If you eat something with sugar alcohols in it and find you are eating a lot
more at your next meal, it's possible you got a bigger insulin spike than
you realized from the sugar alcohol.

Those of us with blood sugar meters can observe the rise. Sugar alcohols do
raise my blood sugar contrary to label claims. I don't get the runs from
them, though they do give me gas.

Finally, don't forget that the sugar alcohol laden foods are almost all HIGH
CALORIE. Low carbing used to work by helping you eliminate a lot of
calories from your diet because you couldn't eat junk food because it didn't
exists. Now that low carb junk food is in every convenience store, you can
easily eat an additional 1,000 calories a day of "low carb" bars, ice cream,
and candy. The calories alone may be enough to eliminate any caloric deficit
and stop weight loss.

The safest plan with the sugar alcohols is to count ALL the carbs listed on
the labels and all the calories until you establish whether you, personally,
can lose weight at a rate you are happy with while including them in your
diet. Some can, many cannot.
--
Jenny

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"Preesi" wrote in message
...
Frank Lynch wrote:
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 09:16:08 -0800, in a clarity of expression
resembling Cicero, Karen Rodgers
wrote:

if they give you the
runs, you probably don't need to count the [sugar alcohol] carbs.
If sugar alcohol doesn't make you gassy, and give you diarea, count
them.

What kind of runs did you mean. if not diahrrea?


Wait! what about E-tol?
That rarely gives gas or the runs!
How can you tell if it counts?

preesi