http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/stor...le&dist=google

I feel the same way. If it says "low carb" on the label, it's probably going to mess up my WOE.

I know it sounds strange, but I hope this article is true and that the "luster" is coming off of the low-carb fad. It's a great diet -- I'd just rather not be inundated with fake low-carb treats at the store and idiotic debates about low-carb versus low-fat. And the "cult" nature of it all disturbs me. This is a useful life-tool, not a religion, not a marketing niche.

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I was pondering this sort of thing when the explosion of new products started to hit the shelves and counters. My thoughts then, which haven't changed, were that lots of people who could benefit from it would take not one minute to learn anything about low carbing, but would scarf up a lot of these "low carb" products, drink quarts of "low carb" soda and orange juice, and conclude that a low carb lifestyle doesn't work. Too bad for them.

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I've been thinking the same thing, Maggie. I always tell DH it's a shame that many of these people will never know the benefits of this woe because they insist on eating all the packaged junk and don't stick to whole foods.

Which brings up another problem, when you say "whole foods" most people think in terms of vegetarians or people who eat weird foods and sprouts. It's so much more than that. They don't realize that we're talking about just simple, unprocessed food.

It really is a shame.

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I agree with you 100%, Maggie and Marcie.

I knew, when all the low carb products hit the shelves, that it was going to be a double-edged sword. While it's a good thing that there are many more choices, not all of them are good ones, and a lot of people won't take the time to tell the difference. As Maggie said, too bad for them.
The real tragedy is that these people will tell everyone that lc is a crock and doesn't work; and they will be believed. That means that those for whom this woe would be a life-changer will never try it; and those that do try it and do it wrong will never know the benefits they could have gotten.

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Well its a shame that these food companies don't have someone on their staff that is doing lc. or send them looking around the web to see what those of us that are really doing it right have to say....
I have not ventured very far away from eating real food (and not very much pre prepped snack - sweets- dinners -) because I spent some time reading what everyone else has to say about eating something and having to run to the bathroom, sending them into binges, etc. al.
So I have really not gone over board with them....I would like those food companies to know that just because "they think" it is low carb, it is going to be flying off the shelves. Granted most of us will try something once or twice, and then say... oh its ok, but I like the real thing....
And I agree that there are those people eating all the low carb stuff not know ing what they are doing on this woe, cause they havn't read the book.....
So I usually stick to the natural foods, occassionally will get something that is LC - (right now I have lc tortillas, bread and pakcake mix and thats about it)
rarely do I eat the sweet things, just don't like them - if I am going to have something sweet, I feel I might as well eat the real thing.

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More choices means that I can pick and choose the items that work best in my eating plan--but it can bite you in the backside too--trying too many htings and really messsing up the eating plans! I stick to whole foods too--We have been eating the same tortilla for several years--and now it has LC on the outside of the package, but it was the same product before LC was a big thing. Tam-X-Ico makes a whole wheat tortilla that is really good--and I dont't know that they did anything to it to make it LC, I never read the label before, we just ate it. I do buy the Hershey's One Carb bars now and then--but if it has any sweetener besides Erithritol in it, I can't eat it so I don't buy it! I eat Sugar free Jello, but have for years too. I eat the fat free, sugar free jello pudding-back from the low fat days I guess. I am skeptical of most LC products and don't try them. I usually like CarbWell stuff, but their cereal which I dumped out today--was awful--not too bad dry but with milk it gets soggy before you get any eaten.

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This has been my mantra since day one of the "low carb" explosion...

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1. Hershey 1-carb bars DOES contain sugar alcohols other than erythritol, although it's a bit disguised. I believe it says it has polyglycitol syrup on the nutritional info. That's the same thing as HSH, which is primarily maltitol syrup.

2. About people not reading the book because of the treats... I think the book IS part of the problem -- at least the last version of the book that was published, the one that spontaneously revived sugar alcohols. As if that wasn't a market-driven decision.

Oh, but that Dr. Atkins were still around to repair the damage that has done.

The processed food industry really can't be blamed for jumping on the sugar alcohol wagon so whole-heartedly. They're simply doing what Atkins Nutritionals Inc. is doing. It's a great money-making formula, even though it trashes the whole diet.

It disgusts me, really disgusts me.

When is one of the major news organizations going to do an expose on this? They are eager as hell to publish any pseudo-news releases that the PCRM dishes up, but a real scandal like this gets ignored. It's going to take a complaint from somebody really big in the low-carb movement, big enough to discredit Trager and his buds, and I don't see that happening yet.

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Yup. And it's not just sugar alcohols. It's stuff like Pipe-Dream (a/k/a Dreamfields) pasta, full of some kind of undisclosed magic that does something to change semolina into something that's not a "real" carbohydrate - which transubstantiation is lost on my glucometer.

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I haven't been hanging around LCE a lot lately, because my low-carb lifestyle has settled into just that: a lifestyle I take for granted, with very little fuss and bother.

However, I can't resist adding my Amen to this thread. Low-carb processed foods will spin out their ten-year marketing lifespan, "prove" that low-carbing isn't the "magic answer" to obesity, and then fade, fade away.

Meanwhile, those of us who have learned the joy of fresh vegetables, healthy proteins, fruits, nuts and good fats will keep on keeping on.

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