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After a childhood of obesity and severe sugar addiction,
author Dana Carpender became fascinated with nutrition and alternative
medicine at the age of 19.
With nearly 20 years in these fields, she tried
the popular low fat/high complex carbohydrate diet and found herself a
borderline hypertensive at 190 pounds.
Desperate, she read in a nutrition book from 1952
that obesity was a carbohydrate intolerance disease, and decided to drop
starches and sugars from her diet -- what was there to lose?
Forty pounds and two years later, having read
everything she could find on the subject of low carbohydrate diets, Dana
gave a hour-long lecture at Bloomington Health and Fitness Center.
The local cable access station asked if they
could send a camera -- and the resultant show is the most popular in BCAT/CATS
history.
"I've had phone calls," Dana says, "from people
who say things like, 'I saw you on TV six months ago, and I want you to
know I lost 35 pounds.' Suddenly, I was getting recognized in public.
I got questions -- so many questions! Finally, I decided to write it all
down, just the way I've explained it to friends over lunch."
The result was How I Gave Up My Low Fat Diet
and Lost Forty Pounds! Written in a friendly, non-technical style, it
is "Everybody's Guide to Low Carbohydrate Dieting."
Rather than giving a one-size-fits-all approach,
the book details a wide variety of options, so the reader can customize
a program for their body and their life.
Dana also explains the biochemistry of a low
carbohydrate diet, and its surprising health benefits, in language that
is not only understandable, but entertaining.
When Dana isn't running Hold the Toast Press,
she studies nutrition, and works on her second book -- containing low
carb recipes, menu planning, grocery shopping tips, and more.
With 15 years experience, she keeps her hand
in as a massage therapist. She is also an email junkie, and an enthusiastic
Toastmaster, winning the occasional trophy.
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