Wed, Dec-24-14, 04:53
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Plan: P:E/DDF
Stats: 225/150/169
BF:45%/28%/25%
Progress: 134%
Location: NC
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Also from the Atkins website
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Not all types of carbohydrates behave the same way in your body. For example, when your body digests table sugar, it turns it immediately into blood sugar. Other carbs, such as sugar alcohols, have a minimal impact on blood-sugar levels. Still other carbs, such as dietary fiber, pass through your body without having any impact on blood-sugar level. To date, the FDA has not focused on these important biochemical differences and treats all carbohydrates alike.
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Not only do some LC researchers question this bit of Atkins wisdom, many individuals who test BGs find this is not true for them.
Even if Net Carbs works for you, the other issue is food quality. I read under the Atkins 40 page they still encourage 15g foundation vegetables (how many will follow this part?) but also now allow 25g other carbs. That's a lot of bars filled with questionable ingredients. On a LC FB I read, someone was complaining about how expensive Atkins is because the Pizzas are $4. At 11 net carbs, she can eat 2 a day. No mention that the first pizza ingredients in a very long list of unpronounceable chemicals are wheat gluten, cornstarch and soybean oil.
NANY is a good program that encourages higher vegetable consumption and allowed only an occasional product treat. On the Atkins website, this book is now recommended for "the science" and has been replaced by Atkins Made Easy, written by the Atkins dietician with a meal plan that is primarily frozen meals, bars and shakes. Atkins 40 will likely extend that marketing approach to more frozen meals and products, kits in Walmart, etc. |