Only, they have it way, way, way tougher than other kids.

3) Oregon Live: The pantry principle - Serve up easy dinners by cooking what you have
I love the Oregonians food articles because theyre always way thoughtful and extensive. This ones another winner.

4) Grub Street: Americas Next Great Restaurant (Recap)
Why watch the show when David Rees recaps are so much fun?

5) Huffington Post: Giving Back - How You and the Food Community Can Help Struggling Families
Marcus Samuelsson says: Buy local. But with more words and better explanations.

6) Diner’s Journal: The DIY Cooking Bibliography
Love this link roundup of make-it-yo-dang-self blogs, focusing on food and the kitchen. Especially helpful if youre into preserving.

7) Food Politics: Soda companies vs. soda taxes - breathtaking creativity
Though their products are almost always mentioned as part of the reason for the rise in obesity, Pepsi, Coke, and similar businesses are making huge contributions toward anti-obesity initiatives. And the cycle continues.

8) Wise Bread: Affordable Sustainable Seafood Choices for Your Table
Nice little roundup with some unexpected suggestions. (Seaweed!) Also worthy of notice: squid, clams, sardines and anchovies, as well as various other shellfish and some cephalopods.

9) Casual Kitchen: An Easier Way to Crack an Egg - Blunt Force Trauma
Love the title, love the process.

10) Money Saving Mom: My Stock-Up Price List
Crystal finally shares what shell pay for food. We are rank amateurs, people.

HONORABLE MENTIONS

The Epi-Log: Best Recipes for New Teen Vegetarians?
Chili! Chili!

Food Politics: Once again, kids per foods in packages with cartoons
Um … duh?

Serious Eats: What You Should Know About the Primer
"The Farm Bill, formally titled the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act, is a huge piece of legislation. Its 15 titles outline policies ranging from crop subsidies to agricultural research to nutrition programs." Will it be affected by the newfangled initiatives towards healthier eating? Remains to be seen.

Words to Eat By: Food Swap in The New York Times
Yay Deb!

AND ALSO

Endless Simmer: 100 Ways to Cook with Guinness
Guinness: Its not just for drinking anymore. You can eat it now, too.

From Wiki Commons Koolgiy

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Today, its lots of righteous indignation, a little Homer Simpson, and a kitteh who vastly overestimates his jumping skills.

1) Consumerist: This is What You Eat
Neatorama: Average Daily Food Intake of Homer Simpson
Ever wonder what your normal, everyday American eats in a full year? This colorful, easy-to-read graphic breaks it down. Somewhat sadly, we consume almost as much dairy as we do produce. Somewhat happily, we scarf much less floor pie than Homer Simpson.

2) Salon: Why is America So Fixed on Food Fads?
Fantastic exploration of the links between U.S. food fads (Cakeballs! Bahn Mi! Pork belly!) and our “frontier mentality,” a mix of breaking immigrant traditions and embracing scientific developments. Another great piece by Riddhi Shah, who is quickly becoming a favorite around here.

3) Washington Post: Michelle Obama – A Food Bill We Need
MObama argues for the passage of the Child Nutrition Bill, a major step in addressing the obesity problem amongst kids. How can anyone can be opposed to this? (I’m looking at you, Laura Ingraham.) Healthier kids = good thing.

4) stonesoup: The Minimalist Guide to Cooking With Herbs
Ooo! It’s Herbs 101, including a guide to common varieties, substitutes, preparation, and storage. Very handy for rosemary lovers. (And, coincidentally, Rosemary Clooney lovers.)

5) Salon: Does High Fructose Corn Syrup Cause Cancer?
In which Francis Lam argues (with Marion Nestle’s backup) that it’s not necessarily the kinds of sugar we consume, but the quantities in which we consume them. Empty calories are empty calories the world over, it turns out.

6) The Atlantic Food: The Combo Meal Mindset
Lest we forget the restaurant industry is, in fact, a luxury business (so to speak), Hank Cardello reminds us: “[It] cannot be expected to lead the charge to slim down America.”

