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If you want to experiment with this idea yourself (and I recommend that you do), instead of just taking my word for it or risking your life on the sales desires of snack food manufacturers, use your own blood glucose meter. You can buy them readily and without a prescription at any drug store. Test your blood when you first arise each morning, for a week. Test again about two hours after a breakfast of bacon and eggs, but without toast, without juice, or other carbs every day during the same week. Make sure your breakfast is all protein and fats – no carbs. Coffee or tea is fine, with heavy cream if you like, and possibly some Sweet & Low or Stevia. This will give you a baseline average reading on your glucose meter for later comparison. Write down your numbers and take an average for the week. Then for breakfast one morning, include one or two pieces of toast. Look on the bread label to see what the actual carbohydrate content of each slice is. A slice of bread has an average of from 12 to 21 grams of carbohydrates depending on a number of factors. For this part of your experiment, you should be consuming about 21 grams of carbohydrates in your toasted bread. Then, note the reading on your meter, testing two hours after breakfast. It should be noticeably higher. The next morning, instead of the toast, include one of the “low carb” snack bars with a low number of “net carbs” on the front label but with about 21 grams of actual carbs on the back label. Again, test with your meter two hours after you eat and note that reading. If this reading for the snack bar is similar to the breakfast that included toast, you know that the “net carb” theory doesn’t work for you either. If this is the case for you, you’ll always have to look at that actual carbohydrate content on the back of labels and disregard the “net carbs” advertising on the fronts of packages. A note of caution – some type II diabetics don’t register the effects of carb loading for 36 to 48 hours, so the above testing may need to be altered to reflect this if you discover that you fall into that category.
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