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South beach diet questions

7707mutt Posts: 7,686 Joined: 2002/06/18	2005/01/05, 07:15 AM Ok by our doctors orders my wife and I am to start the South Beach Diet next week. Great for me as it is closer to a true bodybuilding meal plan than any other diet. Bad for her as it only allows you to eat most things she cannot( mostly it is a mental thing for her, she has a aversion to certain textures and flavors). Howerever she has seen some low carb items that the doc approved for her to try. One thing is pasta that is low carb....my question is about a brand called dreamfields. in particular the elbows. It says that the digestible carbs per serving is 5g...not bad at all....howerver on the nutrional listings it says it has 42g per serving......we are so confused as to how or what they mean.....if it helps it says it is made with a premium durum wheat semolina but that their unique pasta recipe means fewer carbs get asborbed into your system much like whole grains (word for wrod from the package). So what the hell does all this mean? -------------- If you can itch your nose after arm day...do another set! 7707mutt@freetrainers.com
	2005/01/05, 01:13 PM I'm not totally sure, but the explanation I've always gotten on stuff like this is "impact/non-impact carbs." In other words, even though undigestible carbs like fiber, sorbitol, maltitol, and glycerol count toward the total carb count of the food, they do not have much effect on blood sugar levels (non-impact carbs). Carbs that do impact blood sugar levels are the "impact carbs." As far as that pasta, though it has 42g of total carbs per serving, 37 grams are probably the non-impact carbs mentioned above. I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but that's my limited understanding of the way these foods are marketed.