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Did you know? About Sugar!

post #1 of 6
1/13/09 at 9:53am
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4 grams sugar OR 4 grams carbs equal 1 teaspoon of sugar

WOW! So when people tell you something is sugar free, PLEASE ask how many carbs. Something with 50 carbs really has 12.5 sugars! So please remember to count those carbs and turn them into sugar also. You may be surprised at how bad your favorite foods are!

Just divide the carbs by 4 and that gives you your sugar amount!

This is something I had to learn as a diabetic and it stinks. It quickly eliminated a lot of food...lol
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post #2 of 6
1/13/09 at 11:49am

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Yikes!! Thanks for letting us know, Wendy.
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post #3 of 6
1/13/09 at 8:55pm

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I did something similar when I first bc diabetic, I started eating a lot of pasta thinking that there was no sugar in pasta boy was I wrong, anything that has carbs in it gets converted to sugar by your body (hence the statement that carbs are fuel for the body, your body uses the sugar for energy)

something else I learnt was that any ingrediant that ends in ...ose, is a sugar IE: Fructose (fruit sugar), glucose etc etc.
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post #4 of 6
1/13/09 at 9:03pm
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Oh I know, Maree and I LOVE LOVE pasta! Not just a little bit but I'm a pasta junkie..LOL. I save pasta for when Den and I go out to dinner since they can make it better than me.
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post #5 of 6
1/14/09 at 10:52am

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I have got to stay away from carbs. That is the only way I cn keep the weight off.
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post #6 of 6
1/18/09 at 2:53am

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The recent "low carb" pastas are actually really good. I have been buying wheat pasta for years simply beacuse I really like them more than regular. When things got tight, I went back to buiying the "cheap" stuff and noticed immediated how cranky Rick got! (within less than 1 hour!). Deefinitely worth paying more for the good stuff!
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