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The LLVLC Show (Episode 576): Nell Stephenson Gives The Paleo Diet A Modern-Day Makeover

Jimmy Moore — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:39:05 +0000

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In Episode 576 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore,” it’s my pleasure to share with you for the second time an outstanding Paleo nutritional health expert named Nell Stephenson. I first interviewed Nell in Episode 399 sharing about what she is doing for the Paleo community in September 2010. Since that time she’s been very busy working on spreading the message to a much wider audience by rebranding the Paleo message that many like to hearken back to Paleolithic times and give it a modern-day makeover.

After collaborating with Professor Loren Cordain and Lorrie Cordain on The Paleo Diet Cookbook: More than 150 recipes for Paleo Breakfasts, Lunches, Dinners, Snacks, and Beverages in 2011, Nell is back in 2012 with a fabulous new book of her own imploring her philosophy of living Paleo in a modern world entitled Paleoista: Gain Energy, Get Lean, and Feel Fabulous With the Diet You Were Born to Eat. Nell says that far too many people, women especially, can be turned off by the whole “caveman” aspect of the Paleo diet. While she says that approach is perfectly fine as a way to attract some people (mostly men) to the lifestyle, she has a different take on Paleo that is more suited to modern-day living. That’s why she created this fun new term Paleoista to mash together Paleo and fashionista in a different twist on eating this way. Listen in as Nell shares about how to respect the traditional diet of our ancestors while living in the 21st Century!

Listen to Nell Stephenson share about how to become a “Paleoista”:

Her continued work with clients in adopting the Paleo lifestyle

Her new local Paleo In Motion business in Los Angeles

Where she came up with the concept of “Paleoista”

Paleo doesn’t have to be “cave-y”

It can be for everybody even if you don’t mimic Paleo man

Ancestral nutrition without the ancestral lifestyle

We all need to be eating real food and moving–that’s it!

The “Paleoista” concept is the “feminine voice” in Paleo

Women might feel more comfortable with this than caveman imagery

Men are also being influenced by this book because women reading it

She wants to be a female example of Paleo success

People are unhealthy but are scared into eating Paleo

Paleo is a much more “balanced” diet than people realize

Why doing a zero-carb, processed meats diet is not smart

Whether everybody should be doing a Paleo diet or not

Why real food Paleo living is so maligned in modern-day society

Society takes things out of context (tofu is a prime example)

Eating a lot of soy doesn’t necessarily reduce breast cancer risk

The direct ties between MyPlate and the agricultural industry

Many people have to be at the end of their health to change

People should get more active in promoting Paleo to the masses

Oprah doing the Paleo lifestyle might shifting public opinion

Dr. Oz’s “Prehistoric Diet Plan”

The enemies of Paleo attempt to co-opt terms in what they believe

“Paleo” products that aren’t really Paleo at all

You have to read the ingredient labels on any packaged foods

Why doing 2 one-hour kitchen prep time weekly is necessary

What it is so difficult about cooking at home for most people

The average American watches 34 hours of television weekly

Why movement is a vital part of becoming a “Paleoista” too

Always start with a “fun” goal to get interested in exercise

Recognize we all have a gift of having a healthy body to move

You’ve gotta be fair to yourself and give it time to work

At a restaurant, she chooses to order last (for good reason)

Her fun dishes like the “Chicken Cordain Blueberry” recipe

The 50+ Paleo recipes she included in the book

The sprinkling of “Paleoista” success stories throughout the book

How Tonya in Afghanistan inspires making Paleo work in the military

She’s always wanted to help people and “make a difference”

It’s not really hard about knowing what to do (“eat fresh food and move”)

Nell’s long-distance Paleo nutrition counseling via Skype

There are four ways you can listen to Episode 576:

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What did you think about Nell Stephenson’s Paleoista concept for promoting Paleo to modern-day women? Sound off about it in the show notes section of Episode 576. Pick up a copy of Nell’s book Paleoista: Gain Energy, Get Lean, and Feel Fabulous With the Diet You Were Born to Eat and stay on top of all of her work at Paleoista.com. This was our LAST LLVLC SHOW PODCAST until Monday, June 4, 2012 while I’m away on the Low-Carb Cruise and taking a bit of time off for rest and relaxation to recharge the batteries. Don’t despair, though, I will be back better than ever before after taking off the month of May. THANK YOU so much for your enthusiastic support of my podcast.

