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Bruce[_28_]

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> "Bruce" > wrote in message
> T...
> > In article >,
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> >> On Tuesday, August 9, 2016 at 9:30:12 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
> >> > In article >, says...
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> >> > > "Bruce" > wrote in message
> >> > > T...
> >> > > > In article >,
> >> > > > says...
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> >> > > >> 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.
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> There is no difference in a piece of birthday cake or pasta, potato or rice
> as far as blood sugar spikes go.

You're talking from a diabetic point of view. That's not relevant to me.