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How to Start a Low-Carb Diet in 5 Practical Steps
A practical five-step guide to starting a low-carb way of eating, with meal ideas, label-reading tips, backup plans, FAQs, and important safety considerations.
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Why Low Carb? How It Changes Hunger, Cravings, and Weight Loss
Most weight-loss advice begins with a calorie target. Our approach begins with a different question: What is driving you to eat? That distinction matters because hunger, cravings, food…
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Can Carbohydrates Worsen GERD? How Cutting Carbs Can Improve Acid Reflux
Gastroesophageal reflux disease—usually shortened to GERD—is more than occasional heartburn after a large meal. GERD occurs when stomach contents repeatedly flow backward into the esophagus and cause troublesome…
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Can a Ketogenic Diet Help Depression? What the Evidence Shows
Depression is not a personal failure, and it rarely has a single cause. Biology, life experience, trauma, chronic stress, sleep, relationships, physical health, medications, financial pressure, and many…
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Does Eating Fat Cause Gallstones? Gallbladder Health on a Low-Carb Diet
People are often told that eating fat causes gallstones or that a low-carbohydrate diet is unsafe for the gallbladder. The physiology tells a more interesting story. Dietary fat…
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Binge Eating and Stress Eating: Why It Happens and How Low-Carb Nutrition Can Help
Binge eating is often described as a failure of willpower. That explanation is both incomplete and unhelpful. Eating behavior is shaped by hunger, stress, sleep, habit, food availability,…
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Fatty Liver Disease (MASLD, Formerly NAFLD): What It Means and How Low-Carb Nutrition Can Help
Fatty liver disease is common, often silent and closely connected to insulin resistance. Many people discover it only after an imaging study shows fat in the liver or…
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Hunger Signals, Food Reward, and Low-Carb Diets
Hunger is not a single signal. Physical hunger, appetite, cravings, learned cues and food reward can each create a desire to eat—and they do not always arrive together.…
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Case Series Showing Diabetes Can be Reversed by Keto & IF
A case series recently co-authored by Dr. Tro Kalayjian, DO, suggests diabetes can be reversed through the implementation of a very low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting. …
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How to Eat Low-Carb at Restaurants, Parties, and While Traveling
A practical recap of strategies shared in a Toward Health coaching discussion for navigating restaurants, parties, social pressure, and travel while eating low-carb.
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Nuts and Dairy: Fat Creep on Low Carb
Nuts and dairy are very popular foods on a low carb or ketogenic diet — they are nutritious, low in carbs and contain healthy fats and protein. The…
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Is Low-Carb Eating Expensive?
Low-carb eating can be affordable. Use ordinary foods, compare unit prices, cook leftovers, reduce waste, and skip costly specialty products.
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The Low Carb, Keto Holiday Survival Guide
Reviewed by Amy Eiges, Certified Health Coach Holiday meals can bring together the people you love, favorite family foods, travel and a break from your usual routine. If…
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Hypertriglyceridemia Can be Reversed by Ketogenic Diet & Intermittent Fasting.
A case series recently co-authored by Dr. Tro Kalayjian, DO, suggests hypertriglyceridemia can be reversed through the implementation of a very-low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting. The manuscript…
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Ketogenic Diet Reduces Binge Eating & Food Addiction Symptoms
A case report recently co-authored by Dr. Tro Kalayjian, DO, has demonstrated the feasibility of prescribing a ketogenic diet for patients with obesity who report binge eating and…
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Do Athletes Need Carbs? What the Science Says About Low-Carb Performance
Medically reviewed by Dr. Tro Kalayjian and Dr. Laura Buchanan. Athletes are often told that carbohydrates are mandatory for performance. The evidence does not support a single carbohydrate…
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Avoiding Processed Food
One of the cornerstones of any healthy lifestyle change is increasing the amount of real food and thus limited the amounts of processed food. Undoubtedly some may ask,…
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Can food be thy medicine?
Many evidence-based proponents will be quick to judge clinicians who claim that food can “improve symptoms of mental health disorders”, or when clinicians say that a good diet…
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Long-Term Weight-Loss Strategies
There are exactly 5 ways to lose weight in the LONGTERM- WITHIN a low carb, keto/carnivore dietary paradigm •Preventing Carb Creep •Time Restricted Feeding •Protein Leverage •Hunger Re-Assessment…
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