The CarbSmart Podcast
by CarbSmart.com
Introducing the CarbSmart Podcast, where low-carb living is demystified and celebrated. The CarbSmart Podcast is a dynamic audio journey into the heart of low-carb living hosted by celebrated low-carb cookbook author Dana Carpender and Andrew DiMino, the visionary behind CarbSmart.com. Start or restart your Low-Carb Lifestyle with CarbSmart! We’ve been promoting the healthy Low-Carb & keto diet since 1999. Each episode is a treasure trove of insights from leading low-carb experts, doctors, and industry pioneers. With Dana’s culinary expertise and Andrew’s extensive knowledge of the Low-Carb industry, the podcast promises to transform your understanding of low-carb and keto diets including tips and tricks for low-carb success as well as perspectives into the science of Low-Carb living. Not just interviews, we also breathe new life into our top articles, ensuri
Episodes
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31. People Who Gain Weight Easily and People Who Don't
Remember the old nursery rhyme about how Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean? While the historical roots of that rhyme are misty, it does suggest that people are metabolically different, something that apparently has been recognized for a long time. So let's talk about it. The...
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30. Three Question Interview with Dr. James LaBelle, Medical Director of Lore Health
Welcome to the CarbSmart Podcast, where your decision to embrace low-carb nutrition becomes a fun and delicious lifestyle! I’m your host, Dana Carpender, here to guide you through the ins and outs of everything low carb – or talk to the people who do! My sister Kim is asthmatic. Between not…
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29. Dana Carpender Reads Letter on Corpulence The First Low-Carb Diet Book
This show, we have something a little different. This show. Features something I did not write myself that has not happened before. But let's start with this. How old is a low-carb diet? If you look at the traditional diets of various peoples, including the seal, fish, and Blubber diet of the...
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28. Carbs Count, But How? Understanding Net Carbs vs. Total Carbs
You may be confused regarding net carbs versus total carbs. So let’s demystify it. Shall we. Keep listening. I see it online all the time. Total carbs or net carbs. I also see are you strict keto, lazy keto, dirty keto? What’s your daily carb limit? What are your macros? But particularly Total...
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27. Eat It Again! How Repetition Rewires Your Taste
Eat It Again! How Repetition Rewires Your Taste If you’ve just recently gone low-carb, say as a New Year’s resolution, you may be overwhelmed by the sheer difference from your old diet. Faux-tatoes instead of mashed potatoes. Lunches that don’t include sandwiches, heavy cream and flavored stevia…
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26. If your nutritional program is so good, why do you still take drugs?
If your nutritional program is so good, why do you still take drugs? There’s no question that good nutrition improves our health. Heck, many type 2 diabetics do away with all need for medication by eating low-carb. But can proper nutrition prevent all illness and do away with all need for drugs?...
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25. Isn’t it Important to Eat a Balanced Diet?
Isn't it important to eat a balanced diet? How many times have you been told it's important to eat a balanced diet? Doctors, mom, health class, magazine articles, everywhere. Remember to eat a balanced diet. It's been repeated so often that it's accepted without a thought. Except, of course, by…
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24: Welcome to the Wonderful World of Low-Carb
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Low-Carb – CarbSmart Podcast Episode 24 Carb restriction is, of course, a great way to achieve weight loss & health. So, let's talk about it. Links and Show Notes Welcome to the CarbSmart Podcast, where your decision to embrace low-carb nutrition becomes a fun…
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23. ENCORE: Refusing Holiday Food and Staying Low-Carb
Refusing Holiday Food and Staying Low-Carb CarbSmart Podcast Episode 23 Dealing with the holiday food pushers Welcome to the Encore Edition of Refusing Holiday Food and Staying Low-Carb! We’re revisiting some of our earliest and most popular episodes to celebrate our journey and your incredible...
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22. Staying Well While You're Getting Well Low-Carb Tips for Cold & Flu Relief
Staying Well While You're Getting Well Low-Carb Tips for Cold & Flu Relief Links and Show Notes Ah, yes. Autumn. The cool, crisp air. The brilliant leaves. The cozy sweaters. And the advent of cold and flu season. Achoo! What does this have to do with our low-carb diets? More than you might think...
