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The Atkins’ Diet
Developed by dr. robert atkins in the 1960s, the atkins diet achieved most of its fame during the last few years. Although highly controversial, it supposedly allows fat reduction but still allows you to eat many foods that are not normally available to dieters, eg beef and eggs.
With the atkins diet it is considered good to eat fat and protein, it is the carbs that must be avoided. Because of this, it is known as a low carbohydrate/high protein, weight loss program.
With this diet, the foods you should avoid are processed and refined sugar, milk, white bread, starchy vegetables, white rice and white flour, amongst them, cereals and pasta made from white flour.
Unlike other diets, on the atkins diet the foods you are encouraged to eat are still nutrient-rich unprocessed foods like meat, fish & poultry. You also can eat shellfish, regular full fat cheese, butter and olive oil.

The Atkins’ Diet Theory
The logic behind the famous atkins diet is that although our bodies use both fats and carbohydrates to transform into glucose, it is the carbohydrates that are burned first. If we injest less carbohydrates, our bodies will use up our fat and we will reduce weight. This is the bit that is divisive, not all experts concur and many think it can sometimes be unsafe.













Almond Flavored Tequila Liqueur Recipe
Almond Flavored Tequila Liqueur Category Alcoholic Drink Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

8 oz Unpeeled almonds; dark

. roasted (see note) 1/2 Vanilla bean; split

1 Stick cinnamon; 3 inch

1 Bottle gold tequila

2 tb Spicy piloncillo syrup; see

. other recipe 1/4 ts Pure almond extract

? 'h teaspoon pure almond extract Note: Place nuts on baking sheet in 325-degree preheated oven and toast until dark brown, turning occasionally. When done, remove from pan to prevent overcooking. Coarsely chop nuts. Place in jar along with the vanilla bean and cinnamon stick. Coverwith tequila and steep for 2 weeks in cool, dark place, shaking gently occasionally (a murky sediment is natural). Strain several times through paper coffee filters. Add syrup and almond extract in small increments, tasting after each addition, until satisfied with flavor. Pour into sterilized dark-colored jar: allow to set for 2 weeks, adding more syrup if needed. Pour into pretty decorative jars for gifts. Serve either poured into hot coffee or served over ice in brandy snifters with a twist of lemon . Nutritlional analsis per ounce: 106 calories, 4 grams fat, 3 grams carbohydrates, 0 cholesterol, 1 milligram sodium, 35 percent of calories from fat . Source: Tequila: Cooking with the Spirit of Mexico ** Fort Worth Star Telegram -- Food section -- 29 November 1995 **

 
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