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MimiOfTheLusciousLawn
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Does the premium version of MFP allow you to track net carbs?
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Just from doing a search of the boards, it sounds like (as of a month ago) net carbs wasn't an option for Premium, you'd still have to do the subtraction. Some people suggested arranging your nutrition columns so that Fiber was right next to Carbs, making it quicker/easier to subtract.
I wish they would add net carbs though!0 -
I think because so many different countries use MFP that net carbs would reduce accuracy.
For example, here in Australia our fibre is not included in the gross carb total. It's a separate category altogether. So if MFP started subtracting it out for me automatically, many of my macros would be off.0 -
Being diabetic, I can't use net carbs. I have to use total to calculate my insulin. Though, for my husband it would be really good for him.0
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I think because so many different countries use MFP that net carbs would reduce accuracy.
For example, here in Australia our fibre is not included in the gross carb total. It's a separate category altogether. So if MFP started subtracting it out for me automatically, many of my macros would be off.
Or, if the US did carbs like the rest of the world it wouldn't be an issue.
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I haven't seen it as a premium option. I really wish the US would do carbs like everyone else, and use the same measurements too.0
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sweetteadrinker2 wrote: »I haven't seen it as a premium option. I really wish the US would do carbs like everyone else, and use the same measurements too.
They tried that. It failed.
We had already learned imperial math and measurements and were applying it every day. But in the 1970s, when I was in the fourth grade, they instituted a re-learning experiment in the U.S. public schools. They attempted to make us unlearn imperial and teach us metric. We couldn't grasp it. Everyone in the class failed the tests.
After that, I don't think they bothered with it anymore.
This saddens me. I'm fluent in both because I'm a science major. I think we could do both if we tried.0 -
sweetteadrinker2 wrote: »I haven't seen it as a premium option. I really wish the US would do carbs like everyone else, and use the same measurements too.
They tried that. It failed.
We had already learned imperial math and measurements and were applying it every day. But in the 1970s, when I was in the fourth grade, they instituted a re-learning experiment in the U.S. public schools. They attempted to make us unlearn imperial and teach us metric. We couldn't grasp it. Everyone in the class failed the tests.
After that, I don't think they bothered with it anymore.
That's odd in the late 50s they taught us metric. It's based on 10s, simple. Only in the US would we come up with the idea of 12 inches, break inches up into 8ths or some multiplier of it, but if you want to measure it closer throw that system away and divide inches by 10s, oh we're almost back to the metric idea.
Our money back to 10s. Percentages 10s. Decimals 10s. An abacus 10s.
Metric's so simple if anyone needs help... use your fingers.
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The US imperial is probably a hangover from colonial days. Although you do have your own imperial measurements as well. In the UK we use a weird mixture of imperial and metric. Slowly moving over to metric because of te EU influence.0
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I was part of the fourth grade experiment with the metric system. Terribly confusing at the time. Makes sense now. Leave it to the U.S. to test with a focus group that wouldn't get it. Maybe if they tried twelfth graders instead. I love the U.S., but they got things bassackwards many years ago!0
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I was part of the fourth grade experiment with the metric system. Terribly confusing at the time. Makes sense now. Leave it to the U.S. to test with a focus group that wouldn't get it. Maybe if they tried twelfth graders instead. I love the U.S., but they got things bassackwards many years ago!
How can we expect our countries to agree on something so complex as weights & measures,
when they can't even agree on which side of the road to drive on.
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HA! Exactly!0
