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Can I Eat Sugar Alcohols On My Low Carb Diet?

“Polyols” or sugar alcohols are a number of differentcarbohydrates that are neither sugars nor alcohols–andare commonly used as artificial sweeteners in a rangeof products, from ice cream to chewing gum. While these tasty sweeteners appear to be the perfectsolution for both low-carb dieters and low-carbfood producers, recent studies of sugar alcoholshave painted a somewhat different […]


Atkins Diet Plan — Are Low Carb Diets Doomed?

According to Veronica Atkins, the widow of Dr. Robert Atkins, the cause of his death was from falling on a slippery sidewalk with subsequent irreversible brain damage (from a CNN interview, February, 2004). Many critics of the Atkins Diet Plan claim the fall was due to a heart attack. This has not been verified to […]