SC - OT: Boston

[margali]

Hmmm, I have never heard this sort of thing on the lowcarb list, and I agreee
that we tend to break down complex food molecules when we digest. Maybe somebody
misconstrued the need to add legumes to grains to make a complete protein thing
to the diabetid diet info that you cant consider corn, peas and beans as veggies
as they are starches?
margali


>
> > "I have heard that to eat corn and potatos in the
> > same meal is a bad idea, since it creates a starch very difficult to
> > digest properly - myth?"
>
> Yeth.
>
> I'm not a chemist or anything, but it occurs to me that you don't create
> a starch by mixing two others in your stomach. AFAIK, the human body
> doesn't create a complex carbohydrate out of two substances it normally
> breaks down into sugars, with the possible exception of glycogen, which
> is for energy storage.
>
> This sounds to me like some kind of fringey post-Atkins nutritional theory.
>
> Adamantius
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