Real Health Conversations (general)
Real Health Conversations (Formerly Low-Carb Conversations) is hosted by Holly Jean Mullen, FNTP and features a variety of voices in the world of modern nutrition and health science, expressing many different points of view.
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Jenny Westerkamp's "Gen Y Nutritionist" web site
You Are What You Retweet: 140 Social Media Rules to Eat By
Jenny on Twitter
Jenny on Facebook
Tyler Bramlett at "Garage Warrior" web site
"Garage Warrior" podcast
"Garage Warrior" on Facebook
Tyler's January 2013 interview with Jimmy on the "Garage Warrior" podcast
High Protein, Low Carb
Panera's new hidden low-carb menu elicits cheers, confusion
Hapifork measures how much and how fast you’re eating
Eating Fruits and Vegetables Can Make You More Optimistic
Does Wheat Make You Fat?
Bananas – Nature’s Most Perfect Food?
Avocado consumption is associated with better diet quality and nutrient intake, and lower metabolic syndrome risk in US adults: results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2001–2008
The Importance Of Fat Location And How Belly Fat Differs From Thigh Fat
13 Banned Foods Still Allowed in the U.S.
Coronary Artery Disease as Clogged Pipes A Misconceptual Model
What’s causing obesity? I can’t believe it’s not butter.

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We've got another funtabulicious Friday here today in Episode 68 of Low-Carb Conversations with Jimmy Moore & Friends. Your two congenial and lovable co-hosts Jimmy and Dietitian Cassie are in their rightful places ready to tackle the latest health headlines of the day. This podcast is one of the most unique in the low-carb and Paleo communities because you get to hear real opinions from real people living this lifestyle sharing the real deal about the nutrition and health ideas of our day. We give 'em all the white gloves treatment and tell it like it is. If you like what you hear, then remember we are LISTENER-SUPPORTED and your donations really go a long way towards helping us continue bringing you more opinions galore in the weeks, months and years to come. If you enjoy our weekly romp through the health headlines that you hear on "Low-Carb Conversations" and want to help us out, then you can make a donation to keep us on the air throughout 2013 and beyond. THANK YOU for your support!

We've got two more awesome guest friends from the Paleo and low-carb blogging community joining us today as we welcome Sam Feltham from "Smash The Fat" and Jennifer Courtney from the "PaleoMomRx" blog. Listen in as Jimmy and Cassie talk about what foods RDs would eat and wouldn't eat, how so many people are diagnosing their health online these day and how listening to health podcasts can actually lead you to lose more weight than those who don't. Then they invite in Sam and Jennifer to address how a medical doctor gets it all wrong about high-fat, low-carb diets, the absurdity of the new Coke anti-obesity ads focusing on calories, whether "fat genes" determine whether you'll become obese or not, the viability of BMI for measuring obesity, the negative effect of carbohydrates on the brain and the fact that there is 30% more sugar in cereals sold in the UK than in the US. And then our favorite part of the show is the recipe and cooking tips time at the end with Sam and Jennifer featuring a chicken fajita dish. Now you know what to do: pull up a chair, grab a cup of coffee and let's talk!

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Sam Feltham from "Smash The Fat"
Jennifer Courtney from the "PaleoMomRx" blog
Foods Nutrition Experts Will Never Eat
Pew: 35 percent of US adults are online diagnosers
Twitter Can Make You Less Fat
Do high fat, low carb diets work?
Critics attack Coke's anti-obesity ad
'Fat Genes' Determine Obesity, UCLA Study Says, In Addition To Diet And Exercise
A Good Way to Measure Obesity? Fat Chance
Carbohydrates: Bad For The Aging Brain
Britain's biggest cereal brands contain 30% more sugar than same products in U.S.

