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Cheri[_3_]

"Bruce" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> says...
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>> On Tuesday, August 9, 2016 at 9:30:12 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
>> > In article >, says...
>> > >
>> > > "Bruce" > wrote in message
>> > > T...
>> > > > In article >,
>> > > > says...
>> > > >>
>> > > >> Goes to show how ignorant you are about low carb diets.
>> > > >
>> > > > I imagine someone with a kilo of steak and a kilo of lettuce on
>> > > > their
>> > > > plate, proudly saying they're low carbing. No?
>> > >
>> > > Not anyone I know. I have low carbed for a whole lot of years, and I
>> > > actually don't eat a lot. I imagine that if someone just tries it as
>> > > a lark
>> > > or something, that might be the case, but long term low carbers are
>> > > satisfied with quite a bit less since you don't have all those carbs
>> > > swirling around making you hungrier.
>> >
>> > I don't understand how carbs mnake you hungrier. If I leave out the
>> > bread from my bread and cheese breakfast, I'm hungry again after 30
>> > minutes.
>>
>> Are you talking squishy white bread, which is what many Americans
>> eat, or about real, whole-grain bread?
>
> Just real bread. Or potato, pasta, rice. Those seem to me things that
> fill you, not things that make you hungry. I understand that people want
> to limit their intake of them, but to say that they make you hungry...?
>
>> I know that if I have, say, a piece of birthday cake at work for
>> someone's celebration, I'm hangry and sleepy about 45 minutes
>> later. First the carbs spike your blood sugar, then comes the
>> crash.
>
> But that's mainly sugar, candy almost.

There is no difference in a piece of birthday cake or pasta, potato or rice
as far as blood sugar spikes go.

Cheri