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A SWEET DEAL ON A NEW LOW-CARB SWEETENER

Watch for the EZ-Sweetz infomercial due to air on The Food Network, the Cooking Channel, and some other channels tomorrow or Wednesday, Sept 18 or 19, 2012. (Update: they are now scheduled to start of Friday.) Low-carb celebrity chef, George Stella, stars in the ad (doing his best imitation of the guy in the ShamWow commercials!). EZ-Sweetz is offering a fantastic deal to introduce this new sweetener, which will soon be available in retail stores nation-wide. The booklet pictured above that I put together for them will be included…

LOW-CARBING AMONG FRIENDS, VOL 2

Now ready for pre-order! Click here to read more. This is the 2nd in a new series of cookbooks from Jennifer Eloff and her ever-expanding team of authors, doctors, low-carb experts, and cookbook writers. All the recipes are low-carb, gluten-free, wheat-free, and sugar-free, and all have been cross-checked with a variety of sweeteners so you can use the ones you prefer. This book, as well as Low-Carbing Among Friends, Vol 1, will be available either perfect bound, or for a few dollars more, coil bound. Coil…

GEORGE STELLA, SUPERSTAR, SUPER GUY

If there is a superstar in the world of low-carb cooking, it is George Stella. He has helped thousands of people lose weight and regain their health though his popular show, Low Carb and Lovin’ It, on the Food Network and his many best-selling low-carb cookbooks. Most recently, he appeared on the Dr. Oz show http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/family-lost-500-pounds-pt-2 with his family to share the story of how he lost 265 pounds and his family of four lost a total of over 500 pounds by eliminating starch and sugar from their diets. I’ve had the opportunity to work…

“NOURISHED” NOW AVAILABLE ON KINDLE AND NOOK!

I’ve had a number of requests for Nourished in e-book format. I’ve been working on getting it out since December, but it wasn’t easy to change a book with lots of sidebars, boxes, insets, and pictures to fit into one long, narrow column. (It took 9 edits to get it right!) It is now available from Amazon for Kindle and Fire here: http://www.amazon.com/Nourished-Cookbook-Metabolic-Balance-ebook/dp/B007SZGD7Y/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1334938890&sr=1-1 And from Barnes and Noble for Nook here: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1110271351?ean=2940014528054. If you don’t own a Kindle or Nook reader, you can get free apps so you can enjoy reading books on your iPad,…

PRIZE PACKAGE #4 WINNERS AND AMAZON UPDATE

One of the 2 winners of prize package #4 was Nancy Marsh. Congratulations, Nancy! The second winner has not contacted me yet to claim his prize and give me his address. So, Ken R., if you are reading this, you have until Saturday, February 11 to get in touch with me or I will have to choose an alternate winner. For the rest of you, there is still time to enter your name in the drawing for Prize Package #5! Thank you to all of you have…

INTERVIEW ON KABC LOS ANGELES

I’ve been invited as a guest on the John Phillips Show on KABC Talk Radio in Los Angeles this morning and the McIntire in the Morning Show tomorrow. It occurred to me that new visitors to my blog might expect to find a description of my latest book, so here it is: NOURISHED; A Cookbook for Health, Weight Loss, and Metabolic Balance The science is clear—controlling insulin is the key to health and metabolic balance, and controlled-carbohydrate diets are the natural way to control insulin. The menus…

NOURISHED GIVEAWAY #3: A NEW WINNER AND A NEW PRIZE PACKAGE

The winner of the 2nd prize package in the giveaway celebrating the launch of Nourished; a Cookbook for Health, Weight Loss, and Metabolic Balance, has been selected and notified. She requested that I not publish her name. Here is #3 in our line up of fabulous awards. Review the rules and entry requirements here: http://carbwars.blogspot.com/2012/01/six-weeks-of-prizes-to-celebrate.html (It’s easy, but we have to tell you these things.) Prize Package Primal Body, Primal Mind; Beyond the Paleo Diet for Total Health and a Longer Life, by Nora T. Gedgaudus, ©…

SIX WEEKS OF PRIZES TO CELEBRATE “NOURISHED” #2

Prize Package #2: A Gift Basket of Products from LC Foods. Retail value – $55.86 PLUS 21 Life Lessons From Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb: How The Healthy Low-Carb Lifestyle Changed Everything I Thought I Knew, by Jimmy Moore, 2009. List Price -$27.99 LC Foods Gift Basket: The science is clear, but the stores are still full of non-fat, low-fat, and low-calorie “diet” foods, while low-carb items are hard to find and usually disappointing. What should be the world’s easiest diet, one that never leaves you hungry,…

WE HAVE A WINNER!

Prize Package #1 in the Nourished giveaway, a hardback copy of Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It and a set of eight stainless steel steak knives, goes to (drum roll, please): Genevieve Carter! There are lots more good things to come, so don’t give up if you didn’t win this time. I’ll be posting Package #2 shortly, so reread the rules here http://carbwars.blogspot.com/2012/01/six-weeks-of-prizes-to-celebrate.html and get your entries in for the next round. Don’t forget to tell me that you want to enter the giveaway, which…

PODCAST INTERVIEW WITH JIMMY MOORE!

Unless you are new to the low-carb lifestyle, you are certainly familiar with Jimmy Moore’s Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb site at http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/. Jimmy serves as Grand Central Station for the low-carb community. I have him to thank for much of the success of my first book, and I was thrilled when he invited me for one of his very popular podcasts to introduce the new one. When we recorded the interview, I was confident that the book would be out, or at least available for pre-order, by…

WHY WE GET FAT AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT, by Gary Taubes

Breaking news: Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It by Gary Taubes, the author of The New York Times best seller Good Calories, Bad Calories, is due out on December 28. Go to Amazon right this instant and order this book! The pre-publication sales have already reached 6,748 in books on Amazon’s website, and that number will skyrocket as the word gets around that it is available. All the sales that are placed for a book prior to publication will vest on…

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