What can you give your favorite low-carb friends and family? Paleo Books, Cookbooks and Gifts for Your Favorite Primal or Paleo Loved Ones.

For many people, their shift to a low carb diet has not only changed their health, but their cooking habits - which is to say, they've started cooking. Here are a few cooking tools that this low carber finds endlessly useful.

Low Carb Cookbooks are perfect for the sugar-and-grain averse on your list. Low Carb and Sugar Free Dieters will want some of these great gifts presented by Dana Carpender.

Dana's book, 500 Paleo Recipes, is available and she appreciates all the people who continue to order it. This is her story about how the cookbook came about as well as the history of her move from low carb dieting to the paleo movement.

Cranberries, like most berries, are a low sugar fruit. A whole 12-ounce bag of fresh cranberries - that's what they sell in my grocery store, at any rate - has 167 calories, with 43 grams of carb, 14 of which are fiber. So that whole bag has 29 grams of usable carb in it. Making low carb cranberry sauce is quick and easy. Really, really quick and easy. Dana Carpender shows us how.

Ketogenic diets: additional benefits to the weight loss and unfounded secondary effects.

Dana's Bone Broth Recipe. Naked, picked clean of meat, bones are still tremendously nutritious and remarkably flavorful. How? You simmer them for broth.

Dana Carpender summarizes her trip to the Ancestral Health Symposium 2012 at Harvard. Lessons & inspiration for the low carb & paleo communities.

Happy Low Carb-iversary To Me! 17 Years of Low Carb Success and No Health Issues by Dana Carpender.

My low carb lunch at Chipotle was by far the most satisfying fast food experience I have ever had, with food that was both wonderfully tasty and nutritionally superior. I may have missed Chipotle Mexican Grill up until now, but you can bet I'll be going back again.

Gayelord Hauser, one of the first “health food” advocates, is considered by many to be the father of the modern nutrition movement. Hauser counseled movie stars, including Marlene Dietrich, Gloria Swanson, Grace Kelly, and Paulette Goddard.  He convinced Greta Garbo to give up vegetarianism, insisting on quality protein at every meal.  He wrote many books, and lectured extensively.  He introduced yogurt, wheat germ, brewer’s yeast, blackstrap molasses, and other health food store staples to a white-bread-Coca-Cola-and-Crisco America.

I got basic blood work done recently, and in the interests of full disclosure I felt I ought to share the results with you. I am 53 years old, and have been eating a low carbohydrate diet for 17 years, or 32% of my life.