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Starch. Sugar consumption may have decreased, but starch converts to sugar in our stomach acid, and with the Amylase in our saliva. Yup. The largest part of th
by TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y ago
Starch.
Sugar consumption may have decreased, but starch converts to sugar in our stomach acid, and with the Amylase in our saliva.
Yup. The largest part of the food pyramid: Grains.
Noodles, potatoes, porridge, bread...
It's all sugar.
- notshift 4y agoStarch converts to glucose, which is processed VERY differently from table sugar, sucrose, or the type of sugar found in fruit, fructose. So, sugar is not all sugar. I believe Lustig has argued that the latter two are much worse than the former. I agree overeating of carbs is not good, but is the reason why America is so fat because we just magically eat more bread, noodles, and potatoes than comparable countries? Probably not.
- pengaru 4y agoYou're conflating glucose and fructose. Fructose is the Lustig-argued toxic half of sugar that gets processed ~identically to ethanol by the liver.
- stjohnswarts 4y agoWhite bread literally has basically the same affect on blood sugar as an equal amount of sugar (by weight) as does processed (not whole wheat) pasta. It may be a bit delayed vs sugar's almost immediate absorption but the end result is quite on the same order.