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INGREDIENTS

• 1 1/2 cups dry white wine
  
• 1 1/4 cups heavy cream
  
• 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
  
• 4 ounces Gorgonzola cheese, crumbled
  
• 1 pinch ground nutmeg
  
• black pepper to taste

DIRECTIONS

1. In medium saucepan, cook white wine over high heat until reduced by half. Add cream, reduce heat, and cook until reduced by one-third. Add parmesan, gorgonzola and nutmeg. Stir until cheeses melt and sauce is creamy.

Wine Tip
Try with an  Italian red  from Piedmont like Barbaresco or Barolo. 

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ORIGINAL: sophia37

Sounds like the Atkins diet to me. 

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

side pork.

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ORIGINAL: Zensee

I think the stone age predates Dr. Atkins - lol. Atkins was derived from similar diets in the past, just better marketed. Paleo diets avoid the kinds of heavily processed foods produced for Atkins followers though.

"Basically: if our ancestors could pick it from a bush or catch it with a spear, you can eat it. The rule is that a food is healthy, if you could have eaten it in its raw state. This is a naturally occurring "low to medium carbohydrate" way of eating." (A quote from one of the links.)

Peas, beans, potatoes, rice, grains; most agricultural plant foods are restricted or eliminated. The basic argument being that we have not evolved to deal with the "anti-nutrients" these plants produce to protect themselves from predation. Cooking reduces these protective chemicals but does not eliminate them.

Some links that might help:

http://paleodiet.com/
http://www.nerdheaven.dk/~jevk/paleo_intro.php
http://www.earth360.com/diet_paleodiet_balzer.html



Z.

Yes, no low-carb bars

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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

Maybe it's all that talk of pasta that made you guys think of your respective noodles!

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Diet-wise, I ate the universally recommended high-carbohydrate, low-fat foods: lots of rice, lentils, pasta, oats, fish, chicken and fruit and veg, but little red meat.

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ORIGINAL: lucern

I find it interesting, and telling, that so much emphasis is placed on the diet and so little on the constant, life or death activity of being nomadic.  Nomadic people would consume all the fat they could out of necessity.  They rarely had the kind of access to meat that exists in this diet.  When they did, of course, they gorged on it to its last.  This active lifestyle changed whenever people took up agriculture, so the agricultural reasoning of the diet, at least, is overblown.

In any case, if you found time to be active for every minute of daylight, it wouldn't matter so much what you ate as long as you were getting nutrients. 

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ORIGINAL: CuriousLord

I've been a big fan of building muscles to lose weight.  Even if you lose the muscles afterwards.  To me, it's just easier and less painful.