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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Diabetes / April 2008Scary Dietary Recommendations
I was looking at the nutritional information on a pack of crap snackfood. The standard breakdown includes carbs, of which sugars, and fibre as a separate entity, and brakes down fats into saturates, mono and polyunsaturates, so nothing out of the ordinary there. The ingredients list correctly lists everything in descending order of concentration. The problem I have is with the "Guideline Daily Amounts" which is one of several dumb-down-the-information type schemes used by different food(?) manufacturers and suppliers. For men calories 2500 fat 95g saturates 30g fibre 24g salt 6g and pro rata for women and children NOTHING on carbs at all but SUGAR 120g are they serious??? If it was carbs 120g I'd find it quite acceptable, but 120g sugar PLUS other carbs Over a quarter pound of SUGAR a day <speechless> > I was looking at the nutritional information on a pack of crap > snackfood. [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > <speechless> Wow! I don't think I've ever seen anything that high. Of course, I never looked before I caught diabetes, and then I never looked at anything that might be high. John >I was looking at the nutritional information on a pack of crap >snackfood. [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > >Over a quarter pound of SUGAR a day That IS a lot. Just as scary is the salt at 6g. I think the last thing I remember reading about it was that you shouldn't have more than 2400 mg per day (2.4 g). Looking at the label on a package of "Peak Freans LifeStyle Cranberry Citrus Oat Crunch" cookies, I see: Salt 100mg. 4%, equating to 2500 mg per day Carbs 21g. 7%, equating to 300 g per day. So it looks like they got the salt OK, but 300g carbs is a bit scary.  SignatureLarry, T2, Saskatchewan, Canada. DX 24 Aug 07. D&E Metformin 2000mg, Ramipril, Simvastatin Dx A1c 8.1 : Latest 5.1 (4 Mar 08) >>I was looking at the nutritional information on a pack of crap >>snackfood. [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] >I remember reading about it was that you shouldn't have more than 2400 >mg per day (2.4 g). Damn near a hundredweight of sugar a year Yes I suspect the Food Industry may have had something to do with these Recommended Levels seeing as they shove sugar starch and salt into most everything >Looking at the label on a package of "Peak Freans LifeStyle Cranberry >Citrus Oat Crunch" cookies, I see: [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >So it looks like they got the salt OK, but 300g carbs is a bit scary. Indeed. I tend not to eat much processed food so I've never really paid attention to the small print before, only the actual contents I weakened and had a pizza yesterday - well actually I cooked half the pizza and ate two thirds of the half - mother had the other third - with lashings of purple sprouting broccoli and a glass of Chianti, followed by one of my walks, that was about 30g carbs and I think I got away with it despite it being wheat (6 (108) at 1 hour, 5.8 (105) at 2 hours) The pizza box has NO Guideline Daily Amounts for either sugar or carbs, only fat, sat fat and salt - which again is 6g/day > I was looking at the nutritional information on a pack of crap > snackfood. [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > <speechless> Looks to me like a restatement of the old saw that the brain needs 120 grams of glucose a day. Unfortunately they translate "glucose" into "sugar" and "needs" into "must consume" neatly avoiding mention of the fact that over half of the protein we eat is converted into glucose, so one doesn't *need* to *consume* any sugar at all, because you can get all required glucose from protein. Priscilla, T2 > > I was looking at the nutritional information on a pack of crap > > snackfood. [quoted text clipped - 43 lines] > > Priscilla, T2 I'm sorry. I meant milligrams, not grams. Are you sure they didn't say milligrams (mg) not grams? Priscilla > > > I was looking at the nutritional information on a pack of crap > > > snackfood. [quoted text clipped - 48 lines] > > Priscilla No, I meant grams. I think I need my dinner. :-( Priscilla >> > Looks to me like a restatement of the old saw that the brain needs 120 >> > grams of glucose a day. Unfortunately they translate "glucose" into [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > >No, I meant grams. I think I need my dinner. :-( You haven't had 120g sugar today have you? <runs away> |
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