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Skimmed milk

Though it's probably against the actual ethos of low carb high fat living...:D

You can always have a good drink of it - and test to see how your body responds to it.

But in general, just remember that, proportionally, less fat = more carbs - which is not what we're essentially aiming for.

Robbity
 
I'm a coffee drinker, got into the routine of buying skimmed as always told this is better for you!

How about coffeemate?
 
Shortly after diagnosis, as an assumed T2, and reading in a book (Dr Briffa's The Diet Solution) that saturated fat was good for you (I subsequently did a lot of research about that), I switched to whole milk. For 4 1/2 years I kept good HbA1c figures. Last February my insulin production fell off a cliff, and I went on insulin. Testing a lot more once again, I discovered my blood sugar rising in response to the milk in my coffee. So I now use Lactofree Whole milk, and the sugar-raising lactose is no problem (since absent).

Skimmed milk being better for you is part of the growingly outdated advice to go low-fat, and most low-fat items replace fat with sugar.

Many here use cream in coffee. Personally I use whole milk by preference, semi-skimmed at a pinch, and would drink black before using coffeemate.
I'm too polite to say what I think about skimmed milk ; )

Geoff
 
Hi
Here are some carb values, all taken from Sainsbury's site
Quite enlightening, really ;)

Carb Values
Skimmed Milk = 4.7g/100 ml Carb (of which 4.7g total sugars)
Semi Milk = 4.6g/100 ( ditto )
Whole Milk = 4.0g/100ml ( ditto )

CoffeeMate = 57.3g/100ml (of which 9.4g total sugars)
CoffeeMate Lite = 84.2g/100ml (ditto - 14.8g ditto)

Fresh Cream
Single = 2.1g/100ml (of which 2.1g total sugars)
Double = 2.6g/100ml ( 2.6g)
Extra Thick = 1.5g/100g (1.5g)
Whipping = 2.5g (2.5g)
Organic Double = 1.6g/100g (1.6g)

Elmlea
Single = 4.5g (sugars - 4.5)
Single Light = 4.4g (4.4)
Double = 3.9g (3.8)
Double Light =

Anchor Squirty Cream = 7.3/100ml (7.3)
 
Pauntiep said:
I'm a coffee drinker, got into the routine of buying skimmed as always told this is better for you!

How about coffeemate?
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Depends on your belief in 'science'
I worked for a company that had free vended coffee.
And regular cholesterol checks for all employees.
Many of us smashed way through the ceiling on cholesterol after we drank free coffee continuously all day, as the white coffee was a coffee mate product.
So, we worked out it was the free vend of coffee mate that did us. (And it was continuous, literally)
We dumped it for black coffee, then management decided to charge us, and oddly enough, cholesterol dropped.

Some on here will never accept that could even be true, but either way, avoid coffee mate.
 
douglas99 said:
Depends on your belief in 'science'
I worked for a company that had free vended coffee.
And regular cholesterol checks for all employees.
Many of us smashed way through the ceiling on cholesterol after we drank free coffee continuously all day, as the white coffee was a coffee mate product.
So, we worked out it was the free vend of coffee mate that did us. (And it was continuous, literally)
We dumped it for black coffee, then management decided to charge us, and oddly enough, cholesterol dropped.

Some on here will never accept that could even be true, but either way, avoid coffee mate.
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So you mean you drank coffee with coffee mate with loads of carbs and your cholesterol went up?
I would happily believe that..
 
Pauntiep said:
I'm a coffee drinker, got into the routine of buying skimmed as always told this is better for you!

How about coffeemate?
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I'm afraid you will have to get used to finding out a lot of the "things we have been told" aren't actually correct.
Fat has been demonised, carbs have been favoured incorrectly and diabetics have been misled the world over.
 
Each to their own on saturated fats.

As for Coffeemate, it is carb heavy. 57% in fact. Cream is low carb and tastes good. Milk including skimmed is better than Coffeemate by a long stretch.
 
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