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The LLVLC Show (Episode 575): Dr. Krista Scott-Dixon Tells You How She Really Feels About Calories

Jimmy Moore — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:40:11 +0000

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In Episode 575 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore,” we are pleased to have a Toronto, Ontario-based nutrition and fitness extraordinaire named Dr. Krista Scott-Dixon from “Precision Nutrition” with us to talk about her perspective on what diet, exercise and healthy living is all about. After I met Krista at the PaleoFX event in Austin, Texas in March 2012 (I moderated a panel she was a part of that week), there was no question in my mind that I had to invite her to be on as a special interview guest on my podcast. This PhD in Women’s Studies has a genuine heart for reaching that busy woman who thinks she doesn’t have time in her schedule for eating right and exercising. She’s really quite the character as you can see first-hand at her wildly-popular women’s fitness and health web site Stumptuous.com. In fact, you may notice at the top of her web site two words that look tee-totally out of place and I dare you to click on it to see what it’s all about (although it might catch you off guard at first, I think you might be pleasantly surprised by the overall message she’s conveying!). Listen in as I speaks with Krista directly about this two-word shocker, get her thoughts on where low-carb and Paleo diets get it wrong (and right!) and how to engage women especially into making fitness a regular part of their healthy lifestyle change. This was a fun one that I hope you enjoy listening to as much as I did recording it!

Listen to Dr. Krista Scott-Dixon give you the skinny on health:

She was the kid who was “cutting gym class” and “always picked last”

Feels like she’s “an outsider within” not being an athlete growing up

She started weight training when she found she was athletic

How to get women interested in weight lifting

She never had a problem with strength training personally

Strong role models in weight lifting is important for women

Professional bodybuilders are not relatable for most women

We need to showcase the various sizes of people involved in this

Even for people with disabilities need to be highlighted

Why a soup can or anything not attached is a free weight

Link things to what people do (getting up out of a chair is a squat)

Renaming exercise as “movement” to take the mystique away

Micromanagement of your health outsources it to so-called “experts”

The risk aspect of fitness is what makes trainers so much money

People don’t know what foods are good for us and bad for us

An industry has popped up providing 45,000 food-like health products

Food companies started making processed food for military (OJ)

Slick food marketing has disillusioned what it means to eat well

Most people would be “shocked” by how much they’re being lied to

Read the book The End Of Overeating by David Kessler

Her Stumptuous.com web site she began in 1997

She always thought she’d “phase out” the web site at some point

But it’s now more relevant than ever before

She read the science library to access the latest studies

When she began writing, her site was the “monster” source of info

Saying “strong is the new sexy” shifts the focus to how you look

More women take up weight training now from the “growth of knowledge”

Women’s athletics has come on strong and increased interest

Her unabashed, in-your-face FREE e-book F*** Calories

One day she just “snapped” and had to write about calories

The doctrine of calories just “makes people crazy” and obsessed

It’s demeaning of “the majesty and wonder” of the human body

Living healthy doesn’t have to be complicated and convoluted

Calorie concept is “an easy trade-off” for people to conceptualize

The simplicity of calories makes it so easy to embrace as truth

Calories in, calories out has a certain logic to it for most people

It sounds so scientific to count calories consumed vs. burned

People have no grasp of the fundamentals of metabolism

Our bodies are way smarter than us in running as it is supposed to

There’s a very system-based approach to treating medical issues

There’s a “fragmentation” of the understanding of the body

We’ve got to reach people where they’re at right now in this moment

We have to look at people’s “complex set of needs”

Everyone is motivated–either to do something or not do something

You have to make changes “relevant” to people in “small steps”

We have a lot of power to make changes in our environment

Impact the people around you in your life with positive changes

Being the agent of change will shift the paradigm of our culture

It all “starts with relationships” when you want people to change

Getting actively involved with someone in the change makes it happen

How to get people involved more in the Paleo health community

“We are all change-makers” to influence others with the message

Reaching out across the boundaries to people who might not find us

People come to this from different paths and it takes all those paths

The more people who are blogging and podcasting the merrier

People want to find people that are “just like me” to relate to

Building a “robust” movement will take more and more people

Awesomeness-based vs. awfulness-based coaching

Her “oh-my-God-soymilk” Starbucks story at PaleoFX

Pointing to people’s failures is the wrong way to go about motivating

Focusing in on what people do well already and make them better

Zeroing in on the positive parts increases your motivation to do it

Her work at the online coaching company “Precision Nutrition”

The “mixed bag of people” working there with a variety of backgrounds

It’s a “life transformation program” that impacts the body and more

Clients there check in every day to track their progress

The “Healthy Food Bank” charity

Her Spezzatino food magazine

There are four ways you can listen to Episode 575:

