Well, I have to say...
They are the ones who make them, but they have an interest in selling them too. If you were to ask wheat farmers if refined flour was good for everyone they would say yes. If you asked the makers of aspertame if the product was okay for consumer use, they would say sure.
This is why there needs to be independent testing, and until there is, you must go by the word of mouth, and experience of others. Sure, maybe some people still eat their bars and shakes, perhaps they are not resistant to weight loss. Maybe they would have lost a lot more faster if they hadn't had any fake food.
There are many people of experience here that know from experience that those bars do not work for low carbing. A few people have had just a bite of a bar when they are craving. But how many of us can do that? Not many I bet.
In my experience, eating two low carb bars in a weekend blew my weight loss for at least a week. I tried again the following weekend with just one, and again no loss. At this point, I was well into the plan and had been losing 2 pounds a week steadily. I gave the bars up. I didn't think they tasted that good and they were expensive.
I don't believe that "not absorbed into the bloodstream" or "not usable carbs" stuff. It acts just like a real sugar for most of us.
Also, in my old version of DANDR, in his final words, Atkins says,
" 1. Be food aware--remember that fresh meat, fish, fowl, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and occasional fruits and starches are the foods nature designed you to eat. That packaged stuff in the supermarket puts money in somebody's pocket. But try not to put it in your stomach. This is the only body you've got. Notice how good it feels now. Notice how much better it looks. Keep it that way.
2. Be wary--endlessly wary--of sugar and corn syrup, and white flour and corn starch. Look at the labels of whatever packaged foods you find yourself obliged to buy and avoid like the plague the packages that contain sugar, corn syrup, honey, maltose, dextrose, fructose, sorbitol, and all the other variations and inventions of the modern sugar-refining industry.
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6. Remember that addictions can only be managed through abstinence."
These are words to live by.
Elihnig
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