[CyberTOPS] carbohydrate/fiber

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I received my diabetes Self-Management book today  in it  was a  article on 
carbs and fiber 
When counting carbs it is not necessary to know how much sugar a food item  
contains  remember sugars are just a type of carbs and are included in the  
total carbs listed on the label
So that's it right?  almost you may have to make a slight adjustment  if the 
food contains fiber and sugar alcohol  For food items that contain  either of 
these you should do the following
Subtract all the fiber grams from the total carbs count since fiber does  not 
raise blood glucose  for example  food item counting 24 g of total  carbs and 
6 g of fiber should be counted as 18 g carbohydrate (24 -6 =18)
 
Subtract half the grams of sugar alcohols from the total carbohydrate count  
since sugar alcohols affect blood glucose half as fast as ordinary  
carbohydrate  for example a food item containing 17 g total carbohydrates  and 8 g of 
sugar alcohols should be counted as 13 g(17-4=13)  sugar  alcohols are sweenters 
found in many reduced calorie foods such as gum mints  yogurt  They typically 
go by the names ending in "ol" such as sorbitol  maltitol  lactiol  mannitol 
and xylitol  Two sugar alcohols that  do not have the ol suffix are 
hydrogenated starh hydrolyses (HSH) and  isolalt
Guess i was counting my carbs wrong
 
Carolyn d
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