"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>I just got one for my birthday. Put out by the American Heart Association.
>Says it is for Diabetes and Heart Healthy.
>
> I won't repost the whole thing but here is a sample breakfast menu:
>
> 1 serving Apricot and Apple Granola
> 1 Whole Grain English Muffin with teaspoon of tub margarine
> 1 cup Orange juice
>
> Say what? I can't see how a meal like that would be good for anyone, much
> less a diabetic!
>
> The sample menus are all based on over 2,000 calories per day. I can't
> even eat half of that. And certainly not that many carbs.
>
> The recipes do give carb counts and there are actually a few that are low
> carb or fairly low carb but some seem to me to have unnecessary carbs.
> Like some kind of fish with orange salsa. Now I don't eat low carb but I
> sure am not going to waste the carbs that I do eat on something like an
> orange! Yeah, I know some people like oranges. I'm not one of them.
>
> There are actually a few recipes in there that I would eat. I say would
> because I can't. 61 grams of carb per serving? Count me out.
>
> The person who gifted me with this is not a diabetic. I just feel bad
> about it. This isn't the first such book I've been given. I'm sure that
> the people who buy these books think they are doing a good thing. But I
> feel they are being taken advantage of.

Sounds about par for the course. I find those books to be totally worthless.

Cheri