Questions about the Atkins bake mix and glucose intolerance

[Vicky_Linn]

Hello everyone! :wave

I´m thinking about buying the Atkins bake mix, but since it´s quite expensive I was wondering if the bread you can make of it is any good or if it has a really strange taste(like the shakes do)?

I was up for a big surprise today when I went to the library and found a copy of the ANDR(which isn´t sold here, I had to order it over the internet and it hasn´t arrived yet), I snapped it right away and have read quite a lot of it, I have a question though. In the third chapter titled "Is this you? -Three types who need a ketogenic diet", you anwer yes or no to different descriptions of eating habits and I found out that I´m a group B responder. This means that I am glucose intolerant, since English isn´t my native language I don´t understand what this means. Could someone please explain this to me? Does it mean that I´m about to get diabetes :yikes ?

By the way, I just want to say that I´m so glad I´ve found this bulletin board, there are so many helpful people here :hug ! Hugs to all of you!

[hulagrl1120]

Hi Vicky,

Actually the Atkins Bake mix is not allowed during Induction and from what I've read from people who have tried it...it's not very good

[Vicky_Linn]

Hi Vicky,

Actually the Atkins Bake mix is not allowed during Induction and from what I've read from people who have tried it...it's not very good

Ahh...great :sadblinky , then the Swedish homepage for Atkins lies, it says you can have it during the induction. Well, it´s just one of those things, if it sounds to good to be true, then it probably is. Thanks for telling me.

[Lena May]

Oooh! Another Swedish Atkineer! Glad to have you on the boards, first off. I'm Bekka and I am from Sweden, well, I was born there, if that counts. Anyway, stay away from any frankenfoods during induction. Many agencies who do make them say they are safe for induction, but they're not, they are only saying this to get more money. Money makes the wold go around. Anyway, the glucose intolerant thing, I'm not pretty sure if that means you have diabetes or not, since that whole subject area confuses me. But it means that you can't tolerate sugar that much. Hope that helps a bit! :hug

<3 Bekka

[2big4mysize]

Welcome


The information on the Atkins.com website will differ slightly from your DANDR as they have decided and Atkins Nutritonal spokesperson was quoted in the NY times Dec 2004 that they will cater the program to the needs of the people in this fast paced day and age instead of going with the whole natural foods concept Dr Atkins original program so be warned.

what your symptoms means is that you need to be eating low carb because when your glucose spikes you as it does after high carb meals your body doesn;t handkle it well is all. Eating Atkins will get you healthy and keep you healthy.


Happy low carbing

[not2late]

Just adding to what everyone has already said. Atkins Bake mix was reformulated last year. The old formula contained soy protein isolate with is sort of okay for Induction and a bunch of other chemicals. The new bake mix contains two ingredients: wheat gluten (which might not be good for folks with wheat sensitivities) and corn starch. If I recall correctly, the corn starch is the regular corn starch, not the lower glycemic corn starch used in other Atkins products. Oh yeah, it is still tastes as awful as the original Bake Mix.

If you choose to experiment with the Bake Mix, please do so when you are on OWL or during extended Induction (if you wish to do that). The first 14 days are much too important to ruin because you had a previously unknown food intolerance to wheat products or the other ingredients found in these low carb convenience foods.