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Julie Bove[_2_]

"Cheri" > wrote in message
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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
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>>> > > > In article >,
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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?
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>> 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.

There could be, depending on the amount of fat in it.