Thu, Jun-10-04, 11:56
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Posts: 539
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Plan: good fat low carb
Stats: 255/170/170
BF:
Progress: 100%
Location: USA
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dana carpenters carb blocker test::
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I did not post the article in full, so you need to read her whole article ^.
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I did modestly extensive tests of my blood sugar when I was trying to determine if those widely advertised "carb blocker" pills work...
I took my fasting blood sugar...
I then ate a carefully measured portion of the food I was testing - for the carb blocker tests I used, alternately, either 1 cup of brown rice with a little "Butter Buds" - I didn't want to alter the results by adding a lot of butter into the equation - or 2 slices of toasted 100% whole grain rye bread, a dense, heavy, chewy bread with conveniently equal-sized slices that I get from the local health food store. I did split 1 teaspoon of butter between the two slices of rye bread..
I then took another blood sugar measurement approximately every 15 minutes for 3 hours or so..
Having established my body's reaction to a goodly dose of relatively benign carbohydrates... I then re-did the tests, taking the carb blockers, eating the same quantities of the same foods..
When I did the tests by taking the carb blockers according to the package directions - ie, 1 capsule 15 - 20 minutes before eating the carbohydrate food - they did not work at all. I got virtually identical blood sugar readings as I had when I had tested the foods without taking the carb blockers...
when I redid the tests taking 3 carb blocker capsules, one just as I started to eat the rice or rye bread, and another 2 halfway through eating, I found that there was some result. Not a huge, phenomenal result, you understand - just some result. My blood sugar still went up fairly high, and came back down again, so my body was, indeed, digesting and absorbing at least the majority of the carbs I ate. However, my blood sugar came down more slowly, instead of crashing down the way it had without the carb blockers. This would appear to mean - and I want to make it clear, this is only a hypothesis - that my body was not secreting as much insulin, as rapidly, as it had without the carb blockers...
One last caveat: These things work only modestly on starches; they do not work at all on sugar. Be warned.
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HTH!
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