Healthy Diet at Home

This morning I was taking a stroll through some of the threads over at Low Carb Friends, and I ran into something that really disturbed me. A patient of Dr. Westman was there asking for help. She has been on the high-fat low-carb diet known as Nutritional Ketosis for 4 months now. She is eating 20 carbs or less, is losing about 1 to 2 pounds a week, but she feels horrible. For some reason, she is not adapting to the state of Ketosis. Despite a high salt intake, she's having excruciating foot and leg cramps, gets dizzy, and comes near to passing out during her gym activities. She says she has zero energy, so her gym routine has dropped from 5 days a week and 1 trainer session, to just the training. She is taking magnesium and potassium supplements, along with chicken broth every day, but nothing is helping. She's exhausted and feels horrible, and yet, they want her to continue with the regimen she's been on, even though it's not working for her. That doesn't make an...

clever tricks to train your brain to hatejunk food. by lifebuzzfeed.com if unhealthy, processed food, is sabotagingyour weight loss efforts, outsmart junk food cravings with these clever tricks. why do we crave unhealthy food? weight loss hypnosis, as explained in the recent new york timesmagazine piece, "the extraordinary science of addictive junk food," there's no denyingthat junk food cravings are powerful, physiological reactions—and, apparently, carefully andstrategically developed by food manufacturers. many of our favorite supermarket snacks aremade with the “perfect” amounts of added sugar, salt, fat, and other chemicals designedto make us want more. but you can steer clear of processed foodby eating as many healthy, whole foods as possible, and the less junk food you eat,the less you want. try the following tips and see if they workfor you. 1. practice the five-ingredient rule. if there are more than five ingredients ona food label—a red flag for food pro...

clever tricks to train your brain to hatejunk food. by lifebuzzfeed.com if unhealthy, processed food, is sabotagingyour weight loss efforts, outsmart junk food cravings with these clever tricks. why do we crave unhealthy food? weight loss hypnosis, as explained in the recent new york timesmagazine piece, "the extraordinary science of addictive junk food," there's no denyingthat junk food cravings are powerful, physiological reactions—and, apparently, carefully andstrategically developed by food manufacturers. many of our favorite supermarket snacks aremade with the “perfect” amounts of added sugar, salt, fat, and other chemicals designedto make us want more. but you can steer clear of processed foodby eating as many healthy, whole foods as possible, and the less junk food you eat,the less you want. try the following tips and see if they workfor you. 1. practice the five-ingredient rule. if there are more than five ingredients ona food label—a red flag for food pro...

clever tricks to train your brain to hatejunk food. by lifebuzzfeed.com if unhealthy, processed food, is sabotagingyour weight loss efforts, outsmart junk food cravings with these clever tricks. why do we crave unhealthy food? hypnosis for weight loss, as explained in the recent new york timesmagazine piece, "the extraordinary science of addictive junk food," there's no denyingthat junk food cravings are powerful, physiological reactions—and, apparently, carefully andstrategically developed by food manufacturers. many of our favorite supermarket snacks aremade with the “perfect” amounts of added sugar, salt, fat, and other chemicals designedto make us want more. but you can steer clear of processed foodby eating as many healthy, whole foods as possible, and the less junk food you eat,the less you want. try the following tips and see if they workfor you. 1. practice the five-ingredient rule. if there are more than five ingredients ona food label—a red flag for food...

clever tricks to train your brain to hatejunk food. by lifebuzzfeed.com if unhealthy, processed food, is sabotagingyour weight loss efforts, outsmart junk food cravings with these clever tricks. why do we crave unhealthy food? hypnosis for weight loss, as explained in the recent new york timesmagazine piece, "the extraordinary science of addictive junk food," there's no denyingthat junk food cravings are powerful, physiological reactions—and, apparently, carefully andstrategically developed by food manufacturers. many of our favorite supermarket snacks aremade with the “perfect” amounts of added sugar, salt, fat, and other chemicals designedto make us want more. but you can steer clear of processed foodby eating as many healthy, whole foods as possible, and the less junk food you eat,the less you want. try the following tips and see if they workfor you. 1. practice the five-ingredient rule. if there are more than five ingredients ona food label—a red flag for food...

How to Plan the Perfect Low-Carb Fourth-of-July Celebration (Photo by Jeffrey Kontur ) If you’re following a low-carb diet, you can still have a fantastic Fourth-of-July celebration without having to worry about popping yourself out of Ketosis. You don’t have to sit on the sidelines or deprive yourself of holiday goodies either. With picnics and barbecue parties the most popular ways of celebrating America’s freedom and independence, it’s easy to surround yourself in colors of red, white, and blue – yet still maintain control over those carbs! All it takes is a little bit of thought and preparation. With that in mind, you don’t want to wait until next Tuesday morning to start figuring out how to stay on plan. If you do, you’ll end up with a plain bun-free burger or hotdog, a boring lettuce salad, a handful of pork rinds, and maybe a few strawberries for color. Eating that way when everyone else around you is chowing down on potato salad, baked beans, corn-on-the-cob, and colorful cupc...

♪♪♪ when it comes to nutrition,i rely heavily on the research that's been publishedin journals and done by scientists allover the world. but just because something'sbeen discovered in the lab does not mean that it'snecessarily gonna carry over into the real world. so i test it on myselfand thousands of people who follow my advice. so with all that data, i'm ableto sort of bring it all together into the best nutritionadvice that's out there. with the nutrition programfor "shortcut to shred," it's all based onmacronutrients. getting the protein tocomplement the recovery from the training helps you to buildmore strength and muscle. that's gonna keep youalso burning more body fat. in the "shortcut to shred"program, the macronutrients are ranked protein first,fat is actually second, and then carbs comein third place. protein is the most criticalmacronutrient on the "shortcut to shred" programfor the simple fact that muscle is m...