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David and Joanne DeVries have lost a combined 65 pounds since cutting sugar, refined starch and — gulp — craft beer from their diet.

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“My younger brother had a heart attack and he did some research and went to this style of eating and dropped 60 pounds in three months and his blood work was almost perfect,” said Joanne, 52. “His blood pressure dropped like a rock, it was just amazing.”

Until January 4, Joanne served dessert more often than not and sometimes grabbed a chocolate bar for a lift in the afternoon.

In just a little more than two months of eating low-carb high-fat meals, both report greater mental clarity and consistent energy.

“I feel so much different, I’m no longer tired, I don’t get the mid-afternoon crash,” she said. “When your body switches from burning sugar to burning fat, the feeling is almost euphoric.”

Joanne has stopped taking statin drugs for high cholesterol.

“I had been reading a lot about low-carb diets and I came across new information about high fat and how saturated fat does not in fact cause heart disease,” she said. “We needed to get our weight under control and so we tried it and I will never go back.”