| The Atkins diet isn't as popular as it once was. I | | | | thing. |
| remember my mother being into Atkins in the | | | | Here's a recipe for a high protein diet bread: |
| early 2000's; for a while, I thought it was the best | | | | Water - 1.25 cups |
| idea ever. Who wouldn't love a diet that asked | | | | Vegetable oil - 1.5 tablespoons |
| you to eat as much bacon as you could? | | | | Honey - 1.5 tablespoons |
| The basic idea was to eat more protein at the | | | | Salt - 1 teaspoon |
| expense of carbohydrates. Theory being that the | | | | Wheat germ - 3 tablespoons |
| body will burn carbs first if they are around, but if | | | | Soy Flour - 1.33 cups |
| they aren't, the body will burn fat. So, up the fat | | | | Whole Wheat Flour - 1.33 cups |
| content of your diet and decrease the carb | | | | Bread Flour - 1.66 cups |
| content. The diet can be hard to follow, especially | | | | Dry Milk - One third of a cup |
| in the first two weeks. | | | | Yeast - 2 Teaspoons |
| The movement lost momentum (unfairly, really) | | | | Warning - you might be able to guess based on |
| when Dr. Atkins himself died of a massive | | | | the recipe that this isn't going to be a light, fluffy |
| heart-attack. Whoops. | | | | loaf. With more flour and wheat germ than we're |
| That said, there still is a crowd that does the | | | | used to seeing, this is going to be a pretty dense |
| Atkins thing. Hell, you don't really have to be into | | | | loaf. It still tastes pretty good though, and you'll |
| Atkins: if you're a body builder or you're working | | | | be contributing towards your protein quota by |
| out or just plain growing, lots of protein is a good | | | | eating it. |