Recipe:

LOW CARB CHICKEN FAJITAS
INGREDIENTS
▪ 1 medium chicken breast
▪ 1 lettuce
▪ 2 tomatoes
▪ 1 red pepper
▪ 1 birdseye chilli
▪ 1 small red onion
▪ ½ avocado1 lime
▪ 1 tablespoon of olive oil
DIRECTIONS
Cut 1 tomato, ½ red pepper, birdseye chilli and red onion to make a salsa. Spoon out the avocado and chop up the other tomato, mix those together, squeeze the lime in and mash it up to make a guacamole.
Slice the other ½ of the red pepper and chicken into strips. Fry them in the olive oil. Once cooked put on a separate plate. Now comes the low carb bit. You'll be using the lettuce leaves as tortillas to make the fajitas. With a leaf in hand spread on some salsa, guacamole and place some fried chicken peppers on top. Roll it up and eat it up, but be careful  as I have had salsa juice run down my top on a couple of occasions!
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We are primed for yet another fun show in Episode 67 of Low-Carb Conversations with Jimmy Moore & Friends! Your co-hosts Jimmy and Dietitian Cassie are always ready to roll for this weekly romp through the various health headlines of the day with a couple more of their Paleo and low-carb friends. We are LISTENER-SUPPORTED and your donations really go a long way towards helping us continue bringing you more opinions galore in the weeks, months and years to come. If you have as much fun with our weekly romp through the headlines that you hear on "Low-Carb Conversations" and want to help us out, then you can make a donation to keep us on the air throughout 2013 and beyond. THANK YOU for your support!

We're up today with two more fantastic guest friends from the health blogging community who both have fabulous books for you to be inspired by. Joe Salama from "The Paleo Miracle", author of The Paleo Miracle: 50 Real Stories of Health Transformation, and Amber Beam from the "Paleo Savvy" blog who penned Weeknight Paleo: 9 Weeks of Quick and Easy Gluten-Free Meals give us their own unique take on a variety of current news stories about nutrition and health. Listen in as Jimmy, Cassie, Joe and Amber discuss the best and worst diet trends from 2012, whether carrying more weight helps you live longer, what role your memory plays in whether you are hungry or not, examining new research claiming eating saturated fat drops sperm counts, how we're eating less fat today than in the 1970s, the concept of intermittent fasting catching on, whether sugar is following the same pathway as tobacco and an in-depth discussion about the recent three-part blog series on carbs and calories written by Robb Wolf. Don't forget to check out the great cooking tips at the end from Joe and Amber. So pull up a chair, grab a cup of coffee and let's talk!

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Joe Salama from "The Paleo Miracle"
The Paleo Miracle: 50 Real Stories of Health Transformation
"The Paleo Miracle" Facebook page
Amber Beam from the "Paleo Savvy" blog
Weeknight Paleo: 9 Weeks of Quick and Easy Gluten-Free Meals
"Paleo Savvy" on Twitter
"Paleo Savvy" on Facebook
Paula Deen Admits Her Donut Burger Is '1 Serving Per Lifetime'
Best And Worst Diet Trends Of 2012
Want to live longer? New study says pack on pounds!
Read the original JAMA study here
Hungry again? Your memory may be to blame
Saturated fats tied to falling sperm counts in Danes: study
Americans are eating 10g less fat per day than they did in the late 1970s
One-meal-a-day diets under the microscope
Is sugar the next tobacco?
Low Carb and Paleo: My Thoughts Part 1
My Thoughts on Low Carb and Paleo, Part Deux
My thoughts on Low Carb and Paleo Episode 3: A New Hope

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Today's special guests are Todd Dosenberry and Kaila Prins.

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Todd Dosenberry's "Primal Toad" blog
Kaila Prins' "In My Skinny Jeans" blog
A Burger for Lunch Shaves 30 Minutes a Day off Your Life
Just Lowering Fat Intake Can Shed Pounds, Study Finds
Genetically modified ‘frankenfish’ to appear in US stores
Confirmed Again: Statin Drugs Calcify The Coronary Arteries
Overweight teens eat fewer calories, study finds
Defining junk food a big can of worms
Sweet nothings
When Food Becomes a Religion

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Today we present to you our final podcast of 2012 in Episode 65 of Low-Carb Conversations with Jimmy Moore & Friends! Co-hosts Jimmy and Dietitian Cassie along with their two guest friends chime in with more opinions on the latest and greatest health headlines to give their unique low-carb perspective on them. We're taking the next two months off from the podcast but will come back refreshed and ready to roll again with lots of new low-carb and Paleo bloggers in the new year. We are a LISTENER-SUPPORTED podcast and appreciate all the fantastic donations that so many of you have provided us. If you enjoy what you hear on "Low-Carb Conversations" and want to help us out, then you can make a donation to keep us on the air in 2013.

