Question: How do you know if a low-carb bread is really low carb?
Answer: You made it yourself.
Here’s another company – Carb Krunchers – lying through their teeth and selling bread full of carbs calling it low carb. There are many companies like them.
A lot of people miss bread on a low-carb diet. There are lots of special low-carb breads sold in stores, but be careful! They usually suffer from one of two common problems:
A good example of the first problem was Julian Bakery’s low-carb bread. As I wrote earlier it turned out that people’s blood sugar increased just as much as by eating real bread. And when the “low-carb” bread was sent for analysis it turned out to contain 17 times more carbs (!) than specified.
Julian Bakery’s bread used to be an example of the first problem: high-carb bread fraudulently marketed as low-carb.
After being exposed they apparently decided to change the recipe into a truly lower-carb version. Instead of using “Sprouted Whole Grains” i.e. wheat flour as the main ingredient they are now using “Non-GMO Wheat Protein Isolate” i.e. gluten (!) as the number one ingredient. Not very Paleo. The result can be seen in the video above.
Have you found a good option for real low-carb bread? Share it in the comments below.
Have you missed my video interviews with experts on low-carb diets? There are more coming up! During the Low-Carb Cruise I brought two large suitcases, mostly filled with video equipment. Three cameras, three lights and six tripods as well as microphones.
The result is six interviews ready to edit. The interviewees are Dr Jay Wortman, Jonathan Bailor, Jimmy Moore, Dr Dwight Lundell, Bjarte Bakke and myself.
What interview do you want to see first? Tell me in the comments and it could soon be ready.
I had a great time on the Low-Carb Cruise last week. One of the main reasons was getting to spend some time with my Norwegian friend Bjarte Bakke (pictured above with Ruben, our excellent cab driver and guide in Honduras).
Bjarte Bakke is a management consultant, philosopher and an impressive guy. Apart from travelling to 50 countries before me (I’m stuck at 49) he’s interested in finding the most important things in life and helping others to achieve them.
Do you know what the most important things in life are? If not, check out Bakke’s blog Rethinking Truth:
If you want get updates on how to improve your life you can also like Bakke’s brand new Facebook page.
Here’s a report from the Low-Carb Cruise from the always funny Tom “Fat Head” Naughton:
Now I’m back in Sweden again, with good access to the internet, after three weeks of travelling in America. Thus there’ll be more regular updates again.
Here’s a quick example of how bad low-fat products can be for your health. It’s nothing new, but even worse than what I’ve seen back home.
Here’s yogurt served at breakfast on the cruise last week. Notice that all of them except the plain one have the words “low fat” on the top. It sounds healthy – but it’s not. Have a look:
The low-fat yogurt contains almost no fat. Instead it’s filled with sugar and modified starch, rapidly absorbed bad carbs. And not a little: 22 grams per 113 gram serving.
About 70 percent of the energy in the yogurt is pure sugar. And it’s very noticable: it tastes like eating candy for breakfast.
The reality is that the manufacturers have removed 2 grams of fat from the container of yogurt. Then they’ve added about 15 grams of sugar, seven times more, and they sell it implying that it’s healthy for you.
Is anyone surprised that there are three times more obese Americans today, compared to when the fear of fat took hold back in the 1980′s?
This is pretty impressive. I just got an email from Cord in the pictures above, he wanted to share his story: Continue Reading →
Now we’re about to set sail on this year’s Low-Carb Cruise in the Carribbean. Ports include Belize, Isla Roatan (Honduras) and Cozumel. There’s plenty of cool speakers lined up, like Robb Wolf, Dr Jay Wortman and Jonathan Bailor. Should be fun!
Hopefully I’ll get the internet to work on the ship, otherwise you’ll hear from me in a week.
The obesity conference in San Diego is over. Highlights included plenty of interesting lectures, dinners with Jimmy Moore (thinner than ever after a year of measuring his ketone levels) and Dr Jeffry Gerber, drinks and NuSI-talk with Gary Taubes (exciting news coming up) and discussions with the insanely impressive Dr Peter Attia (who recently recieved a standing ovation at TEDMED – video to be posted). And one more thing… surfing in the Pacific Ocean with ASBP president-elect Dr Eric Westman.
In less than one week it’s time for this year’s low-carb cruise in the Carribean, so it was hardly worth flying home to Sweden before that. To spend the time in between I checked into a small hotel on Pacific Beach, San Diego, where I’m writing this (by the arrow above). Life’s not too bad.
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