Low Carb Foods - Article List

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Understanding Carbs To Stay Healthy

Low carb diets are popular. How good are they? How healthy are they? It all depends on what you know about the difference between different types of carbohydrates. Common table sugar represents 20 to 25 percent of the daily caloric intake of

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Introduction To Low Carb Dieting

To help with weight issues and for overall improved health, many people turn to diets. In fact, government statistics show that while about 65 percent of Americans are overweight, 38 percent are actually doing something about it. That leaves 27% who aren't

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Low Carb Foods And Your Health

The latest diet craze that's sweeping the nation deals with low carb foods. It seems that every other star in Hollywood is on some low carbohydrate diet or other, and endorsing it with a ferocity only matched by the amount of money entering their bank account

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Low Carb Diet Terms:

Soluble fiber food sources - include legumes, (peas, soybeans, and other beans), oats, some fruits (esp. apples, bananas) and berries, certain vegetables (esp. broccoli and carrots), root vegetables (e.g., potatoes and yams, but the skins are insoluble fiber), and psyllium seed.
1 lb of fat (454 g) - approximately equal to 3500 food calories.
Pritikin Diet - a low-fat, high carbohydrate diet similar to the Atkins diet, based on the theory that we have an instinct to eat fat that was developed in the early days of man. It is alleged that the ready availability of fat now causes us to instinctively overeat it.
Banned weight loss products (U.S. FDA) - FDA has banned 111 ingredients once found in over-the-counter diet products. These substances, which contain alcohol, caffeine, dextrose, and guar gum, have not proved effective in weight-loss or appetite suppression.
Eating disorder - a mental illness in which the main problem is a person eats in a way which disturbs their physical health.