1. Listen at the iTunes page for the podcast:

2. Listen and comment about the show at the official web site for the podcast:

3. Download the MP3 file of Episode 575 [49:37m]:

4. Listen on the Stitcher app–NO DOWNLOADING!

How did you like what you heard from Dr. Krista Scott-Dixon? Tell us your thoughts about it in the show notes section of Episode 575. Download your FREE copy of Krista’s e-book F*** Calories and keep up with what she is doing at stumptuous.com. Coming up on Tuesday, we welcome back former podcast interview guest Nell Stephenson (listen to my first interview with her in Episode 399) who will be here discussing her brand new book Paleoista: Gain Energy, Get Lean, and Feel Fabulous With the Diet You Were Born to Eat. Don’t forget, this will be the LAST LLVLC SHOW PODCAST until Monday, June 4, 2012 while I’m away on the Low-Carb Cruise and taking a bit of time off for rest and relaxation to recharge the batteries. THANK YOU for listening!

Ask The Low-Carb Experts (Episode 15): ‘Exploding The Low-Carb Myths’ | Dr. Eric Westman

Jimmy Moore — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:11:37 +0000

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In Episode 15 of “Jimmy Moore Presents: Ask The Low-Carb Experts,” we have an amazing bona fide low-carb expert for you in Duke University researcher and health practitioner Dr. Eric Westman. He is a lifestyle medicine physician/bariatrician who specializes in disease prevention of his patients primarily through the use of low-carbohydrate nutritional approaches that often improve conditions such as Type 2 diabetes, obesity, PCOS, metabolic syndrome, sleep apnea, fatty liver disease and more. Dr. Westman is the co-author with Dr. Stephen Phinney and Dr. Jeff Volek on the New York Times bestselling book The New Atkins For A New You (listen to my interview with him about this book in Episode 338 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show”) and he has performed some of the most influential scientific research on low-carb diets in the world over the past decade. He regularly teaches his patients in Durham, North Carolina about low-carb diets and has heard virtually every objection about it over the years. That’s why we were privileged to have him here with us dispelling the myths people still believe about low-carb living. I’m pleased to have brought you a highly-qualified expert like Dr. Eric Westman today joining us on ATLCX answering listener questions about the plethora of low-carb myths in EPISODE 15 on April 26, 2012.

Listen to Dr. Eric Westman “Exploding The Low-Carb Myths”:

His frustration over the “endless” concerns that never come true

There’s a myth that you need 120g carbs daily for brain health

But our bodies make glucose internally without eating it

Low-carbers have to stand up and say “I’m alive!” to dispel this

Mothers are having babies on a carbohydrate-restricted lifestyle

Dietitians are used to talking about calories on a weight loss diet

It’s not that calories don’t count, but you don’t have to count them

Calories do matter with weight loss and yet you don’t talk about them

The science has been done on this but the teaching hasn’t changed

Low-carb is described as “high-protein” by they’re adequate protein

It’s actually a “high-fat” diet despite the negativity against fat

If fat was bad, why would our bodies be storing something harmful

The science has never really proven the low-fat diet saves lives

Fat being bad is the “most pervasive myth that’s still out there”

The French have never feared the fat in the foods they eat

Those who eat the most fat tend to have the best good cholesterol

People mix up healthy nutritional ketosis with dangerous ketoacidosis

Only Type 1 diabetics needs to be concerned with ketoacidosis

The notion that people won’t maintain low-carb hasn’t been tested

There needs to be more support for people wanting to eat low-carb

Negative response didn’t happen to The New Atkins like before

When Dr. Atkins died, nothing changed about the science supporting it

If you have heart disease, a high-fat diet doesn’t make it worse

Cardiovascular health improves consuming a high-fat, low-carb diet

It’s hard to make a whole lot of money promoting knowledge to people

Is There Any Such Thing As “Safe Starches” On A Low-Carb Diet?

Everyone’s blood sugar will go up, but we don’t know what insulin does

It’s the big insulin response that’s “not harmless” and “not healthy”

If you’re insulin resistant, you need to count carbohydrate grams

VIDEO: Dr. Westman’s “No Sugar, No Starch” Diet Overview

Why he uses total carbs over net carbs with his patients

Net carbs are okay for a lot of people if you’re fairly healthy

If you go to his clinic with obesity and diabetes, total carbs matter

The worse your health is the “stricter” you need to be counting carbs

It’s “easier to teach” the total grams of carbohydrate

There are no answers on how much fiber is required in the diet

A high-fat, high-carb diet will lead to Type 2 diabetes

Scientists often blame the fat in studies, but the carbs are high too

A high-fat diet without the carbohydrates is “the cure for diabetes”

The United States may not be ready for low-carb, high-fat (LCHF)

