Consumer Reports & Low Carb Foods

The latest issue of Consumer Reports has an interesting article about
low carb comfort foods.

According to Consumer Reports there are many new low carb comfort food
products like ice creams, cookies, cakes, etc.

Consumer Reports claims that these products have the same amount of
calories or even more calories then the regular versions of these treats.

The article warned that people can stay within their daily carb limits
with these low carb junk foods, but still take in a large enough number
of calories to sabatoge their weight loss.

I couldn't find a link for the article on their web site but you should
be able to find the article in their latest issue.

I wouldn't buy the magazine as they don't have much more to say then
what I have just typed.



Steve

On 5/16/04 10:17 PM, in article , "Steve"
wrote:

Consumer Reports claims that these products have the same amount of
calories or even more calories then the regular versions of these treats.

The article warned that people can stay within their daily carb limits
with these low carb junk foods, but still take in a large enough number
of calories to sabatoge their weight loss.

That is indisputably true.

The low-carb-at-any-calorie-price fad is going to prove as big a bust as the
low-fat fad was.

doug

Doug Lerner wrote:

On 5/16/04 10:17 PM, in article , "Steve"
wrote:

Consumer Reports claims that these products have the same amount of
calories or even more calories then the regular versions of these treats.

The article warned that people can stay within their daily carb limits
with these low carb junk foods, but still take in a large enough number
of calories to sabatoge their weight loss.

That is indisputably true.

The low-carb-at-any-calorie-price fad is going to prove as big a bust as
the low-fat fad was.

doug

And it's too bad, too. Because it diverts attention from the real foods
that can be enjoyed on a low-carb way of life. By and large, the media has
painted a highly erroneous picture of low-carb. Most everything, from news
reports to satires, paint it as a diet in which you ignore all other food
groups and concentrate on cream, butter, bacon, eggs, and steak.
Based on this assumption, those low carb substitute foods would most
certainly seem to be a necessity.

That's entirely a different thing from the low-carb way of life I am
enjoying, centered around a wide variety of real foods. There are a few
people out there who "get it", so there is hope.

--
The post you just read, unless otherwise noted, is strictly my opinion
and experience. Please interpret accordingly.

Maybe I'm strange.. But in almost a year of losing and living what I
feel is a pretty low carb WOL/E(-30 carbs a day) I've yet to purchase
any product that is labeled "low carb" or friendly or whatever the
current catch phrase is. I am one of those people who can't see the
sense in substituting foods. If I want a tortilla with my meal for
example. I eat one, I simply compensate for that amt of carbs somewhere
else in my daily intake. Those in particular are tasteless to me, like
eating cardboard. I also don't do the substitute the sugar thing either.
To me there is no such thing as a "safe" candy, cookie or sweet. And
I've found that if even if I do eat a sugar free but "sweet" item, I
just want more. I know me too well. I know that the next time it might
be a small handful of m&m's or something. Then the next time the bag..
etc. That's not a risk I am prepared to take yet in my WOE. Maybe
someday I will. For that matter I don't substitute protein either,
bar's, shakes etc. I try to make sure that my intake is not from
processed or packaged food.
Sounds boring I know, but it works for me. I don't reward myself with
food any longer sweet or otherwise. Food is fuel. I no longer eat
recreationally or because its polite to do so.

Susan
260/193/140

"Steve" wrote in message
...
The latest issue of Consumer Reports has an interesting article about
low carb comfort foods.

According to Consumer Reports there are many new low carb comfort food
products like ice creams, cookies, cakes, etc.

Consumer Reports claims that these products have the same amount of
calories or even more calories then the regular versions of these
treats.

The article warned that people can stay within their daily carb limits
with these low carb junk foods, but still take in a large enough
number
of calories to sabatoge their weight loss.

I couldn't find a link for the article on their web site but you
should
be able to find the article in their latest issue.

I wouldn't buy the magazine as they don't have much more to say then
what I have just typed.



