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sugar..............?????????
what is sugar alcohol? i know its a sugar substitute... and is it better for you than sugar?
Sugar alcohols are like sugar in some ways, but they are not completely absorbed by the body. Because of this, the blood sugar impact of sugar alcohols is less and they provide fewer calories per gram. They also don't promote tooth decay as sugars do, so often get used in chewing gum. Because sugar alcohol is not completely absorbed, they can ferment in the intestines and cause bloating, gas, or diarrhea. People can have different reactions to different sugar alcohols. By the way, an example of sugar alcohol is sorbitol I don't think either of them are good for you. I only use raw sugar.....the least refining that has been done, the better off you are.
What is the diffenence betweenregular sugar and sugaralcohol?
My grandfather has diabetes and he try's to find stuff to eat with low sugar but if he finds something with like 1 gram of sugar it has 8 or 9 grams of sugar alcohol. Could someone please explain the difference and tell me if the sugar alcohol will make his blood sugar sky rocket the same way regular sugar does. Thanks. P.S. if anybody knows some good snacks or recipies for people with diabetes that would be great :) Also...he has Diabetes type 2.
Check out this link: "What Are Sugar Alcohols?" http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/ od/whattoeat/a/sugaralcohols.h tm Sugar alcohols are all very very different from each other, and will each have very different effects on your blood glucose levels. Once, purely in the interest of scientific research, I decided to see how my body reacts to different types of sugar alcohols. So I got some regular candy, and then some different types of "sugar-free" candy that was sweetened with different types of sugar alcohols. Over a period of several days, I tried a measured amount of each product, and then recorded my BG levels every 15 minutes for several hours, and compared each sugar alcohol to the baseline regular candy. What I found was that maltitol was almost as bad as regular sugar -- it raised my BG almost as high, and actually look a little longer than regular sugar to go back down to normal. Lactitol, on the other hand, had no visible effect on my BG -- but it gave me the most painful intestinal cramps and diarrhea I have ever had. No more lactitol for me! Xylitol and sorbitol were both pretty good -- they cause slight rises in BG, but significantly less than either maltitol or sugar. The best one I tried was erythritol: I could detect NO increase in BG at all, and had no unpleasant intestinal effects either. Anyway, based on that, if I see maltitol or lactitol in a product, I don't eat it at all. (Unfortunately, maltitol seems to be everywhere!) If I see that it has erythritol, I feel safe in discounting those carbs completely. But different sugar alcohols may (and probably will) affect your grandfather differently, so he shouldn't assume that they will affect him the same way that they affect me. The only way that he would be sure would be test himself after eating.
Whats the difference betweensugar in fruit and tablesugar?
I recently heard that sugar in fruit is the same as table sugar. I just have not been able to accept that. I mean if it is the same then why not have a cookie instead of that fruit smoothie. If the sugar in fruit is the same as table sugar then does that make fruit fattening? Please give me some input on this as I am totally confused.
Yes, sometimes fruit can be a worse choice than something else. It depends on the fruit. Some is good for you, like plums, nectarines, peaches, or bananas and apples. But others are not a good choice to eat a lot of, like pears, when you digest them they turn into sugar when they break down so they are not as healthy as other fruit, but they are better than eating a piece of cake or a cookie. Just eat them in moderation. I just recently found this out and It shocked me too! I hope this info was helpful.
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