The idea that being in nutritional ketosis is harmful is a myth

Ketones are being used as fuel along with fatty acids instead of glucose

Whether ketosis is “the optimal state” is still a question

Science is showing that ketones reduce cancer and improve aging

Glucose metabolism is creating free radicals that age us

A shift from recommending urine ketone to blood ketone measurement

His challenge to obesity researchers to test one long-term low-carber

No science supports low-carb raises cortisol, burns out adrenals

Many of these issues come up from one individual and are not typical

People who follow the “Chet Atkins” diet instead of Robert Atkins diet

Why moderating protein in the diet is important on a low-carb diet

Researchers recommend 1-1.5g protein per pound of lean body mass

The challenge is whether the diet is high-fat or high-protein

This is certainly one of the “innumerable” number of studies needed

Too much protein converts to glucose because of gluconeogenesis

Whether there’s any validity with the “one golden shot” theory

Anecdotally people think low-carb only works once

Some people may not be as enthusiastic about low-carb second time

There are many changes that can happen to the body as we age

Whether there is any such thing as an “essential carbohydrate”

The body makes all the carbs you need from fat and protein you eat

The very low amount of sugar that is in the human bloodstream

A Coca-Cola has seven times more sugar than what’s in the human body

Diabetics should ask their doctors where the blood sugar goes

Dr. Mike Eades’ blog post “A spoonful of sugar”

Why diabetic teachers are so adamant about patients eating carbs

The unnecessary fear of hypoglycemia vs. hyperglycemia

What about the Asians who eat carbs and are thin and healthy

The Rice Diet in Durham is very low-calorie as well

As affluence increases, so do the calories which can be problematic

Eating carbohydrates is “optional” and not really necessary

A diabetic low-carb diet improves blood sugar levels in most people

Eating more carbohydrates than you can burn will store as body fat

Low-fat diets work because they are also low-calorie (low-carb, too!)

Hunger goes away on low-carb because you burn fat for energy

Carbohydrate gives 2,000 calories, but fat gives 40,000 calories

Fat is more efficiently burned and used by the body than sugar

Muscles and the heart prefer fat for fuel, brain uses ketone bodies

Low triglycerides and high HDL are typical of a low-carb dieter

LDL can be lower, higher or “extremely high” while on low-carb

The type of LDL cholesterol is typically the larger vs. small

The most important thing to look at is the HDL cholesterol

Get your arterial system scanned with an ultrasound doppler to see

A zero heart scan calcium score means “there’s no disease”

Ask your cardiologist what purpose LDL cholesterol has in the body

LDL cholesterol acts as a “boat” for the fat-soluble vitamins

Why low-carbers aren’t perfect bodies, health vs. low-fat vegans

Vitamin B12 deficiency on a vegan diet is a very real concern

Bariatric physicians aren’t using vegan diets for obese patients

The dream of a genuine low-carb vs. vegan diet research study

Low-carb studies don’t tend to keep them on a ketogenic diet

Just because it’s not in a study doesn’t mean it’s not true

If low-carb works for six months, what happens on the next day?

The people in charge of study funding don’t think low-carb is healthy

Why NIH-funded studies provide more prestige in research

Low-carb, low-fat (South Beach) can indeed be difficult to do

Eating a high-fat, low-carb diet with bacon is a “glorious” diet

Dr. Will Yancy doing a study allowing people to choose their own diet

Children without diabetes need calories and protein, but not carbs

School lunches tend to have more carbs because they’re cheaper

Type 1 diabetic kids do need a few carbs to offset insulin injection

Why consuming salt is not as big of an issue on a low-carb diet

We need about 5g of salt a day for what the body can use

When you sweat in the summer, you need to replenish salt with water

What you can tell people who think you need to be eating sugar

Giving a smoker two cigarettes a day gets them back to it again soon

Eating sugar is just as addictive in the brain as smoking, drugs

People who say “you have to eat” doesn’t mean you need sugar

Even Dr. Robert Lustig allows for up to 30g sugar daily

Dr. Lustig’s recent appearance on “60 Minutes”

People on low-carb can have thyroid symptoms, but unknown why

He uses low-carb nutrition with thyroid replacement for patients

“It doesn’t make sense” to add back in carbohydrates to fix thyroid

Whether you never eat high-carb foods ever again once going low-carb

There is “no forbidden food” on low-carb, make the right choices

His work at Innovative Metabolic Solutions with Dr. Mary Vernon

There are four ways you can listen to Episode 15:

1. LISTEN LIVE ON THURSDAY NIGHTS AT 7PM ET by calling (712) 432-0900 or on Skype at “freeconferencing.7124320900″–whether you call or Skype, be sure to use the access code “848908.” You can listen and even participate on the topic discussion by asking your questions directly to the featured expert.

