Sugar Alcohols-Sandy: was- Re: Artificial sweeteners

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Sandy,

All those " sugar-alcohols " may or may not cause bg to rise in " your body " .

This is another of those very YMMV things.]

Personally, I can eat things with sugar-alcohols and they don't effect my

bg's (so far!).

But others have reported that they seem to have the same effect as sugar.

I'd suggest that you give the " erythritol " a try in a controlled experiment

with that as the only variable. Your meter will tell you how " your body "

responds to that particular food product.

Don't beat yourself up over this. It's an honest mistake that may not turn

out to be a mistake after all.

Testing will tell.

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, T2, dx'ed 4/98 with Fasting bg 350mg/dl & HbA1c 15.5%

Controlling until last month with LC-D & very little E

Average Fasting bg 105mg/dl, Last HbA1c 6.0%

7+ Year Historical HbA1c 5.6%-6.0%

Now Experimenting with Metformin, Glyburide & " Merlot Therapy " for HbA1c

nearer 5.0%

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>>> Hi all,

I recently purchased some erythritol as I wanted to get something I felt

better about than splenda. At first I was going to get xylitol but someone

on one of the groups said erythritol was better (I think less GI maybe?)

But I just got the erythritol in and it has 15 carbs (sugar alcohols 15) -

yikes. That isn't what I wanted and won't use it due to that. I hate

throwing stuff out. Guess I should have looked at the label better before

ordering from netrition.com. I did go back to the site I should have

ordered from as I see they have the artificial sweeteners with only 4

carbs - but they list Laxation threshhold - what does this mean?

http://www.globalsweet.com/Xylitol-Nutr.html

I hardly use any sweetener but just a bit on my hot cereal every morning and

the books I read say use xylitol or stevia (not splenda etc) so I was trying

to use the best.

I'm mad at myself for not checking the carbs on this brand of erythritol

now.

Sandy <<<