7) Wall Street Journal: Michael Pollan Explains the Math of Buying $8 Eggs
Yeah, it’s another Pollan interview. But this one’s worth the read! I promise! The Big Man of Berkeley lays out his own eating and shopping habits, highlighting some good buying strategies along the way. Peaches!

8) Chicago Tribune: Grains make gains - Wheat surpasses white in sliced bread sales
Yay! Whole wheat products are great! Right?

9) Consumerist: Whole Grain Wheat Things Are No Healthier Than Regular Ones
Oh, wait. Nope.

10) Daily Mail UK: Junk food starts allergies - Western high-fat diets are blamed for surge in illnesses
Hey! Scientists “found evidence that industrialised Western diets high in red meat, sugar and fat lowered the numbers of healthy bacteria in our guts,” and contributed to the skyrocketing allergy rate among first-world countries. Cue sad trombone.

HONORABLE MENTIONS

The Kitchn: 13 Ways to Use Cucumbers
They’re here! They’re on sale! They’re meant for more than salads!

Money Saving Mom: Credit Cards Hurt More Than Just Your Own Personal Finances
I had no idea a small charge cost businesses money to process. Interesting stuff.

Slashfood: Lunch Ladies Go to Summer School
Your kids’ cafeteria food is about to get way better, with pro chefs staging lunch lady boot camps all over the country. Hairnets, unite!

Village Voice: What I Eat - Around the World in 80 Diets
A few years ago, Time Magazine had a fantastic slideshow called What the World Eats, based on a book by the same name. Now, the authors are coming out with another book, called Around the World in 80 Diets, and it looks like it will be just as neato. The Voice piece is a solid summary of the contents therein.

AND ALSO

Youtube: Funny Kitten Can’t Jump
Oh no! Also: hee.



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This week, its lots of pretty pictures, a gaggle of perspectives on a failed Soda Tax, and two very off-the-beaten-path takes on vegetarianism. Excelsior!

1) Dark Roasted Blend
Kitchen Appliances That Bite
Spectacularly Creative Ads, Issue 13
I loathe the overuse of “amazing,” but Dark Roasted Blend’s image roundups always merit the word. The first comp is full of cool, newfangled cooking equipment, while the second is another installation in a running series of ads. Both are totally worth the 15-minute coffee break.

2) Tip Hero: Little Known Uses for Fruit Peels, Shells, and Seeds
Holy moly! My fellow frugal foodies, you’re gonna LOVE this piece. It turns out that peanuts, avocados, bananas, pomegranates, and more are way useful beyond their edible flesh. Read it and cheer.

3) Kitchen Bitsch: On Carnivore Guilt
In which author Summerlin, the daughter of a farmer, finds herself torn between her appreciation for meat and her affection for the animals she’s raised.

4) Zachary Burt: Vegetarians Are Just Big Pussies
In which author Zach, decries his former Real Men Eat Meat perspective and embraces vegetarianism.

5) Salon: Men eat meat, women eat chocolate - How food gets gendered
Beef is manly. Wine is for the ladies. If you ever wondered if these stereotypes were the product of genetics, evolution, culture, or really good advertising, read this now. Riddhi Shah’s thoughtful piece raises good questions, and provides a few good answers, as well.

6) Village Voice: Soda Tax Dies As Beverage Industry Outspends Health Groups
I don’t know whether this is a health travesty or a triumph of individual will, but New York defeated the proposed levy on soda (or pop, for you Buffalonians). Somewhat non-shockingly, the beverage industry may have had a massive hand in its downfall. Marion Nestle and Casual Kitchen’s Dan give their thoughts.

7) The Simple Dollar: Nine Tactics That Work for Starting Food Preparation at Home
Can’t bring yourself to cook in your own kitchen? Convinced takeout is cheaper? Hate chopping? Trent has a handful of simple strategies to make the eat-at-home process much easier. (Siblings of mine! Read this!)

8) New York Times: Triumph of the Egg
Wondering how hot it’s been in NYC? The Times crew cooked breakfast on the sidewalk. Mmm … concrete-flavored omelet.