2. Listen at the iTunes page for the podcast:

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4. Download the MP3 file of Episode 14 [96:01m]:

If you cannot join us LIVE on the podcast on Thursday nights at 7PM ET, then you can still ask your questions of the expert guests in two ways. First, you can visit AskTheLowCarbExperts.com and fill out the form along the right-hand side of the page under “Submit Your Question” to input your name, e-mail address, the name of the expert you want to ask, and your question for them. These questions will be asked LIVE on the show airing on Thursdays. Or, for your convenience we have set up a way for you to e-mail us your questions directly to AskTheLowCarbExperts@gmail.com. Be sure to include your name, the name of the expert you want to ask your question to in the subject line, and your question on the specific topic of discussion. This is a golden opportunity for you to tap directly into the wealth of knowledge and experience on all things related to healthy low-carb living featuring the best and brightest experts in the realm of health!

Did you have any feedback about what Dr. Eric Westman shared about “Exploding The Low-Carb Myths?” Give us your thoughts about it in the show notes section of Episode 15. As I stated at the end of the podcast, we will NOT be having any new episodes in the month of May because of the upcoming Low-Carb Cruise on May 6-13, 2012 and then a couple more weeks afterwards to give me a small break from my podcasting schedule (it’s been nearly nonstop five days a week since the beginning of the year and I’m feeling it). But never fear, we will be back with EPISODE 16 on June 7, 2012 Maria Emmerich and Valerie Berkowitz addressing the very popular topic of “Low-Carb, Pregnancy & Kids.” THANK YOU for your support of this new podcast and tell people you know about it if you like what we’re doing.

Here are the upcoming experts and topics we’ll be covering on #ATLCX:

EPISODE 16: June 7, 2012 | Maria Emmerich and Valerie Berkowitz | “Low-Carb, Pregnancy & Kids”
EPISODE 17: June 14, 2012 | Sarah Fragoso and Jason Seib | “All Things Exercise (Exercise 101)”
EPISODE 18: June 21, 2012 | David Getoff | “The Truth About Sweeteners”
EPISODE 19: June 28, 2012 | Julia Ross | “How To Beat Carbohydrate Addiction”
6-29 to 7-18: NO PODCASTS
EPISODE 20: July 19, 2012 | Dr. Jonny Bowden | “All Things Vitamins (Supplements 101)”
EPISODE 21: July 26, 2012 | Nora Gedgaudas | “Are Starches Really Safe?”
7-27 to 8-15: NO PODCASTS
EPISODE 22: August 16, 2012 | Dr. Kaayla Daniel | “The Truth About Soy”
EPISODE 23: August 23, 2012 | Dr. Stephen Phinney | “Long-Term Stalls & Weight Gain Even On A Well-Formulated Low-Carb Diet”
EPISODE 24: August 30, 2012 | Dr. Donald Layman | “All Things Protein (Protein 101)”
EPISODE 25: September 6, 2012 | Fred Hahn | “All Things Slow Lifting (Slow Burn 101)”
EPISODE 26: September 13, 2012 | Robb Wolf | “Transitioning To The Paleo Diet”

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LAST CHANCE: 7-Year Blogiversary Giveaway Contest Prize Package Post #6

Jimmy Moore — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:10:17 +0000

Today is your LAST CHANCE to enter my 7-Year Blogiversary Giveaway Contest which officially ends at 11:59PM ET tonight. Hundreds of you have entered for your chance to win any number of prizes like one of the two GRAND PRIZES: the brand new 2012 iPad (third generation) and a $600 voucher to attend the 2013 Low-Carb Cruise leaving out of New Orleans, Louisiana in May 2013 (more details coming soon!) PLUS all of the prizes I’ve previously shared in Prize Package Post #1, Prize Package Post #2, Prize Package Post #3, Prize Package Post #4 and Prize Package Post #5. If you’re wanting to have a chance at getting your hands on one of these prizes and haven’t entered the contest yet, then you only have a few more hours to make that happen. E-mail me your answers to the following questions to become eligible for a prize in my 7-Year Blogiversary Giveaway Contest. Be sure to put in the subject line “BLOGIVERSARY CONTEST”:

