Living Low Carb: Revised & Updated Edition : The Essential Guide to Choosing the Right Low-Carb Plan for You

**The best low-carb guide keeps getting better! This revised edition of the book by nationally known nutrition expert Jonny Bowden provides up-to-date insight on how to choose the perfect diet for __you__.** In their quest to lose weight and live healthily, dieters continue to embrace low-carb plans like Keto, Paleo, and the Mediterranean Diet. And with this new update and revision, Jonny Bowden's bestselling __Living Low Carb__ more perfectly reflects today's choices, focusing on five major contemporary diets: Keto, Atkins, Mediterranean, Paleo, and Zone-type diets. It explores the most recent scientific discoveries on the microbiome, brain chemistry, appetite, cravings, carbs, and sugar addiction, and features new tips, tricks, and sidebars from professionals—providing more guidance for dieters trying to figure out what plan is right for them. With refreshing candor, Bowden evaluates the popular low-carb programs in light of the latest scientific research and shows you how to customize your own plan for long-term weight loss and optimal well-being. __This updated edition__:- Focuses on five basic philosophies of low-carb eating - Explores the most recent scientific discoveries made about brain chemistry, appetite, cravings, and sugar addiction - Features an introduction by Dr. Will Cole There are a few editions of this book around with each containing slight differences as different diets are studied and more research results come out about diet's effect on various diseases. Basically it's a book about the dangers of the processed food, high (bad) fat, high carb, high sugar western diet or Standard American Diet (SAD) versus a low carb diet. Dr Bowden has a lively and well written and researched style which is easy to understand and he makes some complicated medical concepts more accessible to the layperson. The 2004 version of the book - which is the one available from openlibrary.org - contains sections on the history of low carb diets, why they work, reviews fourteen of the low carb diets from 2004 (I understand other versions have updated the diets) including the Atkins Diet, the Paleo Diet, the Scarsdale diet, the South Beach Diet and the Zone, and has chapters on diet supplements and drugs, low carb myths, frequently asked questions, tricks of the trade, and how to put a low carb program together. It also has a comprehensive and helpful index. Definitely a book worth reading for anyone interested in getting healthier.