9) Politics of the Plate: An Offer Americans Can—And Will—Refuse
I’ve debated getting into the illegal immigrant brouhaha on this blog, because it’s generally a happy, bi-partisan, la-la-la kind of place, and I’m not sure I want to interrupt that. But man, I love the third story here.

10) Wise Bread: Organic Groceries on a Budget
Love these out-of-the-box tips and tricks for buying pesticide-free foods. Myscha Theriault’s ideas go beyond the average organics post.

HONORABLE MENTIONS

4 Hats and Frugal: Cooking Frugally When You Don’t Want to Cook at All
Amiyrah comes through with some clever tips for summertime meals. “Burritos are my best friends.” Hear, hear, woman!

BoingBoing: Sugar Information explains how sugar wont make you fat
This is so Mad Men, I can hardly stand it. You can practically see Don Draper (handsome, morally questionable, handsome Don Draper) dictating the idea to Peggy and Paul. (Pic from AdPulp.)

HuffPo: The Price of Cheap Meat
Hey! CAFOs killed a lake in Ohio. *cries*

Neatorama: Mapping Your Broiler
There’s a fine line between genius and mania, and it’s up to you to decide where this one falls: Cook’s Illustrated figured out a way to test your broiler’s cool and hot spots, using a grid of burnt and toasted bread.

Real Simple: How Long is it Okay to Freeze Food?
Quick-n-dirty guide to cold food lifespans.

Salon: How to Choose a Watermelon
Woo hoo! It’s watermelon season! Francis Lam teaches us how to pick a good one.

Seattle Times: Q&A With Michael Pollan
The CHG guarantee: Wherever Pollan speaks, we will link to it.

stonesoup: How to Eat for $2 a Day
Stoney lives under the international poverty line for a 24 hours. The food is good, but doesn’t provide for much produce and/or variety.

Trust for America’s Health: F as in Fat - How Obesity Threatens Americas Future 2010
Hey! We’re still fat! Sigh.

Unplggd: 14 Home Hacks for Your Dishwasher
Behold: the all-powerful dishwasher. You can clean a keyboard in it.

AND ALSO

Raw Toast Design
Husband-Elect and I discovered Raw Toast at a recent craft show in Brooklyn, and developed a huge, googly-eyed affection for Jesse Kuhn’s illustrations. They’re elegant but funny, and whimsical but pointed. Affordable prints are on sale at the RT website, and moms – quite a few would go well in a kid’s room. Definitely check it out if you get the chance.


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Sorry for the delay today, folks. I was wrestling with a giant schnauzer. (Note: she won.) Without further ado...

1) Food Politics: White House Task Force on Obesity Reports in
I like to think the WHTAO is a top secret gang of data-obsessed ninjas, counting statistics with an abacus and distributing surveys via Chinese throwing star. Oh, also this post is very interesting. (Solution-based government! How novel.)

2) Evil Mad Scientist: How to Kick Ass and Take Names in the Spice Aisle
If those very same ninjas had an organizing system for their spices, this is what it would look like.

3) Live Cheap: 5 Sneaky Ways Grocery Stores Take You For More Money
My local supermarket does the last one. It drives me nuts. Comparing quarts to liters to ounces for the same essential product is a pain in the ninja.

4) Serious Eats: 10 Secrets for Making the Most of Your CSA
Curiously missing? #11: Get a rabbit. (But seriously, these are good ideas, with a solid comment thread following.)

5) Christie’s Corner: 5 Basic Elements of Salad Dressing
They’re not high fructose corn syrup, faux raspberry flavor, sodium caseinate, hydrogenated soybean oil, and polysorbate 60? The deuce you say! (Thanks to Casual Kitchen for the link.)

6) The Kitchn: 5 Tips for Grocery Savings at Reclaimed Freight Centers
I’d never heard of reclaimed freight centers before reading this, but these TJ Maxxes of the food world seem like wonderful places to save a few bucks. Print this list out and get going.

7) Huffington Post: Good Food Is Not (Only) a Class Issue
Why do we eat cheap, processed food, when we know it’s not good for us? Lee Zukor knows.