1. Your first and last name, mailing address (no P.O. boxes please), and telephone number.
2. What is your current eating plan and how long have you been eating this way?
3. Where does your diet fall in the definition of low-carb as published in the journal Nutrition and Metabolism in 2009? LCKD, LCD, MCD or HCD?
4. Who are the top 5 trusted resources you turn to for quality information about health?
5. Do you consume “safe starches” like sweet potatoes, white potatoes and white rice as part of your nutritional plan? Why or why not? If so, what specific starchy foods do you consume?
6. What do you do for exercise? How often do you workout? How long have you been doing this routine?
7. How long have you been reading the “Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb” blog? How did you find it?
8. In 2012, are/have you attending/attended any of the three major low-carb/Paleo conferences (PaleoFX in March, Low-Carb Cruise in May or Ancestral Health Symposium in August)? Which ones did/will you attend and why? If you did/will not attend, why not?
9. Have you listened to my brand new podcast “Ask The Low-Carb Experts” yet? If not, why not? If so, what do you think so far? Are there any suggested topics you’d like me to bring up?
10. How many more years do you think it will take before high-fat, low-carb nutrition is accepted and embraced as a healthy lifestyle in the United States? What needs to happen to bring about that paradigm shift in thinking?

The final group of prizes available are here in Prize Package Post #6:

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Consuming Immunitrition organic raw veggies (green cabbage, cucumbers, red bell peppers, carrots, etc.) that have been cultured and free from chemicals is a fantastic addition to your healthy low-carb lifestyle. These nutrient-dense foods are combined with L. Plantarum probiotic and then allowed to work their magic in tightly-sealed, quart-size mason jars where they ferment for five to seven days and then refrigerated. One lucky reader will receive the SALT-FREE Immunitrition Organic Cultured Veggie Taste Tester which includes one 8-ounce jar each of the Garden, Sea, and Sunshine flavors PLUS a two-ounce bottle of Roasted Pumpkin Seed Oil, a packet of finely ground Celtic Sea Salt, a portion/recipe/serving suggestion and information sheet. Enjoy what they like to call “the healthiest snack on Earth!”

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Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb and 21 Life Lessons From Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb e-books

When I first started blogging in April 2005, I knew I would want to express myself outside the bounds of the blogosphere. In October 2005 I released my first book Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb: My Journey From Flabby Fat To Sensationally Skinny In One Year where I shared about my weight loss experience in 2004 while it was still fresh on my mind. But as the years progressed, my focus shifted away from focusing on simple weight loss into sharing more about living a healthier lifestyle. That’s what I put in my November 2009 release 21 Life Lessons From Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb: How The Healthy Low-Carb Lifestyle Changed Everything I Thought I Knew discussing many of the lessons I have learned along the way in this wild and crazy low-carb journey. Five lucky readers will receive both of the e-book versions of my books. And coming later this year I’ll be writing a “State Of Low-Carb” chapter in the 2nd edition of the Low-Carbing Among Friends book series and then contributing 60 yummy low-carb recipes to the 3rd edition. Plus, I just signed a contract last week to write a new book that they predict could be a New York Times bestseller coming in 2013. Exciting stuff and more details about that when I can share more!

THE LLVLC SHOW PRIZE PACKAGE (1)
Co-host Episode 600 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show” podcast and interview the guest of your choice (subject to availability)

I’ve got one last prize to share with you and I hope this is a really special one for one lucky reader. As you know I’ve been quite fortunate to interview many of the best and brightest people in the world of diet, health, fitness and nutrition. From researchers to physicians, low-fat raw vegans to zero-carb carnivores, and everything in between, it’s been quite a ride these past few years. I truly love interviewing and have grown to love it more and more the longer I have done it. In just a few months I’ll be hitting a milestone on my flagship podcast “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show”–600 EPISODES! In the past I’ve celebrated every 100th show by doing something set aside from the normal programming and this time is no different. Since there are so many talented people who read my blog and listen to my three podcasts that now air five times weekly, I wanted to give one of you an opportunity to co-host “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show” podcast with me (don’t worry, all you have to do is show up via telephone or Skype and I’ll take care of all the technical stuff) interviewing the guest of YOUR choosing. That’s right, I’m giving you the chance to not only be the host of the show but to name who you want to talk to in that special Episode 600 airing in August. Of course, we have to confirm that the guest can appear on the show (and I’ll let you know right now, don’t ask for Jillian Michaels, Dr. Oz, Oprah, Michelle Obama or Angelina Jolie–I’ve tried for years and not a peep from any of them!). I’ve never opened up my show to guest hosts, so the winner of this prize gets a rare chance to be a part of something very near and dear to me.

This is it guys, only a precious few hours left to enter my 7-Year Blogiversary Giveaway Contest. It all ends tonight, April 27, 2012 at 11:59PM ET, so don’t delay. Christine and I will be compiling all the entries and drawing names at random over the weekend (we’ll pour through all the survey answers after returning from the Low-Carb Cruise in mid-May and share a full report from that collected data). A full list of winners will be shared coming up in a big blog post on Monday, April 30, 2012–come back then to see if you won a prize. Winners will receive their prize within 6-8 weeks after the contest. GOOD LUCK to you all and THANK YOU again for helping me celebrate 7 years of glorious low-carb blogging. YOU ARE AWESOME!