We're loaded with an awesome hour-long conversation for you today as Jimmy and Dietitian Cassie welcome two new low-carb podcasters with opinions to spare. They are Kelly McCausey from the "Low Carb Mom" blog and Lynn Terry from the "Traveling Low Carb" blog who are the co-hosts of a brand new podcast called the "90 Day Low Carb Challenge." Listen in as we talk about some dubious "signs" you'll live to be 100 years old, vegan Dr. Joel Fuhrman's nonsensical nutritional advice for being healthy, whether beans are a good option for controlling diabetes, how new research shows moderate weight loss does very little to lower heart disease risk in people with diabetes, whether heavy statin drug use can actually lead to greater vascular calcification and whether obsessing over your exercise routine is doing more harm than good. Plus, don't miss the recipe time at the end of today's episode. It's our final episode of the year and we invite you to pull up a chair, grab a cup of coffee and let's talk!

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Kelly McCausey from the "Low Carb Mom" blog
Lynn Terry from the "Traveling Low Carb" blog
Kelly and Lynn's "90 Day Low Carb Challenge" podcast
German doctors remove 28-kg tumour from woman
Surprising signs you'll live to 100
Eat your way to winter health! Ward off flu, colds and even cancer with one doctor's new immunity-boosting combination diet (and you could even lose weight, too)
Beans show promise in diabetes
Moderate weight loss alone doesn’t lower heart disease risk in diabetics, study shows
Progression of Vascular Calcification Is Increased with Statin Use
How Not Exercising Obsessively Is Improving My Life by Neely Quinn

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We've got another great show to share with you today in Episode 64 of Low-Carb Conversations with Jimmy Moore & Friends! Your congenial co-hosts Jimmy and Dietitian Cassie stand ready to lead the conversation challenging the latest health headlines that are permeating our culture. There's a lot of garbage information being put out there that real people are unfortunately believing is true which is why we are privileged to bring you this show week after week. If you appreciate the service we are providing with this podcast, then don't forget we are LISTENER-SUPPORTED and rely on YOU our listeners to keep it on the air. If you enjoy what you hear on "Low-Carb Conversations" and want to help us out, then you can make a donation so we can keep pumping out information that takes on the conventional wisdom that pervades diet, fitness and health. THANKS so much for your amazing support!

We've got a fantastic show for you today as Jimmy and Dietitian Cassie welcome to the Virtual Porch a wonderful husband-wife team to share their opinions about the health headlines. They are Louise Hendon from the "Ancestral Chef" blog and her husband Jeremy Hendon from the "Simple Health" blog who are the owners of two excellent businesses to help Paleo and low-carb enthusiasts alike: Louise's Foods and Paleo Living Magazine. Listen in to get their take on why they believe gluten-free eating is a big deal backed by science and personal experience, why the battle against wheat is justified, whether a Harvard study explaining Atkins diet weight regain is valid or not, a "bad science" research example claiming countries that eat the most chocolate win the most Nobel prizes (yeah right!), reasons why the severely obese category is growing at a lightning pace, how not getting enough sleep is detrimental not just to your body but also your fat cells, Dr. Andrew Weil's new focus on carbohydrate density, and Chris Kresser's recent column dismissing the fears over the nutrate and nutrite concerns of bacon. And Louise has a scrumptious, mouthwatering recipe for you to try in your own kitchen at the end of today's show. We can't wait to have you join in on the conversation today, so pull up a chair, grab a cup of coffee and let's talk!