8) Eat Me Daily: Why I Quit Cooking - Women in the Kitchen
As it pertains to cooking and cheffery: “Do women have a responsibility to improve the perceived status of their gender through working certain (influential, well-regarded) jobs, or does feminism mean that women have the luscious and heady freedom to pursue whatever career they choose?”

9) Wise Bread: 29 Alternative Pizza Sauce Ideas
Carrot puree? Vegan white sauce? Olive tapenade? What the WHAT? I don’t know, but I want some on my pizza.

10) Eat Humane
Listed at #10 because it’s a whole site versus a single post, this online guide to eating ethically could be your new best friend. Presuming your old best friend was also a webpage, of course.


HONORABLE MENTION

Consumerist
As Consumer Demand Recovers, Meat Prices are Going Up
Subways Lawyers Tell Rest Of World To Stop Selling "Footlong" Sandwiches
Link #1: Time for more veggies.
Link #2: What word will be next? “Subway”? “Fresh-baked”? ”Freaky Cheese Triangles”?

Get Rich Slowly: The One-Year Wardrobe Project
JD stuck all his clothes in another room for one year, only taking out what he needed to wear. By year’s end, he had 37 shirts and sweaters left untouched. Really interesting piece about what we own vs. what we actually use. (Photo from Planet Green.)

The Kitchn
What is the Shelf Life of Flavoring Extracts?
Whats the Difference? Soba, Udon, and Rice Noodles
Link #1: Vanilla - to infinity and beyond. Everything else - less than that.
Link #2: Good question!

LA Weekly: Top 10 Simpsons Food References
No Tomacco? Aw, that’s okay. Any list that references a Flaming Moe is good by me.

Money Saving Mom: The Depends Dilemma: Why I Buy Items I Won’t Use (Guest Post)
I’ve always wondered about this. The answer: to get faboo deals and donate lots without blowing wads of cash.

Simple Bites: Stocking Your Pantry for Success
Among the better pantry posts I’ve seen, with lots of helpful links.

Slashfood: USDA Updates Standards for Poultry Safety
S’about time! Now the Great Brooklyn Chinese Food Disaster of 2009 may not be repeated. (*lights candle for intestines*)

Surviving and Thriving: Dr. Demento and the desecrated turkey
One turkey for a whole person? You better believe it.

Time Out New York Kids: Feed a Family of Four for $10 a Day
Here’s fun secret about NYC: folks complain about how expensive groceries are, but … theyre not. I swear. Especially compared to the rest of the country. We have fewer discount stores, sure, but if you know how to shop, you should be just fine. Debbie Koenig demonstrates.


AND ALSO

S**t My Kids Ruined
Are you trying to convince your teenager not to have sex? This should do it. Especially: May 9th (Vaseline, Desitin, and powder), May 7th (permanent marker boy), April 26th (poor fish), March 13th (nice face, turkey), and March 4th. (How do you even draw on a dog?)


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The perfume market is so vast it can be difficult to choose the best fragrances that suit your own unique personality. Perfume is important for making us feel confident and attractive, so it is essential to ensure you spend that little bit of extra time choosing the right one for you.

The first thing to consider is where and when you will be wearing the fragrance. It is a good idea to have a couple of perfumes to choose from. One which is quite light and fresh for during the day, and a stronger one for evening wear. A perfume with a strong smell can be quite overwhelming, so best to keep it for your nights out.

Fragrances tend to vary on how they smell on different people, so dont assume that if a perfume smells nice on someone else, it will necessarily smell the same on you. If in doubt, ask a friend to tell you how the perfume smells before making any purchases.

Consider the types of fragrances you like the smell of – it could be vanilla, coconut, roses or many more. This can go a long way to helping you decide on the best perfumes to suit you, so check the ingredients and find out if they have the fragrances you would normally enjoy.

It may seem a little bold, but if you smell any perfumes you like on other people, why not ask them what it is? This saves you the hassle of having to try out lots of difference fragrances, as you already know you like it. (Don’t forget it is still a good idea to get a friend to advise you on how it smells on you!)

