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From: carter@gatech.UUCP (Carter Bullard)
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Subject: Re: FLAME:FLAME:FLAME:Nutrition Puzzle Solved
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Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 12:56:36 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 15 12:56:36 1984
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> 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
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