Steve

On 5/17/04 1:37 AM, in article , "Ignoramus29075"
wrote:

In article , Doug Lerner wrote:
On 5/16/04 10:17 PM, in article , "Steve"
wrote:

Consumer Reports claims that these products have the same amount of
calories or even more calories then the regular versions of these treats.

The article warned that people can stay within their daily carb limits
with these low carb junk foods, but still take in a large enough number
of calories to sabatoge their weight loss.

That is indisputably true.

The low-carb-at-any-calorie-price fad is going to prove as big a bust as the
low-fat fad was.

doug


Doug, while I agree with you, let's not forget, these low carb labeled
junk foods are not even low carb, in reality.

That is true of a lot of junk foods. But I wasn't even thinking of sugar
alcohols and whatnot. Even true low-carb snacks can be high enough in
calories to wreck a weight loss diet. Think of cheese and nuts.

doug

On Sun, 16 May 2004 21:27:59 GMT, "susanjoneslewis"
wrote:

Maybe I'm strange.. But in almost a year of losing and living what I
feel is a pretty low carb WOL/E(-30 carbs a day) I've yet to purchase
any product that is labeled "low carb" or friendly or whatever the
current catch phrase is. I am one of those people who can't see the
sense in substituting foods. If I want a tortilla with my meal for
example. I eat one, I simply compensate for that amt of carbs somewhere
else in my daily intake. Those in particular are tasteless to me, like
eating cardboard. I also don't do the substitute the sugar thing either.
To me there is no such thing as a "safe" candy, cookie or sweet. And
I've found that if even if I do eat a sugar free but "sweet" item, I
just want more. I know me too well. I know that the next time it might
be a small handful of m&m's or something. Then the next time the bag..
etc. That's not a risk I am prepared to take yet in my WOE. Maybe
someday I will. For that matter I don't substitute protein either,
bar's, shakes etc. I try to make sure that my intake is not from
processed or packaged food.

I don't follow a low carb WOE, but what you say makes sense to me
Susan. I don't like substitute foods if I can avoid them, and above
all I don't eat things I don't like just because they are so-called
"diet" or "healthy" foods. I like to eat real food and if I don't
like the taste of one food I'll find something else equivalent that I
do enjoy.

janice

In article , Doug Lerner
writes
That is true of a lot of junk foods. But I wasn't even thinking of sugar
alcohols and whatnot. Even true low-carb snacks can be high enough in
calories to wreck a weight loss diet. Think of cheese and nuts.

I try not to! They certainly made things tough for me until I
eliminated them.
--
Jane Lumley

"Ignoramus29075" wrote in message

True. I am giving up nuts for this reason, they are healthy and all,
but they make it difficult for me to control how much I eat.

Different strokes for different folks. I just read an article in Prevention
magazine that said eating nuts is actually very good in helping to control
food intake.

"linda-renee" wrote in message
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"Ignoramus29075" wrote in message

True. I am giving up nuts for this reason, they are healthy and all,
but they make it difficult for me to control how much I eat.

Different strokes for different folks. I just read an article in
Prevention
magazine that said eating nuts is actually very good in helping to control
food intake.


Maybe so, but if eating a few nuts makes a person really want to eat more
food (nuts or anything else), then there are better ways to control food
intake. I can only eat nuts in the context of some sliced almonds in a
salad or in my green beans. If I actually ate the almonds alone (or other
nuts), I'd want to keep eating them in spite of hunger or lack thereof.

OTOH, I can eat chocolate 20 days out of the month and limit myself to one
piece and not even think about it. Like you said, different strokes.

linda-renee wrote:

Different strokes for different folks. I just read an article in Prevention
magazine that said eating nuts is actually very good in helping to control
food intake.

I think I read that article too, and IMHO the message was that eating
nuts ( and the article mentioned measured amounts ) could help one get
thin by filling people up so they would eat less.

This is along the same line as the Consumer Reports warning to stay away
from the idea of feeling fine with "taking the food and shoving it",
regardless of calories, as long as you obey some fad diet rule.

Steve