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Jeremy's "Simple Health" blog
Louise's "Ancestral Chef" blog
Jeremy & Louise Hendon from Louise's Foods
Paleo Living Magazine app
Gluten-free craze not backed by science, ASU professor finds
Why are we waging a war on wheat?
Harvard explains why people regain weight with the Atkins diet
Eat More Chocolate, Win More Nobel Prizes, Study Says
Severely Obese Are Fastest Growing Group of Overweight Americans, Study Finds
Too little sleep plays havoc with fat cells
Carbohydrate Density: A Better Guide to Weight Loss
The Nitrate and Nitrite Myth: Another Reason Not To Fear Bacon

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It's Friday and that means it's time yet again for another ripped-from-the-health-headlines show in Episode 63 of Low-Carb Conversations with Jimmy Moore & Friends! Your energetic and enthusiastic co-hosts Jimmy and Dietitian Cassie are locked and loaded with a plethora of opinions to share about these headlines and more with two more of their friends from the low-carb and Paleo communities. If you're new to this podcast, we are fully LISTENER-SUPPORTED and are grateful for the donations of listeners who enjoy what they hear in this fun-filled weekly podcast that airs on Fridays. Your generous and faithful financial support allows us to stay ad-free while bringing just a bit of sanity to the sometimes insane world of nutrition and health. We are so very appreciative of our listeners who make a donation so we can continue giving you high-quality low-carb podcasting excellence week after week. THANK YOU again!

Today we are privileged to welcome two more guest friends joining Jimmy and Dietitian Cassie on the Virtual Porch with popular Paleo podcaster and blogger Stefani Ruper from the "Live. Love. Eat." podcast and Paleo For Women" blog (who released her long-awaited project PCOS Unlocked: The Manual For Your PCOS this week) and chiropractor and Paleo coach Dr. Brad Fackrell from the "Paleo 30 Day Challenge". Listen in as you'll hear them take on the latest health headlines, including the impact of the requirement in the new healthcare law to post calorie counts on soda vending machines, the very real differences in the kind of fats you can consume, a closer look into the latest American obesity statistics, why Americans have become so fat, whether low-carb diets might actually be a viable therapy for obesity and chronic disease and an exciting new Canadian government health guideline promoting meat and eggs as baby's first food (YES!). And don't miss the invaluable cooking tips from our guest friends at the end of the show. It's time now to pull up a chair, grab a cup of coffee and let's talk!

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Stefani Ruper's "Paleo For Women" blog
Dr. Brad Fackrell's "Paleo 30-Day Challenge"
New Soda Vending Machines To Display Calories, Increase Availability Of Lower Calorie Drinks
Report: Some dietary supplements illegally labeled
Why Some Fats Are Worse Than Others
Why We're So Fat: What's Behind the Latest Obesity Rates
Why Americans Are So Fat
Dr. Zorba Paster: Low-carb diets might have something
New Health Canada Guidelines Advise Meat as Baby First Food

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It's another great week of opinion-making podcasting in Episode 62 of Low-Carb Conversations with Jimmy Moore & Friends! Our dynamic duo of co-hosts Jimmy and Dietitian Cassie always have plenty to say about the health headlines of the day along with two of their friends from the Paleo and low-carb communities. This LISTENER-SUPPORTED podcast is only made possible through the generous donations of the people who listen and love this show. We are incredibly honored and privileged to provide it to you on a weekly basis every Friday and hope that it encourages you in your healthy lifestyle change. If you are enjoying what you hear on this Friday podcast, then won't you consider making a donation to continue providing this level of excellence in health and nutrition information to you? As always, we are so thankful for the support you have given us by listening, leaving us a comment at iTunes and your financial donations. We love you guys!

Today we bring to you two more super guest friends on the Virtual Porch with Jimmy and Dietitian Cassie as we welcome the inspirational life-changing story of Orleatha Smith from "Level Health And Nutrition and the talented and ever-shrinking Chris Crotty from "ComedySportz" Sacramento. Listen in as we hit on some hot headlines, including discussion of the good and bad about history repeating itself in diet trends, whether the Paleo diet is a health panacea or a hoax, a dietitian's attempt to be objective about Paleo, the soaring obesity rates taking us to 50% obesity by 2030, the failure of the low-fat food industry, why exercising less may be a better option for shedding pounds, the emergence of the high-fat avocado as a true superfood and a new review article published in the medical journal International Journal of Breast Cancer from Dr. Colin Champ and others about whether the current dietary guidelines for controlling weight, metabolic syndrome and breast cancer are best. What a fantastic show we have for you to listen to and enjoy! So pull up a chair, grab a cup of coffee and let's talk!

