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Oh dear, they don't seem to have produced a UK edition. They and the Daily Mail, haven't realised that carb lists in the UK and Europe are already net and fibre is listed separately anyway. Most of us also don't use US measuring cups or weigh in ozs as used in the recipes either.
New Atkins thinks in terms of 'net carbs', which you calculate by taking total carbs (in grams) minus fibre (in grams).
The idea is that because fibre is indigestible and so doesn't impact your blood sugar levels you can subtract the number of grams of dietary fibre from the total number of carbohydrate grams in any food, to find its true net carb value.
Cooked green beans, for example, may contain 4.9g of carbohydrate per half cup, but 2g of that is fibre, so the net carbohydrate value is 2.9g. Lettuce is 1.4g of carbohydrate per cup, but more than half of that (1g) is fibre.