Atkinites...It's coming - low carb pizza dough

[dutchdemocrat]

DIET: Pizza, Hold the Crust? Pizza Makers Painfully Consider Low-Carb Dough

By Martin Finucane Associated Press Writer
Published: Feb 3, 2004



BOSTON (AP) - Pizza might be hailed as the food of the gods, one of America's best-loved meals, a hearty delectable dish that fills the stomach and seems to soothe the soul.
But to low-carb dieters, it's just a gut-busting disk of dough.

And that has caused pizza makers around the nation to wonder if the low-carb craze will force changes in one of America's best-loved foods.

They're saying, "Hey, we've got a problem here. Pizza's built on bread. It's the No. 1 enemy of the Atkinites," said Tom Boyles, senior editor of PMQ Magazine, a publication that follows the pizza industry.

Boyles has a word for those who want to avoid carbohydrates: "carbavoids."

Although industry sales haven't taken a hit yet, some pizza operators are considering offering customers low-carb pizzas.

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[jpgray]

1. Italy has about 6% obesity in its population

We have somewhere near 40%.

It ain't the flippin' bread by itself. Low carb bread, pizza or pasta is just an abomination. :D

(anyway, if Atkins works for you and you feel healthy, don't listen to me!)

[dutchdemocrat]

2. I find this as perplexing

I find this as perplexing as the Janet Jackson Probe and witch titty hunt soon to be driven with by congress with public funds.

What's next? Following in the Burger King vein and offering doughless pizza from the Hut? "Get you're cheesy, pepperoni sludge here!"

'Americana' is very strange sometimes.

Burger King Bunless Burger

[Habibi]

3. Yes, it is odd

However, for some of us, low-carb has worked where other eating plans have not. I guess that's the bottom line.

I wonder what the difference is with the Italians? I'd love to go back to a pasta-and-bread diet!

[dutchdemocrat]

4. Red wine, garlic and olive oil.

Red wine, garlic and olive oil.

Like the French.

Lots of the above seems to work wonders.

[Habibi]

5. Oh, if only

that were true. Those were and are staples of my diet. I still put on the weight, slowly and steadily, even watching the calories and exercising. (Thank you, middle age!) So it's gotta be something besides that stuff. Atkins has worked a freaking miracle, what can I say? But I miss my crusty baguette and my full-carb pasta with pesto.

[dutchdemocrat]

7. Working out is key in my case

I have a very slow metabolism and have had to resort to the gym now as middle age approaches. I have not changed my heavy Mediterranean diet and the excess is melting off.

Working out is key in my case. Just getting off the computer (my work) and moving my body on a machine has done wonders.

Each to their own I guess.

*smile*

[Habibi]

8. For some reason

vigorous exercise just wasn't doing it for me. I thought it was because I was female and peri-menopausal but a friend who's male and 10 years younger was having the same problem: exercise till yer blue in the face and if you're lucky you'd lose a pound every 6 months. We both went on Atkins and are pleased with the results. I don't get it, though. My fella is on it too, and is losing like a sonofabitch, and he doesn't exercise at all.

You're right: whatever!

[curlyred]

13. The mediterranean diet is interesting

If we followed the whole livestyle, we could anticipate the same results. The last article I read about this issue indicated that as countries become more "americanized" they experience the same helath issues Americans do.

[pansypoo53219]

6. meanwhile in one of the fattes cities Milwaukee, WI

i don't exercise, i eat mostly bread/noodles, carbs. and sugars! AND BUTTER. am over 30. and i am still at a low to good H2W ratio. go figure.
but then i do not have spawn. or eat fast food(oh my god-she cooks)

you can take the pasta and potatos of of cold dead hands,

[Habibi]

9. Now then!

If only they could discover that a high-fat, high-carb diet worked for most people, I'd be SO on that!

[ldoolin]

10. I've already seen it

The local health food store has a big low carb section.

Including low-carb frozen pizzas. Yep, with dough made of soy protein. I wasn't impressed.

Of course you could always make your own pizza dough using stone ground whole wheat flour, which is definitely legal for Sugar Busters and The Zone, and may be Atkins legal as well.

[Lars39]

11. So true whole wheat is acceptable?

I'm not on Atkins. I make 50/50 wheat/white bread, but I've been thinking of bumping us all the way to 100% wheat.

[BigDaddyLove]

14. Eating white bread (or flour) is like eating table sugar......

there's nothing nutritional about it; it's already been digested long before it gets to you.

[BigDaddyLove]

12. That's what I was planning on trying one of these days.....

(making my own with the whole wheat flour that is) and seeing how it turns out.