Healthy Diet at Home

john: this is john kohler with okraw.com.today we have another exciting episode for you and this one's very exciting for me andshould be for you guys too since i have a special guest on my show today. i'm here withdr. joel fuhram. he's one of the guys i look up to and i follow his dietary advice andwould encourage you guys also to follow his dietary advice as well. he has books on howto reverse diabetes and heart disease and how to get kids to eat healthy.one of the main things he teaches besides just eating a plant based diet or a starchedbased diet, which are important, he takes it to the next level, right and i want youguys to take your diet to the next level as well by eating a nutrient dense or what dr.fuhrman calls nutritarian diet. so in this episode we're going to ask dr. fuhrman whyit's important to not just eat a plant based diet, but to more importantly eat a nutrientdense diet or nutritarian diet. so dr. fuhrman, what would say?dr. fuhrman: thank you. in...

Why Does a Low-Carb Diet Stop Working? A low-carb diet plan is an effective weight-loss tool because it promotes satiety and teaches us the importance of eating nutrient-dense foods. We learn how our prior eating habits contributed to our present metabolic situation. We learn that our personal metabolic defects can cause us to crave the very foods that create these imbalances. We also learn that changing our diet can literally correct those imbalances and change our lives. However, for many dieters, counting carbohydrates and staying within a certain daily allotment isn’t enough to achieve success. In my own case, the problem with not losing weight on a low-carb diet can be traced to a variety of issues: hidden food sensitivities celiac disease leaky gut syndrome endocrine disruptors fat malabsorption probably excessive ASP and who knows what else But weight-loss problems are never the same for everyone. In general, the closer you get to goal weight, the more important calorie counting...

(This is part 2 of a multi-part series on How to Tweak a Low Carb Diet . If you didn’t read part 1, you can do so by clicking on the how-to link.) When I started low carbing in January 2007, the 2002 version of Atkins was considered the bible of low carb dieting. However, even among those who proclaimed you HAD to follow that version by the book, they were using the latest Atkins Nutritionals’ (ANA) recommendations to override the book’s instructions. So if you were not eating a minimum of 20 net carbs per day on Induction and getting the greater majority of those carbs from vegetables (12 to 15 net carbs per day), you were either blasted for not doing Atkins, or you were written off as someone who was playing an I-am-on-a-diet game. You were also counseled to spend the majority of your calories on consuming tremendous amounts of fat. Those calories had to be a minimum of ten times your current weight in order to avoid starvation mode. You had to drink a minimum of eight glasses of pur...