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\"\"<\/a>If you told me to pick one thing to eat every day, three meals a day, forever, I would probably choose a bagel with cream cheese (assuming I didn’t have to factor in diabetes).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Before diabetes, bagels were one of my staples.\u00a0 And while I don’t have a hard time avoiding carbs in general, if there are bagels in the room, the best thing for me to do is get away since bagels are about as high in carb as it gets.\u00a0 In fact, one bagel can have as many carbs as four slices of bread.\u00a0 A whole wheat Bruegger’s bagel<\/a> has 61 grams of carb.\u00a0 A Dunkin Donuts<\/a> multigrain bagel has 65 grams of carb and contains high fructose corn syrup!\u00a0 A whole grain bagel at Panera Bread<\/a> has 67 grams of carb. (Apparently that myth about all the carbs falling out through the hole in the middle just isn’t true.)<\/p>\n

If you’re going to have a sandwich, carb-wise, a bagel isn’t your best choice.\u00a0 Unless you do as my grandmother (who was always on a diet) used to do: cut the bagel in half, dig out the delicious doughy middle and just eat the shell.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you told me to pick one thing to eat every day, three meals a day, forever, I would probably choose a bagel with cream cheese (assuming I didn’t have to factor in diabetes).
\nBefore diabetes, bagels were one of my staples. And while I don’t have a hard time avoiding carbs in general, if there are bagels in the room, the best thing for me to do is get away since bagels are about as high in carb as it gets. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1449],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nBeware of Bagels<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Before diabetes, bagels were one of my staples. 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