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Old Mon, Oct-20-03, 19:15
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Plan: Bernstein Diabetes Soluti
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Look under the nutritional breakdown for the recipe. See the little colored boxes? The boxes show that the recipe is acceptable for stages 1, 2, 3, and 4 of Atkins which correspond to Induction, OWL, Pre-maintainance, and Maintainance. When a recipe is not acceptable for induction, the 1 is left off. If it is only acceptable for pre-maintainance or maintainance, you will only see boxes 3 and 4. Yes, pork rinds have quite a bit of sodium, but they also have zero carbs for the unflavored ones and so would be a suitable snack for induction and as you can see, are useful in recipes as fillers or breading. Pork is allowed on induction, pig skin is allowed on induction and fat is allowed on induction...this is all that pork rinds are...rendered pig skins with the fat attached that are salted. For that matter, they're not much different than crispy bacon without the nitrates.

Regarding the protein intake. Atkins doesn't give specific recommendations for protein, but Protein Power does. The amounts given are for minimums and they state that it is not a problem to exceed those minimums by a good bit if you feel that you need it to be satisfied. In general, it's better to be getting a bit too much than to not be getting enough.

There's nothing wrong with giving an opinion, but be careful about presenting it as indisputable fact, ie "Pork rinds are not allowed on induction". A better way to have phrased that is "I don't think pork rinds are allowed on induction". See the difference?
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