Question:
What is the difference between sugar alcohol and sugar in foods?
What is the difference between sugar alcohol and sugar in foods? Are they both equally bad for you? — Gene F. (posted on January 12, 2004)
January 11, 2004
Sugar alcohols don't cause a glycemic response - they don't change your
blood sugar levels - supposedly...I still have some of them make me dump
though.
— eaamc
January 12, 2004
I had the first major dumping experience 12/26/03--I'm post op
12/23/02 down 129 lbs--I finished a tough workout, came home and at (3)
pieces of s/f Russell Stover candies. Got up was dizzy, sweaty, cold,
sick, yeck!!!! Sugar alchols have a terrible effect on me, I havent tried
regular sugar and dont intend too--I was a sugar craver before sugery!
— debmi
January 12, 2004
They are metabolized very differnlt within your system and do not add to
the glycemic index of the food that they are put in with, hence, reduced
calories because they 'burn off' so much quicker. They do have the added
'slight laxitive effect' to people who are not used to them, though. Even
though the foods are lower in sugar, they are not lower in calories and
fats, so any of the sugar alcohols should be used with consideration for
the overall intake of food.
— track
January 12, 2004
if you ask the people in the low-carb dieting newsgroup,
alt.support.diet.low-carb(not WLS people) they will tell you the difference
is MARKETING. I know pre-op when on a low carb diet eating bars or other
foods with sugar alcohols they would knock me out of ketosis. as if all
the carbs in them counted and not just the 'net carbs' I am leary of
them, and if you do eat to much of it, they do have a laxative effect.
— Patricia T.
January 13, 2004
I havent eaten enough sugar alcohols at a time to make me dump... but they
sure do give me stinky gas ;-) hehe... sorry to be kinda gross... lol
— Katrina K.
January 13, 2004
I don't really understand the difference either but supposedly you can
subtract sugar alcohols and fiber from the total carbs and that is how they
get the net carbs....LOL
All greek to me!
— Saxbyd
January 13, 2004
If you take note of the calorie content of the foods with sugar alcohols,
they have as many if not more calories as the sugar products. And then
there is the "social embarrassment" issue. They also fire up my
hunger just like real sugar. I guess I don't fit the net carb mold. whether
or not it influences your bloodsugar a calorie is a calorie is a calorie.
If I am filled up with SF candy I will not ingest the protein and vegies
that make me healthy and strong. I have made the decision to take most of
this "junk food" out of my life.
— **willow**
January 13, 2004
— **willow**
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