Insulin Load – Beyond “Counting Carbs”
This is a guest post on insulin load by Michael Alward
Insulin Load – An Introduction
When I first adopted a low carb eating plan, I remember countless questions on low carb support groups as to how to count the carbs / net carbs of various processed food products (on this particular day, it happened to be a protein bar by Quest Nutrition).
Insulin load – calculating carbs from a Quest Nutrition protein bar.
The answers ranged from 21g of carbs (from a Type 1 Diabetic who tested his real-time insulin response), to “only 3g net carbs” (21g carbs – 17g fibre – 1g erythritol as provided by Quest). Very confusing, and not terribly helpful… (more…)
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