The Complete & Up-to-Date Carb Book is the next generation in carb management, providing a quick, comprehensive way for savvy dieters to take control of their food intake and smartly manage their health. By learning how to calculate their net carb intake, dieters will not fall prey to the popular fads in dieting today. Bellerson includes information on calories, fiber and sugar grams, and total carb numbers for brand-name and generic foods, fast foods, processed and prepared foods, as well as natural foods and snacks. In all, there are more than 20,000 entries ranging from A to Z. The introductory material explains the glycemic index and how to use it, and the importance of fiber and sugars in calculating carbohydrate values. The strategies outlined here are easily compatible with The Zone, South Beach, and other balanced diet plans.

The American body is in trouble. Unprecedented numbers of us suffer from obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and other debilitating illnesses. The root cause is a once-revolutionary idea that seemed to offer so much promise, but instead has become the cause of a global health crisis: processed foods. Over the past seventy-five years, a number of factors aligned to create a reality in which processed carbohydrates became our main food source. In Fast Carbs, Slow Carbs, bestselling author and former FDA Commissioner David A. Kessler explains how the quest to feed a nation resulted in a population that is increasingly suffering from obesity and chronic disease and offers a solution for changing course. For decades, no one questioned the effects of these processed carbohydrates. The focus was on fertile grassland, ideal for growing vast amounts of wheat and corn; an industrial infrastructure perfect for refining those grains into starch; a food production behemoth that turns refined grains into affordable, appealing, and ever-present food items, from pizza to burritos to bagels; and an efficient distribution network that ensures consumption by Americans nationwide. But during those same decades, our bodies quietly contended with the metabolic chaos caused by consuming rapidly absorbable starch. Slowly but surely, these effects accumulated and became disastrous, leading to the public health crisis in which we find ourselves today. In Fast Carbs, Slow Carbs, Kessler explains how eating refined grains such as wheat, corn, and rice leads to a cascade of hormonal and metabolic issues that make it very easy to gain weight and nearly impossible to lose it. Worse still is how excess weight creates a very real link to diabetes, heart disease, cognitive decline, and a host of cancers. We can no longer afford to dismiss the consequences of eating food that is designed to be rapidly absorbed as sugar in our bodies. Informed by cutting-edge research as well as Dr. Kessler’s own personal quest to manage his weight, Fast Carbs, Slow Carbs reveals in illuminating detail how we got to this critical turning point in our health as a nation—and outlines a plan for eliminating heart disease, allowing us to, finally, regain control of our health.

There is much confusion when it comes to carbohydrates and weight loss. How low is 'low carb'? What is a keto diet and how does it work? Luke Hines understands that there is no one-size-fits-all healthy lifestyle plan and in Smart Carbs he demystifies the different approaches to carbohydrates and helps you understand how to make carbohydrates work for you, depending on your own body, lifestyle and weight-loss goals - how to be smarter about eating carbs! Luke is passionate about creating meals that are packed full of nutrient-dense wholefoods - think seasonal fruits and veggies, sustainable proteins and healthy alternatives to dairy and sugar. It's not about restricting yourself, but finding equally or MORE delicious substitutes for foods that aren't so good for you. These delicious, fuss-free meals will help you increase your energy, lose weight and feel happier and healthier than ever before. In Smart Carbs, the recipes fall into three distinct categories: keto, low carb and sustainable carb, making it easy to construct the perfect meal plan. Every kind of dish is catered for, whether you're looking for a healthy lunch, an indulgent brunch, 'Friday night in' takeaway-style dishes or desserts and cakes to share with the family. Recipes include: *Dark Choc and Pink Salt Thick Shake *Garlic and Rosemary Cauliflower Bread *Keto Mexican Eggs *Gorgeous Green Omelette with Lemon Ricotta *Nasi Goreng *Pumpkin Fritter Stack with Zucchini Hummus *Coconut Cookie Dough Bites *Iced VoVo Slab *Marrakech Skewers *Sexy Salmon Burrito Bowl *Cauliflower Nuggets with Spicy Sriracha Dipping Sauce *Okonomiyaki *Beef Ragu with Easy Pappardelle *NYC Cheese Burger Bowl This is a specially formatted fixed-layout ebook that retains the look and feel of the print book.

Dana Carpender’s NEW Carb Counter is a completely revised and updated version of the bestselling Carb Gram Counter. It includes more than 100 pages of new content, including new and popular brand name products, fast food chains, and restaurants. Each entry contains the serving size amount, calories, total carbs, fiber, net carbs, protein, and fat in the food—making it the perfect reference tool for dieters of all kinds. Better still, any foods with less than five grams of net carbs are featured in bold, so low-carb dieters can easily see those foods that are best for them and their health. Also included are helpful low-carb eating tips, as well as great lists of low-carb snack, treat, and meal ideas, all from best-selling author and low-carb guru Dana Carpender. With Dana Carpender’s NEW Carb Counter in your pocket or purse, everything you need to stay on track and at your healthiest is at your fingertips.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Taubes stands the received wisdom about diet and exercise on its head.” —The New York Times What’s making us fat? And how can we change? Building upon his critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fresh evidence for his claim, bestselling author Gary Taubes revisits these urgent questions. Featuring a new afterword with answers to frequently asked questions. Taubes reveals the bad nutritional science of the last century—none more damaging or misguided than the “calories-in, calories-out” model of why we get fat—and the good science that has been ignored. He also answers the most persistent questions: Why are some people thin and others fat? What roles do exercise and genetics play in our weight? What foods should we eat, and what foods should we avoid? Persuasive, straightforward, and practical, Why We Get Fat is an essential guide to nutrition and weight management. Complete with an easy-to-follow diet. Featuring a new afterword with answers to frequently asked questions.

Molecular Nutrition: Carbohydrates presents the nutritional and molecular aspects of carbohydrates. As part of the Molecular Nutrition includes sections covering carbohydrate metabolism, carbohydrates in the diet, insulin resistance, dietary sugars, cardiometabolic risk, lipoproteins, low-carbohydrate diets, antioxidants, refined dietary sugars, fats, glucose transporters, glucose sensing, the role of phosphorylation, carbohydrate responsive binding protein, cyclic AMP, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors, SIRT1, insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) and GIP receptor (GIPR) genes rRNA and transcription, and more. In addition, the book addresses emerging fields of molecular biology and presents important discoveries relating to diet and nutritional health. Summarizes molecular nutrition in health as related to carbohydrates Addresses emerging fields of molecular biology and presents important discoveries relating to diet and nutritional health Includes key facts, a mini dictionary of terms and summary points