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low-carb

Adjective

Meaning

low-carb (comparative lower-carb or more low-carb, superlative lowest-carb or most low-carb)

Of a food or diet, low in carbohydrates.
The doctor's recommended low-carb diet meant that the patient would be longing for his morning bagel.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it. Ted Allen

You can be an intellectual yet still be an idiot. 'Educated philistines' have been wrong on everything from Stalinism to Iraq to low-carb diets. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I try not to deprive myself of anything. I don't do the low-carb thing or anything like that. Alicia Sacramone

I put on fifteen pounds of muscle, so that was a lot of eating chicken and a high protein, low-carb diet. Also a lot of heavy lifting and a very different kind of training with an ex-navy SEAL guy who wanted to kill me every time I got with him. In a good way. Josh Hutcherson

After a stint in the army, Bruce went on a keto – high-fat, low-carb – diet to lose a few kilos, and began reading about people who ate only meat. Source: Internet

And since 2/3 of all medical research is sponsored by drug companies, it’s virtually guaranteed that we won’t see any large studies on the effects of a low-carb diet on acid reflux and GERD. Source: Internet

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