Re: Tricky pineapple

On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:25:08 -0500, nobody <annonymous@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Found a website "www.sparkpeople.com" that had a resource reference
guide regarding carbs that said 45%-65% of carbs as carbs are necessary
for both energy & the brain cells.

Sparkpeople is a GREAT exercise resource - but a pretty crap nutrition
one. There are indeed some tissues in the body that use glucose -
around 120g per day. However, your liver is perfectly capable of
making 200+g per day, so you'd be in no danger from too few carbs even
if you tried to eat none at all. Nutritionally, of course, it would be
disastrous - so you need to eat plenty of green, leafy veg plus enough
protein, to cover the bases.

Nicky.
T2 dx 05/04 + underactive thyroid
D&E, 100ug thyroxine
Last A1c 5.4% BMI 25
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