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If My Mother Had Only Known About Low Carbing She’d Still Be Alive Today!

Sonya Tilley March 20, 2001 Diabetes, Health, Low-Carb Mother's Day, Personal Experience 0

If I wrote a book on the details of the diet I grew up with, this would have to be the title. I marvel that I have even lived long enough to embrace the low carb way of life. My results are a testament to the fact that low carbing is not "A" way of eating. It is "THE" way of eating if you're interested in living long and being healthy.

Benign Dietary Ketosis And The Effects on a Diabetic

Sonya Tilley October 11, 2000 Benign Dietary Ketosis, Diabetes, Health, Research & Science 1

Every human endeavor, it seems, has got to have its very own set of buzzwords. Why? I think it's because we like to think that we are in a secret club, like the ones we had in elementary school. Only certain kids knew the secret password or the secret handshake, and we felt really smug around those who did not share the secret. Well, low carbohydrate dieting has its buzzwords, some self-explanatory, and some downright scary. In the scary group, the scariest for a diabetic are ketones and its friend ketosis.

Splenda’s Splendid! Reasons to Add Splenda to Your Life

Sonya Tilley October 10, 2000 Diabetes, Personal Experience, Splenda, Sugar Substitutes & Sweeteners 1

plenda, Splenda, Splenda. This word was drilled into my head like a mantra when I started this way of eating. Every low carb email list I belong to extolled its virtues. Almost every low carb recipe designed for the sweet tooth included packets of Splenda. I'd never heard of the stuff. Politely I asked, "What the @#$% is Splenda?" I was desperate to know.