Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gatech.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gatech!carter From: carter@gatech.UUCP (Carter Bullard) Newsgroups: net.veg,net.med Subject: Re: FLAME:FLAME:FLAME:Nutrition Puzzle Solved Message-ID: <10464@gatech.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 12:56:36 EDT Article-I.D.: gatech.10464 Posted: Mon Oct 15 12:56:36 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Oct-84 06:25:28 EDT References: <70@azure.UUCP> <10440@gatech.UUCP> <1205@utah-gr.UUCP> Organization: School of ICS, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Lines: 31 > In article <10440@gatech.UUCP> carter@gatech.UUCP (Carter Bullard) writes: > > "Nutrition Puzzle Solved" was and still is the biggest bag of garbage > > I have ever read. > > > recently - that is the myth that complex carbohydrates digest more > slowly than simple ones (bet you didn't know that was a myth, did > you?). Turns out it's much more complicated than that, and I think > "they" don't have a good correlation with anything at this point. (This > myth was information that was considered "obvious", so nobody tested it > until recently.) > > So my advice to you is don't flame if you don't have all the facts. > > =Spencer Its not that they digest more slowly, its that the blood glucose level changes after ingestion are not what some people would expect. Along with the fact that glucose level changes are altered by the concurrent ingestion of other carbohydrate stuffs indicates that there is competitive absorption of specific carbohydrate complexations. Ask your wife how much amylase is in human saliva and then ask her to calculate how many moles of say dextrose can be "digested" before it gets to the stomach. Anyway, I am a PhD student in Pharmacology on leave from Temple University School of Medicine. I may not be a nutritionist but at least I feel that I am qualified. -- Carter Bullard ICS, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 30332 CSNet:Carter @ Gatech ARPA:Carter.Gatech @ CSNet-relay.arpa uucp:...!{akgua,allegra,amd,ihnp4,hplabs,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!carter