When you try any perfumes, dont just spray it and decide straight away that you like or dont like it. The smell will take a while to become absorbed into your skin, so wait for at least 10 seconds before deciding if it is the one for you. Always spray it on your wrist – it is more difficult to judge the power of the fragrance from sprayed from the bottle.

The size of your budget will determine which type of perfumes you choose to opt for. There is no need to spend a fortune on your fragrances, as you can find a lot of great, nicely priced perfumes if you shop around. No matter how much or little you have to spend, you will be able to find fragrances to suit.

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Roxanne Taylor lives in Lancashire in the North East of England in the UK and works in partnership with Perumeplusdirect http://www.perfumeplusdirect.co.uk/, an innovative and fashionable shopping web site for perfumes cosmetics and fragrances.


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The main idea behind this approach to eating is to reduce spikes in blood sugar. Hence the name slow carb diet. By keeping blood sugar in control, a whole cascade of metabolic responses stays in balance. These are mostly centered around certain key protein hormones such as insulin, adiponectin, growth hormone, IGF-1, leptin, and ghrelin. This is a short list that entails an amazing milieu of hormones that respond to what you eat or dont eat.

The most important premise behind this diet is to avoid starchy or sugary foods and beverages that rapidly spike blood sugar. The more obvious and most common of these are bread and other refined flour products, anything with added sugar, potatoes, and sodas.

This list of foods would be a great start, and a truly delicious one, for an eating plan that guarantees wonderful results for lifetime weight management.

Recommended Foods:

Eggs
All meat (Beef, pork and poultry NOT treated w/hormones or antibiotics)
Turkey bacon, organic bacon, organic sausages
All fish, seafood (canned is fine)
All beans (chickpeas and peas in moderation)
All vegetables (except potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams)
Hot sauce
Salsa w/o sugar
Any oil (Olive oil, macadamia nut oil, grapeseed oil, coconut oil preferred)
Butter
Spices & herbs
Mustard
Non-creamy low-sugar dressings
Brown rice protein, hemp protein, pea protein
Unflavored whey protein isolate
Unsweetened cocoa
Vanilla extract
Stevia (liquid or powder with little or no carb filler)

What You Can Expect

Depending on your starting weight, your fasting blood glucose level, and a number of other variables, you can expect to drop up to 20 pounds within the first month on the slow carb diet. However, not everyone achieves this result. The fun comes in solving for variables that slow down or prevent progress, then adapting your strategy accordingly.

The most important step to take is the first one - i.e., getting started on the right foods and eliminating the wrong ones. If you make good progress right away, great! That is wonderful incentive to keep at it. If you hit a plateau, then equally great! That is an opportunity for discovering what it is about your particular metabolism that you still need to address.

In that regard, finding out about some of the other influences on your weight might be be helpful, which can be found in my Belly Fat Book, at no cost to you.

CARDIO ALONE CAN SLOW YOUR METABOLISM: Strength training will

have more impact on fat-burning than cardio since it builds lean muscle

mass that increases the metabolism. If you only do cardio, your body

will burn both fat and muscle, which will actually lower your metabolism.



AVOID FOODS WITH CORN SYRUP: Austin refers to corn syrup.

Since our body doesn’t know how to metabolize it, it causes

our liver to produce fat that can lead to weight gain.



STRENGTH TRAINING BURNS MORE CALORIES THAN CARDIO:

After strength training, your body spends the next 48 hours repairing

small muscle tears. Because of this, your body burns more total

calories from strength training than cardio.



TRY AEROBIC EXERCISE ON AN EMPTY STOMACH TO

LOSE WEIGHT: Try this when you first wake up. During sleep, your glucose storage is depleted, and since your body must first burn off glucose before it burns fat, now is a good time to get your body straight to the fat-burning phase. A brisk 40-minute walk at 120 beats per minute will do the trick.



LYING DOWN OR SITTING DURING STRENGTH TRAINING MAKES YOUR WORKOUT INEFFICIENT: By just standing up and using your own body weight for resistance in all directions, you will engage nearly all of your 600-plus muscles and maximize your strength-training efforts.