On 02/11/2013 01:14 PM, W. Baker wrote:

> How many grams of those carbs are fiber? Many of us find that using high
> fiber foods(that the US counts as carbs as a catch all but British folk
> don't but list them separately) acrtually reduces the effective nomer of
> carb grams in the food, so if something had 5 grams of carb listed in the
> US and uder that lists 4 grams carb, you are for most purposes gettign
> only about 2 grams of carbsin the portion. I count only the effective ,
> or starchy or sugary, non-fiber carbs in my diet and it works well fot me.
> Many food value listing books do give these number so yocan figure how
> many "turn into sugar" carbs a food actually has.
>
> Wendy
>

Hi Wendy,

My GP said that balancing carbs against fiber is an
Akins thing. He said I don't get too. Have you measured
your BG after a carb/fiber combo?

-T