what about suglarless gum? I have seen on this site that we should even count carbs in gum. If you don't swallow gum, like you don't with toothpaste, why would you count those carbs and not the toothpaste?

I find myself chewing more sugar free gum lately because it stops the breath monster and it is nicely sweet, too!

I try not to be AR about this WOE, but just curious, that's all.

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Suzanne (Atkins - 1/9/04)
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I chew sugarless gum as well, although not all the time. However, here is what I think about the sugar alcohols and counting the carbs...when you chew the gum, you have it in your mouth much longer that toothpaste. And as you chew it, you know the the flavor and sweetness leach continuously out of the gum until you end up throwing it away because the taste is gone. Well, that taste has left the gum and entered your saliva, which you are definitely swallowing...and swallowing the sugar alcohols along with it. So even though it's a small amount and it is all carbs from sugar alcohol, if you count sugar alcohols, you should count those carbs.

Does that make sense? I can't always get my thoughts out of my head and into writing in sense-ical way!

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That makes perfect sense. I guess I wasn't thinking scientifically about it. I figured, it's a tiny piece of sweetness, so it shouldn't count.

I'll be sure to include it from now on!

Thanks!

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Suzanne (Atkins - 1/9/04)
195/168/145

Svander,
Chew away Friend....along with brushing away!
And Pooh Bear Well put!!!
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PQ