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How Many Carbs?… Can You Really Count on SureCount?

By WilD on November 15, 2012

There are a heck of a lot of carb-counting “tools” out there. Today, we’re taking a look at the utility of one in particular…
My 10-year-old son Rio and I have been watching the 1960s Sci-fi show Time Tunnel on DVD. It’s about two government scientists lost in time. Every week it’s a different century. So my first impression of the new SureCount “carb tool” was that it must have fallen out of the Time…

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Can You Trust Nutrition Labels?

By AmyT on January 3, 2012

We insulin users have long suspected that the carbohydrate counts on packaged food nutrition labels are not particularly accurate. Who’s with me here?
So in the spirit of turning over a new leaf for a new year, we decided to dig into this a little and find out how nutrition labels are made. Warning: we didn’t much like what we discovered.
Did you know that just like with blood glucose result accuracy, the FDA also…

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