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Hello all, and welcome to CarbSmartScience. I am Colin, and this page is an attempt to flood the interwebs with recipes that are healthy and low in carbohydrates.
By way of a brief introduction, I am a Neuroscientist and a Psychologist. I conduct research on how hormones (specifically steroid hormones like estrogen) interact with brain circuits to produce behaviors like learning and memory.
I also have chronic heart disease, and have dealt with this condition through a heart-attack (2008), and with an aortic aneurysm that was diagnosed in 2017. The latter lead directly to major heart surgery to replace the root and part of my ascending aorta. I used to be an athlete through high school and early college, and now have both hips replaced with shiny titanium implants that make me feel quite bionic! Put all this together and perhaps you can see why eating carefully and maintaining a healthy weight is an ongoing preoccupation.
It’s been over thirteen years that I have managed my weight. I started on The South Beach Diet (February 2011), and have stayed on it since.
This is me in Dec 2007; 41 years old, 6’5”, and 270lb, eleven months before my heart attack:
Here’s me 2020 – now; 57 years old, 6’4” (yes – compression), and 200lb.
I hope you find these recipes useful, informative, and tasty! Please note, all pasta dishes were made with high fiber pasta (FiberGourmet, Chickpea pasta etc). All breads were made with 100% whole wheat flour and not more than one slice per meal.
Thing I miss are: certain breads, pasta, potatoes, beer!
Things I gain are: my life, my family, my friends, and my students.