About Us

We are an Australian based independent low carbohydrate community who's main interests center around ours and others low carb diet and health. We are strong believers in fresh unprocessed whole food and organic foods and are quite skeptical of conventional medicine and the pharmaceutical industry. We are all pretty much following a low carbohydrate diet in some form. Remember low carb can mean many things other then one of the popular diets such as atkins, south beach or protein power. If your cutting or limiting sugar, breads and potatoes then chances are you are already on a low carbohydrate diet.

Low carb diets are not just for weight loss. If you're suffering from health conditions such as diabetes, epilepsy, gastrointestinal disorders, gestational diabetes, blood sugar issues, insulin resistance, PCOS, syndrome X and possibly even heart disease and cancer to name a few then you may find a low carbohydrate diet may be of some benefit.

We offer each other tips, guidance, research and support on the many issues related to our diets and health. We also offer this for off topic discussions, as well as a good laugh when needed. We provide a great forum, links, recipes, tools, gallery to name just a few as well as our own personal experiences that we share with each other.

We are a very friendly bunch who would love to welcome you aboard so please feel free to drop into our forums and say hello and share your experiences with us, the more the merrier!

History

The community of A Pinch of Health was first known as 'Picture of Health' starting back in 2000. Picture of Health was basically a company owned by a very nice husband and wife team (Rossana and Jesper) who offered low carbohydrate diet plans, low carb products as well as a very informative support forum which I was moderating. By the later half of 2005 they decided to move on and generously left me with the forums so that we could continue on under a new name 'A Pinch of Health'.

You may wonder why such a similar name, well after affectionately referring to our community and online family as POH for so many years we decided to opt for a name that would allow us to continue calling it that. Some of our members as far back as early 2002 remain actively posting on the forums today!