Healthy Diet at Home

hello, my name is rachel carr, i'm a wholefoods chef and today i'm going to be showing you how to make a super healthy and deliciouscarrot ginger soup. the first step in making our carrot ginger soup is to get a sauce panand put it on medium heat. let it warm a little bit and us about two tablespoons of oliveoil and get that started heating up. now, as with almost any soup that you make, we'regoing start with sauteing some onions and also some garlic and ginger, just for flavor.we're going to saute the onions until they're a little translucent and they just barelystart to caramelize. i have about four cloves of garlic and about one inch of ginger inthis that i've chopped very finely and i'm just going to throw that in with the onions.going to stir it up. i like to add salt as i cook, it helps you develop the flavor alittle bit more so you don't have to add as much salt at the end to get it to taste theway you want. we're just going to let that sizzle...

(This is part 4 of a multi-part series on How to Tweak a Low Carb Diet . It discusses my weight loss journey so far. If you didn’t read part 1, you can do so by clicking on the how-to link. Part 1 also includes links to the rest of the series.)  I took a quick glance at the archives to see if I could discover exactly when I first started doing the Kimkins Diet back in 2007, but I kept it quiet due to the controversy surrounding that plan. I can remember communicating with Jimmy Moore several times back then, as he was doing the Kimkins Diet himself, but I couldn’t find anything I had actually posted to this blog. People were very emphatic back then that you had to eat a certain amount of dietary fat. You had to eat a ton of protein, and you had to get a certain amount of calories, or you were not doing low carb. Because of these self-made dietary restrictions, these same individuals refused to call Kimkins a low carb diet. They insisted it was a glucose-burning diet, even though it...

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...