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The Atkins’ Diet
Originating way back in the 1960s, the atkins diet achieved most of its fame during the last decade. Having many well known film stars amongst its supporters, it enables weight loss whilst encouraging you to eat many of the foods you love, like pork and egg and cheese.
With this diet it is considered good to eat fat and protein, avoiding carbohydrates almost completely. It is often referred to as a low carbohydrate, high protein, diet.
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, with the atkins diet the foods you are encouraged to eat are still nutrient-rich unprocessed foods such as meat, fish and poultry. You also can eat shellfish, regular full fat cheese, butter & olive oil.

The Atkins’ Diet Theory
The logic of the atkins diet is that if we take in fewer carbohydrates, our bodies will utilise the fat we have stored and we will become thinner















Salt-And-Pepper Spicy Shrimp Recipe
Salt-And-Pepper Spicy Shrimp Category Spicy Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

2 tb Salt

1 lb Large shrimp

- unpeeled and deveined 2 ts Coarse or kosher salt

1 ts Roasted Sichuan peppercorns

-(ground) 1 ts Sugar

2 tb Finely chopped garlic

2 ts Minced peeled fresh ginger

2 tb Finely chopped scallions

2 Fresh red chile peppers

- coarsely chopped 2 c Peanut oil; for deep frying

TO CLEAN THE SHRIMP, remove the feathery legs and blot the shrimp dry with paper towels. In a small bowl, combine the coarse salt, peppercorns, and sugar and set aside. In another small bowl, combine the garlic, ginger, scallions and the chopped chilies. Heat a wok or deep skillet until it is hot and add the oil. When the oil is very hot and smoking, add the shrimp and deep-fry for about 1 minute or until they are pink. Remove them immediately with a slotted spoon and drain well. Pour off all but 1 1/2 tablespoons of the oil and reheat the wok. Add the salt-peppercorns-sugar mixture and stir-fry for 10 seconds. Add the garlic-ginger-scallion-chiles mixture and stir-fry for 10 seconds. Return the shrimp to the wok and stir-fry over high heat for about 2 minutes until the spices have thoroughly coated the outer shell of the shrimp. Transfer the shrimp to a serving platter and serve at once.

 
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