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21. How to Have a Fun & Healthy Low-Carb Halloween
How to Have a Fun & Healthy Low-Carb Halloween Links and Show Notes Let’s talk about the scariest thing about Halloween. All that sugar. Several years back on a website I frequented, there was a discussion of Halloween plans. It was there that I first encountered the concept of trunk or treat, a...
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20. 3 Question Interview with Fred Hahn – author of The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution
3 Question Interview with Fred Hahn Links and Show Notes Welcome to another 3 question interview from CarbSmart. I’m your host, Dana Carpender, your trusted guide to everything low-carb. Today, I’m interviewing Fred Hahn, owner of Slow Burn Fitness, author of The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution, and...
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19. Why I’m Not a Low-Carb Purist
Why I’m Not a Low-Carb Purist Links and Show Notes Are you a food purist? Do you insist that everything be natural and organic? I’m not, and I don’t. So let me explain why. I have been accused of not being a low-carb purist. I have, over the past many years in general, taken some heat for not…
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18. Are You NOT Getting Enough Sodium on Your Low Carb Diet?
Are You NOT Getting Enough Sodium on Your Low-Carb Diet? Links and Show Notes Sodium Deficiency – hyponatremia I got to the piece in the beginning of The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living about the symptoms of sodium deficiency, also known as hyponatremia. And guess what? It sounded very...
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17. Can Low-Carb Slow The Aging Process?
Can Low-Carb Slow The Aging Process? Links and Show Notes We all know that carb restriction causes weight loss, controls blood sugar, and can help treat all of the ugly effects of metabolic syndrome. But what if carb restriction could make you younger? It should be noted that this is, to some...
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16. Serenity Prayer for a Dedicated Low Carber
Serenity Prayer for a Dedicated Low Carber Links and Show Notes Years ago, a reader told me that they admired me because I had stuck with my low-carb diet even though it had not given me the body of my dreams. Surely you’re familiar with the Alcoholics Anonymous Serenity Prayer – “God grant me…
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15. Calories In/Calories Out vs Carbohydrate Restriction - What Works Best?
Calories In/Calories Out vs Carbohydrate Restriction - What Works Best?? Links and Show Notes There is a long-established truism that weight loss is all about “calories in, calories out,” and along with it the apparently unshakeable assumption that all calories are created equal. It’s all bunk....
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14. What About Cheat Days On Your Low-Carb Lifestyle?
What About Cheat Days on Your Low-Carb Lifestyle? Links and Show Notes “How often should I have a cheat day?” There seems to be an assumption that cheat days are a good idea, something that should be built into a low-carb diet to keep people from feeling deprived. I beg to differ. Indeed, I’m not...
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13. Let’s Go to the Fair!
Let’s Go to the Fair! How to Stay Low-Carb at Your County Fair Links and Show Notes Summer is here! And for many of us, especially those of us who live in rural-ish areas, that means a trip to the county fair. Ah, yes, the county fair, home of deep-fried Snickers bars, corn dogs, elephant ears…
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12. 3 Question Interview with Christine Moore, Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner
Dana Carpender’s 3 Question Interview with Christine Moore, Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner Links and Show Notes Welcome to another three-question interview from CarbSmart. I’m Dana Carpenter, your trusted guide to everything low-carb. In these interviews, I ask a professional whose...
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11. Why Do We Equate Junk Food with Fun?
Why Do We Equate Junk Food with Fun? CarbSmart Podcast Episode 11 28 years ago, I had a friend / massage client, my first career was as a massage therapist, whose husband ran a business as a jobber, buying out overstock and stuff from businesses that were closing down, and then selling it to…
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10. Dana Carpender Interviews Dr William Davis, Author of Wheat Belly & Super Gut
Dana Carpender Interviews Dr William Davis, Author of Wheat Belly & Super Gut CarbSmart Podcast Episode 10 CarbSmart’s Dana Carpender interviewed William Davis, MD for her “3 Questions with” series. Dr William Davis is a prolific writer and expert healthcare professional. He is the New York Times...
