Dana Carpender

Dana Carpender is an American food writer, best known for writing about low carbohydrate dieting. Carpender lives with her husband in Bloomington, Indiana. She is also the great-niece of Arthur S. Carpender. She is the author of eight books: How I Gave Up My Low Fat Diet and Lost 40 Pounds 500 Low-Carb Recipes 15 Minute Low-Carb Recipes The Low Carb Barbecue Book 500 More Low-Carb Recipes 200 Low-Carb Slow Cooker Recipes The Low-Carb Smoothies Book The Every Calorie Counts Cookbook. She also has a carb counter book and a diet-tracker book. All are published by Fair Winds Press of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Carpender is also a columnist, syndicated by United Media. Her column originally focused solely on low carbohydrate cooking, and was called Low Carb For Life, but broadened perspective to healthy cooking in general, and the title was changed to Cook Well, Eat Well. The column, however, continues to concern itself with glycemic load, which does, indeed, require a careful eye on quality and quantity of carbohydrates. Carpender began her career as a self-published author. She and her husband invested $3000 to print 1000 copies of How I Gave Up My Low Fat Diet and Lost 40 Pounds.