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The benefits of low-carb diet

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We are told that eating fat will make you fat. It is actually when you eat fat and too many carbohydrates. When you consume carbohydrates, they are converted into glucose . The pancreas then secretes insulin to reduce the blood glucose levels. Insulin is our fat storing hormone and fat burning is turned off. If we have very little amounts of carbohydrates in our diet, we require less insulin, thus store less fat and able to burn fat. Different people can tolerate, and remain healthy, with large amounts of carbohydrates and some virtually none (diabetics). Also when we get older, our ability to handle carbohydrates get lessened and we may get pre-diabetes or insulin resistance (type 2 diabetes). When we consume too many carbs, our body will produce more insulin to help reduce the large amount of glucose now in our blood, leading to  insulin resistance . So what is low-carb? A low-carb diet limits carbohydrates — which are found in grains, starchy vegetables and fruit — and em
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Low-carb Cheese Biscotti

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prep time: 45 minutes cook time: 70 minutes yield: 60 servings
These crunchy biscotti are great appetizers as well as snacks if you’re a cheese lover. Biscotti are baked twice. Baking twice may sound like double the work, but actually it’s a quite easy process. You bake the dough once in the form of mini-loaves, slice the them, and bake the slices as if they were cookies or crackers.
Ingredients for these biscotti:

  • 4 ounces cream cheese, soft
  • 4 tablespoons butter (1 ⁄2 stick), soft 
  • 4 egg yolks
  • 8 ounces grated sharp cheddar cheese
  • 1 ⁄4 cup unbleached, all-purpose wheat (white) flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 ⁄4 cup vital wheat gluten flour
  • 1 1 ⁄4 cups whole almond meal

Instruction:

1.  Once prepared, the dough will need to be refrigerated, so preheatoven to 325˚F shortly before taking dough from the fridge.

2.  Beat cream cheese, butter, and two egg yolks in the bowl of anelectric mixer with a flat beater until thick, smooth, and creamy. Addthe last two egg yolks and beat for another minute. Add all remainingingredients, stirring in at slow speed or by hand. Refrigerate doughfor about 30 minutes or until it can be handled without sticking.

3.  Shape dough in four rolls about 13⁄4 inches in diameter and 10inches long. Set the rolls on a nonstick, heavy-gauge metal cookiesheet and flatten them into bars about 2 inches wide and 3
⁄4 inch high.

4.  Bake for about 19 to 22 minutes or until golden.Set oven temperature to 225˚F. Put the cooled cheese bars on a cutting board and slice each bar in about 15 pieces (use a sharp, serratedknife). Set pieces upright on the cookie sheet. Bake the biscotti until they have a light golden color, about 45 minutes (always checkearly—do not let them turn too dark). Allow the biscotti to cool, harden, and dry completely.

Nutritional value per pie:
  • Calories 61
  • Fat 5g
  • Protein 3g
  • Carbs 1g
  • Fiber 1g



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