Drinking Calories Debated

The debate on whether the calories that people with or without diabetes drink help to make us feel full isn't over. But the evidence that they don't is mounting.

1. Drinking Calories Debated
   verdungal
   Friday, May 09, 2008 at 08:14 AM

   The glucomannan which you spoon it onto my vegetables, if this in capsule form.?

   Shirataki noodles also contain glucomann, if you added some  to your vegetables, would it not amount to the same thing?

   
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   re: Drinking Calories Debated
   David Mendosa
   Friday, May 09, 2008 at 06:31 PM

   Dear Joan,

    

   I referred your comment to my favorite Certified Diabetes Educator, who is the one who uses glucomannan. This is her reply:

    

   I have been using glucomannan in powder form, incorporating a level teaspoon into most of my meals. I have been making my own healthy salad dressing by mixing 4 tablespoons of Bragg apple cider vinegar with 2 tbsp of flax high lignan oil and a generous dash of cholula hot sauce. This thickens up quite quickly, so i either pour it on within a minute or so, or if it is too thick for that, then i just spoon it onto whatever greens I'm about to eat and mix it in. If I need to add in some protein for that meal, i'll add a raw egg or 2 into the "dressing."

   
   

   I believe the noodles are a much greater diluted form of the powder. The powder is EXTREMELY hydrophyllic. The directions are to mix 1 level teaspoon of the powder into about 1 cup of a liquid part of your meal. You know i eat really WIERD things - instead of that "chiatole" recipe I created last fall, i now make a "cold porridge" out of glucomannan, whey protein powder and flax oil. the glucomannan really thickens the whey mix up quickly and VERY effectively. I stir in some cinnamon, a dash of vanilla and a dash of salt. i love it! Of course, i generally have a large bowl of greens/green cabbage with some flax oil and Bragg apple cider vinegar dressing as well to round out the meal.

   
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2. Anyone who's tried to "diet" can tell you that
   tmana
   Friday, May 09, 2008 at 08:49 AM

   drinking tons and tons of water (or diet soda, or black/unsweetened coffee, or black/unsweetened tea, for that matter) does not fill the "lack of content" void -- we just keep trying to tell us that this is the case.

   
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