"Cheri" > wrote in message
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> "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.
Yes.