Carpender - 200 low-carb, high-fat recipes : easy recipes to jumpstart your low-carb weight loss

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Digital edition published in 2014

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Carpender, Dana.

200 low-carb, high-fat recipes : easy recipes to jumpstart your low-carb weight loss / Dana Carpender.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-59233-638-8 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-62788-182-1 (eISBN)

1. Low-carbohydrate diet. 2. Low-carbohydrate diet--Recipes. I. Title. II. Title: Two hundred low-carb, high-fat recipes.

RM237.73.C368 2014

641.5'6383--dc23

2014017444

Cover design and book design by Laura H. Couallier, Laura Herrmann Design

The information in this book is for educational purposes only. It is not intended to replace the advice of a physician or medical practitioner. Please see your health care provider before beginning any new health program.

Easy Recipes to Jumpstart your Low-Carb Weight Loss

DANA CARPENDER

This one is for all my pals on the annual Low-Carb Cruise. Its the highlight of my year, truly, and its because you guys are so, so amazing, astonishing, awe-inspiring, and just plain fun.

For my recipe testers, who once again have done yeoman service. Thanks, all of youyoure the best!

And, of course, to Eric Schmitz, That Nice Boy I Married, without whom this stuff wouldnt get done.

L ike many people I meet, Danas entre into the low-carb lifestyle began from personal experience. The low-fat diet she had been advised to follow wasnt workingand her health reflected it. After years of struggling she ditched the then conventional wisdom and adopted a low-carb diet, lost 45 pounds, dramatically improved her health, and never looked back.

Ill never forget meeting Dana on my first Low Carb Cruise. The Low Carb Cruise is an Annual event which brings together 200300 low carb enthusiasts (one could say, "zealots") from around the world to learn about low-carbohydrate research and practical advice about living the lifestyle. Once you meet Dana, I doubt that you will ever forget her direct, "just the facts, Maam," style. She tells it like she sees itwhich makes her cookbooks treasures of practical information. I am grateful to Dana for her prior cookbooksthey have enabled me, my family, and my patients to incorporate healthy low-carb food into our lifestyles.

Why is a clinical research physician and obesity medicine specialist writing a foreword for a cookbook? Because what you eat really matters for your health. I am continually amazed that just by helping people to understand how their bodies respond to what they eat, I can reverse obesity, diabetes, and many other many medical conditions that I used to prescribe medications for as an internal medicine specialist. I can treat, and also prevent, these conditions just by giving advice about how to change the food someone eats. So simpleyet so powerful.

As of 2014, the science supports the low-carb, high-fat lifestyle as a healthy way of eating. From my research and clinical practice, I have come to understand that most peoples bodies run better using fat as a fuel instead of carbohydrate (sugars and starches). When you burn fat as your primary fueland you can do this by eating fat and protein, and low amounts of carbohydrateyour bodys metabolism generates fewer by-products of oxidation, less "exhaust", so to speak. I have spoken about the low-carb, high-fat diet at numerous medical meetings regarding the treatment of obesity, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, polycystic ovary syndrome, and even the "anti-aging" conferences because there are early indications taking sugar and starches out of the diet might slow down the aging process.

The Duke Lifestyle Medicine Clinic was started in 2007 as a natural extension of the research that had been done at Duke University, and then more extensive research happening around the world. My interest in LCHF started as a doctor in a clinictwo of my patients used the Atkins Diet to lose weight, and I thought to myself how easy it would be to use this approach. But, like most physicians, I was skeptical and concerned about the fat in the diet. However if it was indeed safe, I knew that this could be an important tool to treat obesity.

Even today, the most common concern that people express about the low carbohydrate lifestyle is what will happen to their blood cholesterol level by eating all that fat. A whole generation of doctors, dietitians, and the general public were taught that eating fat and cholesterol would raise the bad blood cholesterol and cause heart disease. This was called the "diet-heart hypothesis" and was the theory that spawned the low-fat diet fad. I was privileged to be a part of the recent studies about the LCHF diet. The prediction that LCHF diets would worsen the blood lipid profile didnt come true when they were actually studied. Rather, it revealed that the LCHF diet reduced health risks by lowering the blood triglyceride and raising the good HDL cholesterol. Eating fat raises your good cholesterol!

Today, at the Duke Lifestyle Medicine Clinic, we use the LCHF diet as a therapeutic protocol to reverse most of the chronic medical conditions that are seen today. But LCHF is also a healthy diet that prevents these same chronic medical conditions. My job is to teach LCHF clearly, to taper people off medications as the medical conditions improve, and finally to make sure that people like the foods that they are eating so that they can sustain this way of eating. Because the hunger goes away after a few days of eating LCHF, most people eat less than before, and lose weight if they have excessive fat stores (obesity). The most common reason people come to see me is to lose weight. But LCHF is also excellent as a treatment for diabetes, high blood pressure, gastroesophageal reflux disorder, high blood triglycerides, low blood HDL cholesterol, polycystic ovarian syndrome, irritable bowel diseaseI am continually learning about problems that can be improved by LCHF. Often the improvements that we see are "unbelievable"meaning that other doctors and experts dont believe it. Weight loss of 200 pounds, lowering of blood triglycerides by 900 mg/dl, increasing the good HDL cholesterol of 50 mg/dLdoctors often are in disbelief, and because the studies havent been published, the researchers say it doesnt exist. However, these are the clinical outcomes that we observe.

As of 2014, the mainstream view is changing the focus from "fat is bad" to "sugar is bad." If youve done any reading about low carbohydrate lifestyles, then you will also know that starches are digested into sugar quite efficientlyso limiting starches is just as important as limiting sugars. Rest assured that your body can rely on fat as a fuel and make all of the daily needs of sugar by itself from the fat and protein that you eat.