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Sorbee–Sugar-Free Cookies, Maybe Not

December 21, 2006 by Patricia Setzer in Label Language with No Comments

Sorbee sugar-free crunchy Chocolate Fudge Cookies. Sugar-free has to be good for someone with diabetes, right?

Chocolate Fudge Cookies

First ingredient: enriched white flour, this is refined flour with all the brown husk removed. Any food with white flour as the main ingredient breaks down immediately in your blood stream causing glucose levels to rise.

Look for whole grain foods with at least 3 grams of fiber per serving

Sugar Alcohols: Will not cause the blood glucose levels to rise as high as regular sugar but it is still wise to limit these. They will cause bloating and diarrhea if eaten in large quantities.

Partially Hydrogenated Soy and/or Cottonseed Oil: This is a Trans-fat known to lead to heart disease.  A diabetic is already at high risk for heart diesease.

One Cookie

Carbohydrates: 15 grams, which is 3 3/4 teaspoons sugar per cookie 

Calories: 110  calories and 6 grams of fat per cookie. 

 

 

  

Decaf Doesn’t Mean Caffeine-Free

December 18, 2006 by Patricia Setzer in Nutrition with No Comments

Headlines in the “Health&Nutrition Letter” published by Tufts University. University of Florida tested 10 cups of decaf coffee from various coffee shops, fast-food outlets, doughnut shops and an instant coffee brand, plus a dozen decaf drinks from Starbucks. The only decaf coffee found to contain no caffeine is the Folger’s instant crystals.

It is true that the amount of caffeine in the decaf brands is small compared to regular coffee but there is still enough to be a problem with certain medical conditions or medications. A regular cup of coffee has 170 milligrams of caffeine; the decaf coffees tested range from 8.6 to 13.9 milligrams. Dr. Goldberger, PhD stated that two cups of decaf coffee could have as much caffeine as a cola.

If your physician has advised you to stay away from caffeine make sure you are drinking   Flogers.

 

December 16, 2006 by Patricia Setzer in Weekly Tip with No Comments

FitFact from Fitness magazine: www.fitnessmagazine.com

Sauced, pureed, juiced and cooked red tomatoes pack two to eight times as much readily absorable, cancer-fighting lycopene as raw tomatoes.

Trans-fats

December 14, 2006 by Patricia Setzer in Nutrition with No Comments

Trans-fats; it has been all over the news that in New York City trans-fats are ban and I for one applaud them; but there is a hidden danger. There is the illusion that if there are no trans-fats that fried food is now healthy. It is a better choice but eating too many fried foods, no matter the fat used to fry the food, will still lead to a weight problem. Being over weight puts you at high risk for such diseases as heart and diabetes.

So please remember moderation is the operative word.   

Got Almonds

December 12, 2006 by Patricia Setzer in Uncategorized with No Comments

Maybe the question should be “Got Almonds” rather than “Got Milk”.

1 cup almonds has 418 mg. calcium, 1 cup milk has 298 calcium.

If your child does not care for milk let him/her munch on a few almonds.