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Move over pasta. You’ve been replaced. Spaghetti squash makes the perfect base for juicy,grass-fed meatballs nestled in a hearty Cabernet Marinara. And because spaghetti squash has such a low glycemic load, you can enjoy a healthy serving of this “spaghetti” without spiking your blood sugar.

Time To Table: 30 minutes

Serves: 4

This succulent, slow roasted dish packs a bevy of nutrients. And thanks to the curry, it helps your body make more antioxidants too. That’s because curry contains a potent compound called curcumin which turns on specific genes in your body responsible for making glutathione — your master antioxidant and detoxifier.¹

Time To Table: Overnight marinating, 4 hours cooking

Serves: 10

Want to lose a few pounds? Think zinc. Research shows 68% of diets contain less than two-thirds of the RDA for zinc. When your body is deficient in zinc, your insulin response decreases and metabolic rate drops, which means your body is more prone to store calories as fat. A single serving of this comfort food classic provides more than 40% of the daily value for this metabolism-revving mineral.

Time To Table: 1 1/2 hours

Serves: 6

There is nothing like a delicious red meat with horseradish sauce for a pleasing taste combination. Try this old favorite using the new and popular red meat alternative, bison. As an alternative to conventionally raised beef, bison is lower in fat and cholesterol and even though grass-fed, it is not wild tasting, but has a very pleasing rich flavor.

Serves: 4

(A serving equals one bison steak plus one tablespoon horseradish sauce.)

This delightful Asian dish is brimming with heart-healthy B vitamins. In fact, one serving provides a robust 50% of vitamin B6 and 33% of vitamin B12. Together with folate, these nutrients help to reduce homocysteine — an amino acid that increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases.¹

Time To Table: 1 hour

Serves: 4

Want more tummy-trimming, disease-fighting conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) in your diet? Eat grass-fed beef! You’ll get five times more CLA than if you choose grain fed. In addition to CLA’s reputed fat-fighting effects, research shows that women with the highest levels of CLA in their diet enjoy a 60% lower risk of breast cancer than those with the lowest levels of CLA.¹

Time to Table: 30 minutes

Serves: 4 (1 steak + 1/2 cup sauce)

Ever since I wrote Living the Low Carb Life in 2004, I’ve been asked to defend my statement that meat is a healthy food. Truth be told, it’s a hard statement to defend these days — but not because meat is inherently unhealthy.

We’ve all heard that high cholesterol can kill us. Most physicians react by reaching for their prescription pads. Drugs to lower cholesterol, especially the statin drugs like Mevacor and Lipitor, are among the most commonly prescribed drugs on the market. Unfortunately, like all drugs, they come with side affects. We’d be much better off if [...]

A diet high in protein may be your best choice to control both weight gain and insulin resistance. But that doesn’t mean just any protein. While plant proteins like beans and legumes are very healthy, they are much higher in carbohydrates. So, if they are your primary source of protein, they can eventually raise glucose levels and contribute to insulin resistance. That’s why animal proteins are often a necessary component of a healthy diet.

Researchers have uncovered an extremely potent cancer fighter in the form of a naturally occurring fat: conjugated linoleic acid (CLA).