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Your Low Carb-Paleo Gift-Giving Guide for the Holiday

Homemade Holiday Gifts

Misty Humphrey offers thoughtful and unique homemade gifts that everyone will enjoy. These personal gifts made from the heart have greater meaning than any mass produced item you found in the clearance section.

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Dana Carpender's Low Carb Peanut Butter Dip Cookies

Celebrate With Low-Carb Christmas Cookies!

Low-Carb Christmas Cookies! You can have your candy canes, your eggnog, your figgy pudding–As far back as Dana can remember, the best Christmas delicacy has been cookies. She helps us carry on that tradition with some healthier alternatives to the high-carb holiday fare.

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CarbSmart Magazine December 2013

5 Strategies to Side Step Sugar

Over the top, but true, excess sugar is toxic to our health. In all its forms, whether processed or natural, too much sugar negatively influences not only our waistline but our health as well. Vanessa shares 5 tried and true strategies to side step sugar.

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CarbSmart Magazine December 2013

Semantics of Food Addiction: How Do We Define It When Food is a Necessity of Life?

Under normal conditions it is clear that drugs and food are very different, however, because the brain reward systems responsible for making drugs of abuse so addictive are the same pleasure systems that are activated by the foods we eat, our brains can have a very hard time differentiating between the pleasure derived from mild doses of some drugs of abuse and some types of food. Dr. Nicole Avena shows us the primary differences between food and drugs of abuse and how these differences contribute to food addiction.

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Celebrating All of Your Low-Carb Holidays