Then we ate them.
Posted on 10/11/2010 2:58:19 PM PDT by decimon
Natural foods, such as bananas, apples, etc, contain complex carbohydrates, which are metabolized much differently than simple sugars. Insult? That’s on you in your interpretation.
Complex carbohydrates are not sugars.
Starch isn’t sugar.
Um, when one is digging themselves into a hole, one should really stop digging. You’re making the hole deeper. Do some research on starches and complex carbs and get back to me. Pay careful attention to how the body metabolizes starches and complex carbohydrates.
Then we ate them.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
(That, and FReeping till the wee hours too often.)
Cheers!
Fruits contain both complex carbohydrates and simple sugars (which make them sweet.)
Vegetables, like beans and potatoes, contain complex carbs...they are not particularly sweet.
An apple has both complex carbs, simple sugar, plus cellulose (which makes it crunchy.)
All of the above substances contain carbon, oxygen and hydrogen, they are similar in that respect, and in chemical formula, but they are not the same thing.
The complex carbs and cellulose slow down the digestion of the apple, but the sugar (whatever version) is the first to enter the blood stream.
I stand by my original position which opposes yours, SUGAR IS SUGAR.
By the way, I did that research over 40 years ago in high school, I assumed you did too. I’m pretty sure the facts remain the same.
Well...black garments are slimming...
Actually, the facts have not remained the same, which if you’d take the time to actually update your antiquated knowledge you’d, by now, know this. Sugar is not sugar is not sugar, and there are complex sugar molecules and simple sugar molecules, and they are not metabolized equally in the digestion process. Eating a serving of applie pie versus eating an equivalent serving of an apple doesn’t result in the same metabolic breakdown of the sugars involved. The sugars that are involved in soda is not the same sugars that are involved with natural orange juice. My information is recent, not 40 years old.
*In one study, mice exposed to light at night – but that had food availability restricted to normal eating times – gained no more weight than did mice in a normal light-dark cycle.*
Restricted diet = no weight gain...what a concept. Simple, take in more calories than you burn = weight gain, no matter what time of day or night you eat.
Gee, you got me on that one.
I'll name some of the common simple sugars, sucrose, fructose, lactose, dextrose, which are found in foods we normally eat.
But I just can't seem to find these "complex sugars" occurring in foods, that you refer to. I guess I'll have to rely on you to identify some of them by name.
Thank you so much.
High fructose corn syrup, sucrose, fructose...all sugars, all equally fattening. OJ is just as fattening as soda.
My information is recent
You haven't given any information, just rhetoric.
I like the way you think.
>>I just can't seem to find these "complex sugars" occurring in foods, that you refer to. I guess I'll have to rely on you to identify some of them by name.<<
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Still looking I see. No luck huh?
Maybe if you google "glycemic index foods" you'll get the information you're looking for.
Enjoy!
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