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"Starch is healthy"

  • 04-01-2012 11:50am
    #1
    zero_hope
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    NHS says starch is good for you. http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Goodfood/Pages/starchy-foods.aspx ...and now i feel like facepalming them with a chair. As you already know starch breaks down into sugar so fast that you might as well eat the same amount of table sugar with a spoon. Is it any wonder why Brits are the fattest in Europe?


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  • #2
    ArthurG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭ArthurG


    zero_hope wrote: »
    As you already know starch breaks down into sugar so fast that you might as well eat the same amount of table sugar with a spoon.

    Does it?. I thought starch was a relatively complex carbohydrate that takes time to break down?. Happy to be corrected though.....


  • #3
    zero_hope
    Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭zero_hope


    ArthurG wrote: »
    Does it?. I thought starch was a relatively complex carbohydrate that takes time to break down?. Happy to be corrected though.....

    Plenty of breads have higher GI than table sugar... I prefer low GI food such as beef, pork & turkey.


  • #4
    Mellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,898 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    zero_hope wrote: »
    As you already know starch breaks down into sugar so fast that you might as well eat the same amount of table sugar with a spoon.

    Ant need for hyperbole?
    Its only confusing. Unless you actualy think that.

    Most athletes benefit from starches and/or sugars. Why are people always trying to group foods into good and bad camps. Most foods are neutral, and its how they are consumed that is good or bad.


  • #5
    Transform
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,394 ✭✭✭Transform


    Emmm no man thats incorrect.

    There are more than a few non-neutral foods.

    Rule number 1 of nutrition is eliminate food toxins e.g. hydrogenated veg oil, high fructose corn syurp etc

    Getting your carbs from the likes of some rice, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, veg and some fruit = all good. From the likes of wheat based carbs or junk foods = not a smart move.

    Just for the record brown bread has a higher Gi than table sugar and the added disadvantage of (this is for all wheat containing foods) -

    1. the gliadin effect
    2. The genetic modifications it has gone through in the past 50yrs
    3. Amlypoectin A
    4. A decrease in leptin sensitivity

    If you are still looking at food or 'diet' through the eyes of JUST calories in calories out then you are missing a massive piece of the puzzle.


    Most foods are defo NOT neutral and if they were there would be no such things as food groups or the term nutrition for that matter

    Keep it simple - if you are an athlete then yes consume more carbs from those listed above. If NOT? Well then you better earn your starchy or higher calorie carbs and then keep the rest of your diet filled with plenty of veg, good fats and protein.


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