The LLVLC Show (Episode 573): Nancy Kennedy Lets Weight Loss Success Stories Share ‘How We Did It’

Jimmy Moore — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:33:38 +0000

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In Episode 573 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore,” we have a special treat in store for you today with professional writer and published author Nancy Kennedy. Several years ago, I received an e-mail from Nancy asking me about my Atkins diet weight loss success story and she explained that she was writing a book about how people have lost weight. She found my “Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb” blog and thought I’d be the perfect example of what she was wanting to include in this book she wanted to write called How We Did it: Weight Loss Choices That Will Work For You. Since you well know my basic nutritional health philosophy is all about people finding what works for them to attain the best health possible, I was obviously excited to be a part of the project. Nancy conducted about an hour-long interview with me asking about all aspects of the process of being morbidly obese to all the miraculous changes that took place for me physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. While the project had to be shelved for a little while, the book is NOW AVAILABLE and we’re happy to share more about this inspiring book of success stories with you today!

Listen to Nancy Kennedy share about success story book:

She wanted to do this book after losing 30 pounds herself

Her desire to find if there’s one or many ways to succeed

Why she wanted to examine all the different diet plans

I was one of the first people she contacted for her book

The variety of success stories featured in the book

Weight loss means a few standard commonalities should be in place

How “inspired” she was by the triple-digit weight loss stories

What she did to find the various people featured in the book

There are thousands of weight loss blogs out there

Facebook’s popularity helped her find a South Beach dieter

We have been told a monolithic message of low-fat, low-calorie

Her desire for people to be inspired and informed about what works

In magazine weight loss profiles, you don’t learn “how this works”

Why she chose to leave out Dukan, 17-Day Diet and Paleo

She wanted to talk to people who lost and maintained over time

How she could tell if someone had “made the switch” or not

The difficulty she had finding a Mediterranean and Volumetrics success

Her acknowledgement that this is much more than about weight loss

The common theme that she heard that went well beyond weight loss

The “triggering event” that makes you understand the need to change

How some of the featured stories creatively began their journey

She allowed the success to tell their story in their words

The tips included at the end of each story from the success

Her overview of the basics for the different plans

She got “down and dirty” with specifics about why the diets work

Whether she was inspired by a success to any particular plan

Why she enjoys the faith-based Thin Within philosophy

How she loves the South Beach recipes for her lifestyle

Her question about whether I have switched from Atkins to Paleo

How some people can pick and choose the things that works for them

Why changes aren’t made every two weeks, but at periods of time

The invaluable “Do’s & Don’ts From Those Who Did” chapter

Stop looking at past failures and keep searching for what works

You’re fighting your environment constantly

Listen to your body and respond accordingly

Banish your dread of exercise and reap the benefits

How quickly you can get stronger by doing resistance training

There are four ways you can listen to Episode 573:

1. Listen at the iTunes page for the podcast:

2. Listen and comment about the show at the official web site for the podcast:

3. Download the MP3 file of Episode 573 [36:33m]:

4. Listen on the Stitcher app–NO DOWNLOADING!

Were you inspired by the work that Nancy Kennedy has done with her new book? Give us your feedback about it in the show notes section of Episode 573. Pick up your own copy of How We Did It: Weight Loss Choices that Will Work for YOU and learn more about Nancy at her official web site. Coming up on Wednesday, you’ll hear from Dan Pardi from “Dan’s Plan” who is helping people learn to eat, sleep and move better in order to maximize their health. DON’T MISS IT!

JOIN US ON THE “ASK THE LOW-CARB EXPERTS” PODCAST THIS WEEK: We are poised to have a TON of questions this week in Episode 15 of “Ask The Low-Carb Experts” on Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 7PM ET addressing the topic “Exploding The Low-Carb Myths” featuring low-carb researcher and practitioner Dr. Eric Westman. He is one of the co-authors (with Dr. Jeff Volek and Dr. Stephen Phinney) of the New York Times bestselling book The New Atkins For A New You (listen to my interview with Dr. Westman about this book in Episode 338 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show”). He has performed some of the most influential scientific research on low-carb diets in the world. Dr. Westman regularly teaches his patients about low-carb diets and has heard virtually every objection about it over the years. That’s why he’ll be a highly-qualified expert here with us dispelling the myths people still believe about low-carb living. If you have any questions about the myths about low-carb diets that you would like for Dr. Westman to address, then feel free to send it to me this week at AskTheLowCarbExperts@gmail.com. Or ask your question LIVE on my show by calling (712) 432-0900 or Skype the show for FREE by calling the username freeconferencing.7124320900. Whether you call or Skype, be sure to use the access code 848908. Listen LIVE and leave us a review at iTunes if you like what you hear. This is your chance to interact with the best nutritional health experts in the world, so don’t be bashful.

