Lee365, I've been lowcarbing a while myself. I'm sincerely puzzled and would very much like to know WHERE "Dr. Atkins has said", and I'm QUOTING you here, that one can fully deduct sugar alcohol grams from the carb count of any food products one ingests.

I'd really appreciate a page number and edition reference, I do have every edition of Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution and would be glad to look it up and stand corrected if he literally says as much in his books, rather than infer it on the company labels.

Nothwithstanding whatever Dr. Atkins might or might not have said, however, the misuse of the labelling is definitely illegal (and every low carb bar manufacturer has been doing this). Have a good browse at http://www.atkinscenter.com and check out the statement about changes re labelling as "requested" by the FDA.

As for reading your previous post, I'm in the somewhat enviable position of having read ALL the previous posts, in this conversational thread AND in the many discussions on hidden carbs on this Forum and in several others... just so you know. I'm not about to repeat myself over and over again about how sugar alcohols don't affect everyone the same way. I did, however, give you the benefit of the doubt and assumed you had read this thread, at least, in its entirety.

Yes, not everyone is affected by sugar alcohols. Yes, everyone should have the opportunity, from a base of KNOWLEDGE and not fiddled labels with "hidden" carbs, to find out if they are affected by sugar alchols. End of story.