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The First Low Carb Diet
January 23rd, 2012
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Dr Robert Atkins is often believed to have invented the low carbohydrate diet when he developed and published his Atkins Diet in the 1960s/70s. But the truth is that low carb diets were being followed and even prescribed by doctors long before Dr Atkins popularized them for the general public.
Many people believe that the diet followed by human beings in prehistory, before the development of agriculture, was a low carbohydrate diet. At this time people would have eaten whatever was available to them. This was the time of the ‘hunter-gatherers’.
In some places, there would be a lot of fruit available, and it might even have been the main food source for some people. That would not be a low carbohydrate diet. But in cooler climates, people would have relied more on hunting animals, and the diet would have been high in protein and low in carbohydrates.
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January 23rd, 2012
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There are so many low carb chicken recipes available these days that there is no excuse for eating the same old same old day after day. If you like chicken, you can eat extremely well on a low carbohydrate diet.
Of course, you have to avoid anything that is coated or served with a sauce if you don’t know what is in it, but there are plenty of choices for dishes that you can make at home. Here are some example low carb chicken recipes to start you off.
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