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09. Let’s Go On A Low-Carb Memorial Day Cookout with Dana Carpender
Let’s Go On A Low-Carb Memorial Day Cookout with Dana Carpender CarbSmart Podcast Episode 9 Hey gang, you know what’s coming up? A holiday that doesn’t torpedo our diets! Boy, you gotta love Memorial Day weekend. Not only is it the official beginning of summer, not only do most of us have a long...
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08. What Is A Keto Diet? Keto Basics with Dana Carpender
What Is A Keto Diet? Keto Basics with Dana Carpender CarbSmart Podcast Episode 8 Welcome to today's episode of the CarbSmart Podcast, where your decision to embrace low-carb nutrition becomes a fun and delicious lifestyle. I’m your host, Dana Carpenter, here to guide you through the ins and outs…
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07. How Did I Get Here? Dana Carpender’s Journey of 29 Years on Low-Carb
CarbSmart Podcast Episode 7 How Did I Get Here? Dana Carpender’s Journey of 29 Years on Low-Carb You read her articles, you buy her cookbooks, you make her recipes, now you can listen to her CarbSmart Podcast! In the episode, Dana Carpender describes her Journey of 29 Years on her healthy…
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06. How's Your New Year's Resolution?
Put up in a place where it’s easy to see the cryptic admonishment T T T. When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it’s well to remember that Things Take Time. – Piet Hein CarbSmart Podcast Episode 6 How's Your New Year's Resolution? So how are those New Year’s resolutions coming? I’d like...
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05. How to Succeed with Your Low-Carb Resolutions
How to Succeed with Your Low-Carb Resolutions I’m pretty sure I was supposed to have a flying car and a robot maid by now, but I’ll settle for a healthy body and a happy life. How about you? I think it’s the annual reminder of the relentless passage of time that makes New Year’s Day a great time…
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04. 2023 Low-Carb Holiday Alcohol Guide
We made it through Thanksgiving! It is now officially party season. There will be tree-trimming parties, cookie-baking parties, Festivus parties, Yuletide celebrations, Hanukkah get-togethers, New Year's Eve party, and even my sister's Twelfth Night party. Just general all-out merriment from now...
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03. Low-Carb Holiday Gift Giving Guide
If I posted a Thanksgiving article a couple of weeks ago, it must be the Christmas shopping season. Or Hanukkah. Or Kwanzaa. or Yule. or Saturnalia. Or Festivus, or let’s drink to the days getting longer again. Whatever you want to celebrate is fine by me, so long as you count me in on the wine....
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02. Low-Carb Thanksgiving Tips & Tricks
Low-Carb Thanksgiving Tips & Tricks CarbSmart Podcast Episode 2 Last-Minute Low-Carb Thanksgiving Tips & Tricks Why would I bother having even a bite of candied sweet potato? Planning for Thanksgiving In case you hadn’t noticed, Thanksgiving is upon us, and it seems incumbent upon me to say...
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01. Refusing Holiday Food and Staying Low-Carb
Refusing Holiday Food and Staying Low-Carb CarbSmart Podcast Episode 1 Dealing with the holiday food pushers It’s October and you know what that means: the holidays are straight ahead and with them piles and piles of carby junk and worse, people nagging you to eat the stuff. Why so many people...
About this show
Introducing the CarbSmart Podcast, where low-carb living is demystified and celebrated.
The CarbSmart Podcast is a dynamic audio journey into the heart of low-carb living hosted by celebrated low-carb cookbook author Dana Carpender and Andrew DiMino, the visionary behind CarbSmart.com.
Start or restart your Low-Carb Lifestyle with CarbSmart!
We’ve been promoting the healthy Low-Carb & keto diet since 1999.
Each episode is a treasure trove of insights from leading low-carb experts, doctors, and industry pioneers. With Dana’s culinary expertise and Andrew’s extensive knowledge of the Low-Carb industry, the podcast promises to transform your understanding of low-carb and keto diets including tips and tricks for low-carb success as well as perspectives into the science of Low-Carb living.
Not just interviews, we also breathe new life into our top articles, ensuri
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