[caseinpoint]

I am no nutritionist and will defer to a pro. I did think there was a difference between simple and complex carbs as far as digestion speed. Simple carbs digested quickly for fast energy and complex carbs digested slower but at a more steady rate, not that they are qualitatively different. I do think if a person has to eat every 15 minutes, slow-burning carbs might help. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.

[Nepeta]

I do think if a person has to eat every 15 minutes, slow-burning carbs might help. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.

This woman seems to have the metabolism of a human hummingbird, and in that case, she needs energy right now, not later, much as hummingbirds consume nectar or sugar water to keep up their strength while hunting insects.

Starch is the complex carbohydrate humans consume. We cannot do anything with cellulose, not the way cattle can.

"Junk food" isn't junk at all if you are active enough. Besides, some of the weird way the label is applied makes no logical sense--why is ice cream junk while yogurt virtuous? Why is pizza junk but spaghetti a meal? Start tearing food apart down to its components (I've done this for a living) and the label of "junk food" is rather freely applied. Cotton candy is junky--but some people think brown sugar is not, but they're both sucrose.