How can a diet be called low carb if you include high carb food?? I'm not saying people shouldn't eat carby foods if they can manage them - just that it's potentially confusing and misleading to call that a low carb diet - much the same as people saying they eat no carbs when some of them quite obviously do include them in their diet. It's certainly a misnomer and I'd prefer to call it a reduced carbs diet. Otherwise it's send ing mixed and confusing messages and many new diabetics are befuddled enough anyway about what they can or can't eat, which is counter productive - that's all.
Robbity
as i understand it, carb calculation means the total amount of carbs you eat during the day, regardless of what foods those carbs come from.
Are you confusing it with low or high GI foods?
If someone has 50g of carbs as potato, or as any other carb containing food or drink, it is still 50g of carbs. Isnt it?
what do you mean by a high carb food? There may be more carbs, weight for weight, in some foods than other foods, but 50g of carbs is still 50g, regardless of how you choose to make up that amount.
I dont understand how some people can say they eat no carb foods if you are right that they actually do eat some. I thought that no-carbers do exactly that - they eat no carbs.
I do not agree that it is confusing and befuddling or counter productive to clarify these terms and understand exactly what is meant.
