Thorough Revised Edition Of Classic Jonny Bowden Low-Carb Book Set For January 2010 Re-Release

Dr. Jonny Bowden’s updated book will be called “Living Low-Carb”

It seems like so long ago since I started the “Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb” blog, but it’s only been a little more than four years now. But one of the very first people from the low-carb community to contact me was a man named Dr. Jonny Bowden. At the time he didn’t have “Dr.” in front of his name like he does now, but he was already an established bona fide expert on fitness and health. He sent me an autographed copy of a book he had written in 2003 on low-carb diets called Living The Low Carb Life and I absolutely devoured the information he shared in that masterpiece comparing the various low-carb plans so that people could find the plan that was right for them.

After reading through this amazing book, I penned an enthusiastic review describing Living The Low-Carb Life as the “must-have book for everybody doing low-carb!” It was May 2005 and I was super-excited about telling the whole world about how low-carb living had radically changed my life in the year prior. I couldn’t imagine how my life would have turned out in the coming years without the lifesaving knowledge that came from experiencing the low-carb lifestyle up close and personal in my own life. Unfortunately, that sentiment was not shared by those in the publishing world at the time who thought low-carb was a dead and dying fad that must be avoided like the plague (which is why I am anxious to see how well my upcoming new book with “low-carb” in the title will do when it releases this summer).

And this negative sentiment about low-carb from the publishing world inevitably made an impact on authors like Bowden who said in an early 2006 interview that he wished he hadn’t written Living The Low-Carb Life. In a follow-up interview I had with him on my blog later that year, Bowden clarified his position and told me that use of the term “low-carb” was “too partisan” and “like a religion” for a lot of people within the carbohydrate restriction community which is why he said what he did. He then went on from 2007-2008 to write four highly successful bestselling health books on Fair Winds Press ( The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth , The Most Effective Natural Cures On Earth, The Healthiest Meals on Earth, and The 150 Most Effective Ways to Boost Your Energy) that never once mentioned “low-carb” on the front or back cover anywhere–although the content inside the books was decidedly geared towards low-carb living. For all intents and purposes, “low-carb” was abandoned as a marketing tool for future Bowden books–or so it seemed!

In late 2008, I received notice that Sterling Publishing was interested in an updated and revised version of Living The Low-Carb Life to include much of the new low-carb research as well as the new diet plans that have come out since the 2003 release, including including The All-New Atkins Advantage, The Low GI Diet, The Ultimate New York Diet, The Maker’s Diet, The Biggest Loser, and many more! And the look of the book will be very similar to the original except for the title. The new book set to be released on January 5, 2010 will be called Living Low Carb: Controlled-Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss.

Did you see that–they put “low-carb” in the title! The world must be coming to an end for something this monumental to happen. I gotta tell you, only someone with the writing credentials and marketing prowess of the caliber of Dr. Jonny Bowden could have ever convinced a publisher to allow him to use that term on a major book release in 2010. Are we seeing the beginning signs of a serious low-carb rebirth within publishing circles? Is the science behind low-carb living FINALLY catching up enough that it can no longer be ignored and proclaiming “low-carb” is not something to be ashamed of anymore? We can only hope!

The new book will be very similar to Bowden’s original except it will be more comprehensive with “all the newest data that support the long-term health benefits of a contemporary low-carbohydrate eating plan.” I LOVE THAT! It focuses on the studies that have been conducted, the fact that this way of eating is a permanent lifestyle approach, and that it is meant as a benefit to your health first and foremost rather than for weight loss. Those three facts alone make me very excited about the prospects for this new version of a classic low-carb book. If you never read the original, then you’ll be pleased to see how each low-carb plan is examined, evaluated, and analyzed by Bowden to give you all the pros and cons of choosing a specific plan over another. This will become an invaluable tool for anyone who is interested in livin’ la vida low-carb, but don’t quite know where to start or which plan is right for them. Living Low-Carb will help provide that answer!

CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Jonny Bowden for all of his fantastic contributions to the low-carb community for so many years. We are better educated about making healthy carbohydrate-restricted choices for our bodies and the future of this way of eating looks bright indeed. While I don’t think the whole world is gonna start immediately running away from the high-carb, low-fat dogma they’ve been indoctrinated with for most of their lives based simply on the release of this one book, I do think there will be a lot of people who check out this book and begin the reeducation process about what they thought they knew was true about a healthy diet. Hopefully the success of books like this one will show the publishing world just how wrong they were to blacklist “low-carb” from being used to market books about the subject. Let’s show our support for the publishers who are willing to allow authors to use “low-carb” loud and proud in the title! The message is much too important to be dancing around what we really mean.