The LLVLC Show (Episode 572): Dr. Dag Viljen Poleszynski Champions Paleo Low-Carb Living In Norway

Jimmy Moore — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:08:37 +0000

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In Episode 572 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore,” we travel across the Atlantic Ocean to touch base with a Norwegian Paleo low-carb nutritional health expert named Dr. Dag Viljen Poleszynski (this is a Google Translate of his bio on Wikipedia). He truly is a fascinating individual in both the low-carb and Paleo communities although most people in the United States and probably around the world outside of the Scandinavian countries may not be aware of who he is. But Dr. Poleszynski is making waves promoting the science supporting evolutionary/primal/Paleo/ancestral/low-carb nutrition and is closely examining the incredible improvements in health that people can experience implementing these traditional diet changes into our modern 21st Century society. He is the Editor-in-chief of a popular Norwegian publication called “Science & Reason Magazine” (again, this is a Google Translate into English from Norwegian) which takes a closer look at issues that tend to get overlooked in science by the mainstream press, especially regarding nutritional health. What a delightful conversation I had with Dr. Poleszynski which you will hear in today’s exciting episode!

Listen to Dr. Dag Viljen Poleszynski talk about Paleo in Norway:

In 1992, he was lacto-ovo vegetarian until he met a professor

The professor gave him a pamphlet on evolutionary heritage

He also learned about the importance of consuming fat

He’d always consumed a lot of butter in his diet

His cholesterol levels were “low normal” eating tons of butter

He soaked and milled his own grains and ate lots of salads

But he had heartburn and “didn’t feel that good”

The professor shared about Paleo nutrition and started doing it

His experience eating his first steak in 10 years

How he discovered he was a O blood type designed for Paleo

He gained a lot of muscle mass in the 1990s

In 2000 he became a professor teaching holistic nutrition

It didn’t last long because someone didn’t like his teaching

He’s remained in contact with his students in those two years

The Polish doctor who is a big fan of high-fat diets

He made a concerted effort to add more fat to his diet

His connection with Uffe Ravnskov to lecture on high-fat diets

He is a member of the cholesterol skeptics group THINCS

Lay people are routinely disrespected speaking on nutrition

This drove him to start studying nutrition for five years

Even after getting a Master’s degree, the disrespect continued

He spoke up often in class and was frowned upon by the professors

He pursued his PhD as “an old-fashioned Norwegian PhD”

50-70 Norwegian low-carbers now exist today promoting the message

He met Dr. Robert Atkins many times over the years

The letter he wrote to the newspaper about Dr. Atkins’ death

He published in his magazine the lies about how Atkins died

There are not very many vegans in Norway, but many “ill-informed”

Meat eaters tend to have the best health, vegans the worst

How he responds to vegans who say they care about animals

His preference for grass-fed animals made into food

He quotes Loren Cordain, but is skeptical of his fat position

Episode 556: Loren Cordain Interview On The Paleo Answer

There’s no need to eat 5-6 small meals, not evolutionary

His “To Eat Or What Not To Eat” paper

Medical schools are about indoctrination, not latest science

Universities not free thinking but repeat information

There is no prestige in sticking with old ideas

You can’t patent and market healthy nutrition

With socialized medicine, it’s controlled by pharmaceutical industry

The only way to heal ourselves is to return to old principles

You don’t feed a lion bread!

Evolution biology and nutrition never cross paths

He said he’d be delighted to come to US to speak if asked

There are four ways you can listen to Episode 572:

1. Listen at the iTunes page for the podcast:

2. Listen and comment about the show at the official web site for the podcast:

3. Download the MP3 file of Episode 572 [38:26m]:

4. Listen on the Stitcher app–NO DOWNLOADING!

How did you like Dr. Dag Viljen Poleszynski from Norway? Tell us about it in the show notes section of Episode 572. Don’t miss Dag’s “Science & Reason Magazine” (Google Translate into English from Norwegian) to keep up with what is happening with Paleo low-carb in Norway! Coming up on Tuesday, I’ll have an author named Nancy Kennedy on to discuss a book that features my story and other weight loss success stories in it entitled How We Did It: Weight Loss Choices that Will Work for YOU. And then on Wednesday, I’m pleased to share with you the work of Dan Pardi from “Dan’s Plan” who is helping people learn to eat, sleep and move better in order to maximize their health.