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Kaleigh Laventure's "The Paleo Angel" blog
Dr. Rakesh "Rocky" Patel's "Arizona Sun Prevention Center"
Hungry students protest low-calorie lunches
More info behind the "We Are Hungry" student YouTube video
Snacks: The USDA's Solution To Student's Healthy Lunch Complaints
Diabetic transforms his health with a low-carb diet and his doctor urges him to eat more carbs
Should You Go Paleo? by Lou Schuler in Men's Health Magazine
LDL Cholesterol On A Low-Carb Diet
Does LDL-P Matter? by Dr. Rocky Patel
How Intermittent Fasting Saved Me...While Slowly Killing Me by Kaleigh Laventure
Kaleigh's Paleo Pumpkin Doughnuts recipe

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It's another great week of opinion-making podcasting in Episode 61 of Low-Carb Conversations with Jimmy Moore & Friends! Our dynamic duo of co-hosts Jimmy and Dietitian Cassie always have plenty to say about the health headlines of the day along with two of their friends from the Paleo and low-carb communities. This LISTENER-SUPPORTED podcast is only made possible through the generous donations of the people who listen and love this show. We are incredibly honored and privileged to provide it to you on a weekly basis every Friday and hope that it encourages you in your healthy lifestyle change. If you are enjoying what you hear on this Friday podcast, then won't you consider making a donation to continue providing this level of excellence in health and nutrition information to you? As always, we are so thankful for the support you have given us by listening, leaving us a comment at iTunes and your financial donations. We love you guys!

Today we bring to you two more super guest friends on the Virtual Porch with Jimmy and Dietitian Cassie as we welcome the inspirational life-changing story of Orleatha Smith from "Level Health And Nutrition and the talented and ever-shrinking Chris Crotty from "ComedySportz" Sacramento. Listen in as we hit on some hot headlines, including discussion of the good and bad about history repeating itself in diet trends, whether the Paleo diet is a health panacea or a hoax, a dietitian's attempt to be objective about Paleo, the soaring obesity rates taking us to 50% obesity by 2030, the failure of the low-fat food industry, why exercising less may be a better option for shedding pounds, the emergence of the high-fat avocado as a true superfood and a new review article published in the medical journal International Journal of Breast Cancer from Dr. Colin Champ and others about whether the current dietary guidelines for controlling weight, metabolic syndrome and breast cancer are best. What a fantastic show we have for you to listen to and enjoy! So pull up a chair, grab a cup of coffee and let's talk!

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Orleatha's "Level Health And Nutrition"
Chris Crotty on ComedySportz Sacramento
History keeps repeating itself by Dr. David Katz
Paleo Diet: Healthy Or A Hoax?
Going Paleo by NC dietitian Michelle Rockwell - Training & Conditioning
Fat and getting fatter: U.S. obesity rates to soar by 2030
Many 'low fat' foods have similar calorie count to standard products, study finds
For Weight Loss, Less Exercise May Be More
Breaking Out of Guacamole to Become a Produce Star
Weight Gain, Metabolic Syndrome, and Breast Cancer Recurrence: Are Dietary Recommendations Supported by the Data?

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Nikki Hughes on Facebook
Danny Albers' "Primal North" blog
Low-Carb Diets: What’s Really Happening to Your Body?
AACE Endorses New Lower LDL Targets and ApoB Testing
Retracting a Plug for Meatless Mondays
Calcium supplements may raise heart attack risk
Low-Carb Diets and Hypothyroidism: A False Alarm
5 Fatty Foods That Make You Skinny
Western States 100 – Low Carber Wins Ultramarathon – Steve Phinney and Jeff Volek Study
The Healing Process (Part two of the thyroid post)

- Danny's recipe for Saltwater Keto Coffee
- Nikki's recipe for chocolate zucchini bread

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