Can you please get this guy out of whatever contract you are in with him Pleeeease! He is not healthy - you can read a book by it's cover. He can hardly bend over to take the large beef roast out of the oven without huffing and puffing. Please a healthy cooking show on fittv - atleast one please! or replace his show with more Gilad... he is nicer to look at. thanks

I agree that Blaine belongs elsewhere, perhaps on the Discovery "Health" channel, if the network really believes that what he does contributes to anyone's health or is even minimally entertaining. The low carb fad has come and gone, exposed for being a very unhealthy regime. Personally, I think that Gilad is no more attractive to look at: a lot of beef in tight shirts, yelling like a drill instructor. More Cathe Friedrich would be nice, though.

I completely agree with the above posters.
Blaine's Low Carb show is a terrible show and exposes unhealthy eating habits to the public continueing to encourage the unhealthy low card diet.
We need more workouts instead of this show.

I have no interest in Blaine's recipes and his cooking is not healthy.

My partner and I have tried some of his dishes and they are great! ....and by the way he is a sexy man. woof!

I would agree that this show's a little out of place because it's a cooking show more than anything, but the main goal of the show is that Blaine loses weight and teach a thing or two about nutrition along the way. Some of his recipes are better than others, but a lot depends on your own nutritional needs and personal tastes.

As for the older comment about "unhealthy low carb diets" - ahem. I have PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome), an inherited condition that causes my body to produce way too much insulin, estrogen and other hormones. Naturally, having too much of these in your system can lead to numerous other serious health problems, so I have to do what I can to keep those levels down. One thing is exercise, exercise, exercise. Another thing is maintaining a health weight. The last thing is sticking to a diet that won't trigger my body to produce these hormones is excess, and that means a low carb diet.

I've been on a low carb diet for about 3 years and have made my fair share of mistakes. The thing that can make a low carb diet "unhealthy" is what makes ANY diet unhealthy. That is, making bad choices, either due to lack of education or due to poor impulse control. There's a lot of things I needed to learn about nutrition to get my low carb diet right - about different types of fats, about portion control, about supplementing and avoiding processed foods. When I keep to my low carb diet properly, the health benefits are quite obvious - not only does my weight stay down and my PCOS symptoms subside, I sleep better, my GI health is better, my bad blood lipids, blood sugar and blood pressure stay low, my skin looks healthier and younger, I have more energy, and my overall mood is better.

You see, the phrase "low carb diet" often conjures up the image of piles of bacon and steaks, but that's not what a low carb diet is really about. The bulk of my diet is actually veggies. I only eat enough protein and fats to satisfy me, which is a lot less than you'd expect, and I do watch my saturated fat intake. But I also get more than the daily recommended allowance of veggies and fiber every day on this diet, eat a very wide variety of veggies throughout the week, and nearly every meal and snack I eat is unprocessed or minimally processed foods. How many people can claim that?

I do eat a limited amount of carbs - it's a low carb, not a no carb, diet. With my PCOS, I have more problems with grains and starches than with cane sugar, but I still greatly limit my intake of all these types of carbs. Most my carbs are from whole fruit or legumes, because their high fiber content keeps my blood sugar levels manageable. I also get some carbs from nuts and seeds.

One very important and beneficial thing about being on a low carb diet is it's made me more body-aware. I never understood why the recommended low-fat, high-complex carb diets not only didn't work for me, but made me feel horrible and depressed. Those supposedly healthy complex carbs would triggers horrible cravings - from pineapple to seafood to gallons of water - which I understand now was my body trying to counteract my metabolism and hormone levels going haywire from all those carbs in my system. Now my body's getting what it needs on this diet, I don't have crazy cravings, my PCOS is under control, I feel better than I have since before puberty, and I actually eat quite a variety of food. Now, if someone can find what's unhealthy in that, please, point it out (I stress again - my blood pressure and bad blood lipids are LOW).

So yes, low carb can be very healthy when done properly. It's not for everybody, of course, but the fact that low carb's gotten a bad rap because people didn't educate themselves about it properly shouldn't overshadow the fact for some people it's the very diet that's best for them.