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Miracle Noodle – Low Carb, Gluten Free Shirataki Glucomannon Pasta

Miracle Noodles

Miracle Noodle Low Carb, Gluten Free Guilt-free shirataki noodles. Zero net carb & zero calories. Easily absorbs the flavors of any soup, dish, or sauce. Cooks instantly - just drain, rinse, boil, and enjoy! Has shown beneficial effects backed by medical studies for Type II Diabetes, Constipation, Obesity, and Cholesterol!

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Low Carb Mornay Sauce – Budget Low Carb Cooking Base

Mornay Sauce

This is such a simple sauce and so elegant. It works over chicken, turkey, game hens, and seafood of all kinds, especially shrimp and lobster - when they are on sale! It's also delicious over veggies! The nuttiness of the sauce is intensified when you broil it for a couple of minutes.

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Turkey Carcass Stock – Budget Low Carb Cooking Base

Turkey Carcass Stock

Make this stock right after Thanksgiving dinner! Simply throw the turkey carcass and any leftover wings, necks, giblets, and legs into the pot with the veggies and spices, then let it simmer, covered, for hours! The longer the better. The apple cider vinegar helps leach the vitamins and minerals out of the bones.

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Wheat Belly Book Review by Dana Carpender

I have read a big ol' pile of nutrition books in the past 33 years. I generally learn at least a little something from each one, or at the very least am reminded of a point I may have forgotten. But in his new book Wheat Belly, Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist from Milwaukee, and author of Track Your Plaque, and the Heart Scan Blog has written a book in which the majority of the information is new to me. I am agog. And excited - I am a big nutrition geek, after all; it's thrilling to have this sort of stuff presented to me, and presented in such a readable form.

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Pot, Meet Kettle – The Hope Warshaw/Diabetes Health Controversy by Amy Dungan

Diabetes Health recently published an article by diabetes expert Hope Warshaw that has stirred up quite a hornet's nest in the low carb community. In her piece titled Type 2 Diabetes: From Old Dogma to New Realities, Warshaw discusses what she believes are basically old wives' tales about diabetes care, while recommending a fantastic new treatment. The problem here? Her ideas are not new, fantastic or even scientific. And that old wives' tale, or "old dogma" as she likes to phrase it, happens to be what science has proven to work for those wishing to sustain healthy blood sugar levels. What is the old dogma you ask? A low carbohydrate diet.

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Righteous About a Diabetes Diet? Damn Right! by Dana Carpender

The low carb world has been abuzz with the news that Diabetes Health Magazine recently published an article, Type 2 Diabetes: From Old Dogmas to New Realities - Part 2 by a registered dietician and diabetes educator named Hope Warshaw. Ms Warshaw wrote this article, she says, to debunk two what she calls "common old dogmas" regarding diabetes management.

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