"Todd" > wrote in message
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> On 02/17/2013 01:58 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>> Sure! This is probably the best link:
>>
>> http://www.mendosa.com/gi.htm
>
> Love Mendosa stuff. This is a great article. Thank you!
>
> I think we are talking at cross purpose. The GI is only meant
> to tell you how something reacts on a healthy person's empty
> stomach. It is a starting reference.

Not really. For me not at all.
>
> Now, my opinion is that it is immoral to tell someone on a
> label that a product has zero sugars and zero carbohydrates
> when the products contains polysaccharide make up of glucose
> molecules with a GI of 110. This is why I call maltodextrin
> "Liar's glucose".

I don't car how many sugars is in a product. I don't go by sugars. And you
couldn't pay me to eat sugar alcohol. I don't think it's immmoral. I just
won't eat it.
>
> I have no intention to tell people to use Liar's Glucose
> as substitute for their calibrated, pharmaceutical grade
> glucose pills meant for diabetics.

I have never eaten a glucose tablet in my life and I probably wouldn't. I
use other things for treating hypos.