Basics

What is low carb eating?

Reference books

• Briffa, Dr John - Escape the Diet Trap
• Volek, Jeff & Stephen Phinney - The Art & Science of Low Carbohydrate Living
• Taubes, Gary – Good Calories Bad Calories
• Groves, Barry – Trick and Treat
• Eades, Dr Michael and Mary Dan – The Protein Power Lifeplan & Six Week Cure for the Middle-aged Middle
• Sissons, Mark – The Primal Blueprint, and his two cookbooks
• Kendrick, Malcolm – The Great Cholesterol Con
• McCleary, Dr Larry – The Brain Trust Program
• Carpender, Dana – any of her recipe books
• Gillespie, David – Sweet Poison
• Carlson, Dr James - Genocide: How your Doctor's ignorance is Killing You
• Fallon, Sally - Nourishing Traditions
• Sutter, Hannah - Big Fat Lies: Is your Government Making you Fat?
• Bowden, Jonny - Living Low Carb
• Bernstein, Dr Richard - Dr Berstein's Diabetes Solution
• Ravnskov, Dr Uffe - Fat and Cholesterol Are Good For You

Documentaries

• Fat Head the Movie
• Food Inc.
• King Corn
• My Big Fat Diet

Podcasts and videos

• Jimmy Moore’s podcasts
• Gary Taubes interview – Science of Skinny
• Tom Naughton Fat Head clip
• Paleo in a Nutshell - Food
• Paleo in a Nutshell – exercise
• Paleo in a Nutshell - sunshine
• Dr Robert Lustig - Sugar: The bitter truth
• Dr Robert Lustig - Interventions to Reduce Sugar Consumption
• Michael Holick – Vitamin D
• Dr McKendrick Cholesterol (BMA Leeds)
• "Big Fat Fiasco" - Tom Naughton speech
• Dana's Low Carb for Life show - Dana Carpender
• Dr Su's Carbohydrates can Kill podcast show
• Robb Wolf - The Paleo Solution podcast show
• This Week in Paleo show
• Robb Wolf introduces Paleo - video
• Dr. Terry Wahls - Minding Your Mitochondria
• Slim is Simple - Jonathan Bailor

Inspiration - personal jouneys

• Primal Journey – Dollface
• TV interview with Dollface
• Primal success stories

Low carb blogs and websites

What is Low Carb? – There are many different low carb eating plans, such as Atkins, South Beach, Protein Power etc. In essence they all involve the reduction of carbohydrates in the diet along with an increase in protein and fats. Each plan uses different ratios of carbs to protein and fats.

• Raisin-Hell – David Gillespie author of “Sweet Poison”
• Dr John Briffa – UK doctor, lecturer & columnist
• Dana Carpender - famous low carb cook
• Tom Naughton – comedian, maker of Fat Head the Movie
• In the Food Moment - Heather’s weightloss blog
• Jennifer McLagan – famous cookbook author of “Fat” and “Bones”
• Jimmy Moore – general low carb news
• Laura Dolson – great source of low carb information
• Barry Groves – UK author of Trick and Treat
• Dr William Davis – cardiologist
• Dr James Carlson - author, physician, biochemist
• Dr Andreas Eenfeldt - Swedish physician - world's #1 low carb blog
• Edible – Sara’s cooking blog
• Low Carb Confidential - Lisa’s weightloss blog
• Laura Dolson - Getting started on a low carb diet (this is an extremely useful and easy to follow guide to the basics of low carb - foods to choose, foods to avoid, menu planning etc)
• Lynda's Change of Life blog - NZ - low carb & paleo

Primal blogs and website

What is a Primal lifestyle? A Primal eating plan is also based on the real foods that our bodies evolved to eat. It differs from Paleo in that the plan includes some more recent foods such as dairy based foods. The plan was devised by Mark Sisson and is a lifestyle programme that includes exercise and relaxation.

• Mark’s Daily Apple
• Art of Not Working – Judith’s NZ blog about weightloss and so much more

Paleo blogs and websites

What is Paleo? Paleo diets are based on the concept that human evolution up to the Neolithic period established the most natural way for us to eat, and that the move to farming after this period changed the human diet (and our health) for the worse. The paleo diet shuns processed foods including grains, sugars, and modern vegetable oils in favour of high-quality meat, fish, eggs, and vegetables.

• Free the Animal
• Archevore
• Paleohacks
• Modern Paleo
• Julianne's Paleo & Zone Nutrition blog - NZ
• Paleoz - Australian
• That Paleo Guy - Jamie Scott - NZ
• Whole9
• Robb Wolf
• Clothes Make the Girl - Melissa Joulwan
• Nom Nom Paleo

The science behind low carb

• Dr Michael Eades
• Hyperlipid
• Entropy Production
• Dave Dixon - Spark of Reason
• Stephen Guyenet Whole Health Source
• Weston A Price Foundation
• The Metabolism Society (USA)
• The China Study: Fact or Fallacy by Denise Minger
• The Healthy Skeptic - Chris Kresser
• Evolutionary Psychiaitry - Dr Emily Deans
• Perfect Health Diet - Paul Jaminet
• Living an Optimized Life - Dr Jack Kruse

Weightloss

• About Health - Getting started on a low carb diet
• Jimmy Moore's "Livin' la vida" low carb menus

Top Articles

• Scientific American "Carbs against Cardio"
• In the face of contradictory evidence: Report of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans Committee
• Gary Taubes - "Is Sugar Toxic?" NY Times

Online Carbohydrate Counter

• UK carb counter

Quick carb guides

• Quick guide to carbs in nuts
• Quick guide to carbs in herbs and spices
• Quick guide to carbs in vegetables
• Quick guide to carbs in sauces
• Quick guide to carbs in fruit & berries
• Quick guide to carbs in fast food