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On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:59:46 GMT, Alan S
<loralgtweightandcarbs@gmail.com> wrote:
>Eat any good high-percentage (70% or more) chocolate in
>moderation.
>
>Cheaper, tastier and no sugar alcohols.
G'day G'day Folks,
Well said Alan. If there is a short version that says it all it
would have be similar to what you've posted.
OK, now for the longer version.
I cringed when I saw the header. Surely this wasn't another
chocolate sweetened with fructose. Fructose does provide a lower
blood glucose level which is at first sight attractive. In today's
spin doctor world people are often persuaded by "snap logic". They
are too busy to consider all the relevant aspects.
Unfortunately fructose promotes the production of fatty acids which
don't make it far in the body. Actually they don't make it past the
liver. Put simply for many T2s its a matter of fructose in, belly
moves out.
Well the good news was that the spammer was promoting a sugar alcohol
based chocolate. Maybe we should be grateful for small mercies.
Fortunately though folks here aren't a bunch of dummies. If one
chooses chocolate with a high percentage of cocoa solids then using
ordinary sugar is not a problem. The good news is that high
percentage (70% or more) have little room for the other nasties often
found in compounded chocolate. Trans fats for instance give a nice
crunchy texture or mouth feel. So the less room there is for them,
the less there is of them. The logic may be a bit simplistic but
seems hard to refute.
Chocolate is a very important antioxidant. We get clobbered these
days with all sorts of advertising for different antioxidants without
realising that only some of them do us much good. Not only must
antioxidants be "powerful" they must get to the right places. Some are
good in watery situations eg blood. Some do much better in fats.
Chocolate is one them that has been researched and found to reduce the
incidence of coronary heart disease. That to me is number one where
T2s are concerned.
There is a lot more that can be said about chocolate. Feel free to ask
questions. Together we'll dig up the answers.
Best wishes,
--
Quentin Grady ^ ^ /
New Zealand, >#,#< [
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"... and the blind dog was leading."
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/quentin