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This holiday season you may be stumped when it comes to finding the perfect gift for your low carb/Paleo/primal friends or loved ones. What about helping them achieve their health goals and supports their lifestyle? That's the gift that keeps on giving!

Sometimes a gift of food hits the spot with your special someone. Maybe they are a true-blue foodie. Or maybe they struggle to find that perfect take-along snack. Or maybe it's just as simple as them loving a specific vittle so much, that a gift of it would be just the thing this holiday season. Whatever the reason, we all love food and giving someone such a gift can certainly score points on the brownie-scale. (Sugar-free of course!)

With the changing of the seasons, holidays are just around the corner. We have many different celebrations. Whether you celebrate Winter Solstice, Christmas, Chanukah, or Kwanza, all of these bring us to the closing of yet another year. Misty Humphrey shows us how to establish holiday traditions that don’t revolve around food.

Kent Altena shares the various methods needed to help you recover from exercise, whether it's is a workout at home or running a marathon. Kent's suggestions will help you improve performance, stay encouraged, and avoid injury.

In amongst the hustle and bustle of the holidays, most of us enjoy decking the halls and turning our homes into beautifully-decorated ensembles. Sometimes though, our budgets don't match our dreams and we have to transform our homes into a prince's castle on a pauper's budget.

Many people are overwhelmed by crowded, unappealing gyms. Sagdrina offers us an alternative approach to fitness worthy of our consideration. The TRX Suspension Trainer system is an innovative approach to incorporating challenging, body weight exercises in the privacy of your own home.

Dr. James Carlson points out the problems with current medical thinking. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to learn more about the role of dietary nutrition in healthcare.

The CarbSmart team wants to help you create new traditions, as well as reacquaint you with some old favorite ways to celebrate the holidays.

This Keto Low-Carb Spiced Nuts Recipe is a healthy Low-Carb snack that’s also good for you! It is also a wonderful appetizer that you can serve every holiday, year after year.

These Low-Carb chocolate truffles are silky smooth, sinfully rich and extremely simple to make – the perfect low carb chocolate dessert for the holidays or any time of the year.