I wanted to let you know about this as soon as I did–the long-awaited brand new cookbook from my friend and low-carb cookbook author Judy Barnes Baker is NOW AVAILABLE for purchase here. You might recall from my May 2011 podcast interview with Judy that this was the book that she was originally commissioned by the American Diabetes Association to write as an official ADA-recommended cookbook for people with diabetes that was going to be called The Healthy Edge.
After drafting a thorough 32-page book proposal and having it accepted following a chance elevator pitch to an ADA representative interested in using her recipe-making talents like she did in her first book Carb Wars: Sugar Is The New Fat, she excitedly started working on the recipes that would hold true to her firm belief in the high-fat, moderate protein, low-carb principles that helped her and her husband be as optimally healthy as possible. Although she did everything she could to appease their requests with the recipes, Judy would not compromise on what she knew would be nutritious foods for diabetics to consume and refused to cut out the fat from the dishes she was creating.
After months of “dead silence” after submitting most of the manuscript for her book, she heard from the editor who offered up the ADA’s suggestions for making the recipes better by instructing her to cut the fat content in them. She outright refused to use margarine in the recipes as they requested and that ended up being the deal breaker that forced her to make the difficult decision to walk away from the contract. With all the evidence pointing to healthy high-fat, low-carb living for diabetics, the ADA still doesn’t “get it” which is why it’s good to have people like Judy Barnes Baker who DO. The fat-phobia within the ADA will not being going away anytime soon, but that’s okay–the REAL message is getting out thanks to the efforts of Judy in her brand new book with the final version of the title being Nourished: A Cookbook For Health, Weight Loss and Metabolic Balance.
As she shared in my interview with her earlier this year, Judy collaborated with the Nutrition & Metabolism Society (NMS) on this book with contributions from three true giants in the world of low-carb living: the preface by the great low-carb practitioner Dr. Mary C. Vernon, the foreword by the incomparable RN who worked with Dr. Atkins himself for three decades Jackie Eberstein, and a scientific perspective from biochemistry professor and NMS founder Dr. Richard Feinman. And Judy’s dream is to see this book sell in excess of 50,000 copies as a way of sticking it to the ADA for refusing to publish her high-fat, low-carb cookbook. With all the enthusiasm for livin’ la vida low-carb in recent years, I cannot imagine that she wouldn’t meet and exceed that goal. With YOUR help, it can certainly happen.
I haven’t personally received a copy of Nourished yet, but will DEFINITELY write a review on it when I do. It’s not yet listed on Amazon yet, but you can get it exclusively right now from our friends at LC Foods. THANK YOU for supporting my friend and true low-carb champion Judy Barnes Baker in her battle against the dietary dogma that exists within the ADA. Let’s rally behind Judy and help her blow that goal of 50,000 book sales out of the water! If this new book is anything like Carb Wars was, then you’re gonna be in for a real treat.
Here are a couple of the amazing recipes you’ll find in Nourished:
