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Is the Low Carb Diet Safe For My Kidneys?

The medical community is finding is that low carbohydrate eating is not causing any harm to people with normally healthy kidney function. It is important when beginning any diet to have a physical to determine your overall health. When you start a low-carb diet, drink plenty of water & add the recommended vitamins and supplements to help your success.

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Blessed Are The Children: Explaining Your Low-Carb Diet to a Child

I have recently come to the conclusion that my goddaughter, Brittany, is the devil. At the tender age of eight, it is already apparent to me that she is going to be one of those beautiful, rail-thin-yet-muscular "beach babes" that say things like, "I wish I could gain weight as easily as you do. I just eat, and I eat, and I eat, and I can never get those nice, childbearing hips like you have! It seems like the only place I ever do gain any weight is in my breasts!"

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Tinakaye’s Low Carb Success Story

Tinakaye from Ohio is 36 years old and the mother of four. She has been following the Atkins diet on and off for ten years, but used it only as a "diet" and not lifetime a way of eating. "I started again two years ago," she said, "with the first year being off and on. Then, a year ago, the light bulb went off in my head. I finally understood that this must be a lifetime way of eating and not just a diet for me. I know that Dr. Atkins repeats many times throughout his book that this is to be a way of eating, but I thought I was "different" and it didn't apply to me...... Wrong!"

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Celebrating All of Your Low-Carb Holidays