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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mpe" data-source="post: 406343" data-attributes="member: 60109">Actually the non "sugary" ones may well be the worst. Because of a quirk of the chemistry involved disaccharides equate to 106% sugar and polysaccharides equate to 111% sugar.If you are going to eat a high carbohydrate diet, from the point of view of blood glucose control, sucrose or lactose @53% glucose are a much better option than amylose or amylopectin @111% glucose. Most possible high carbohydrate diets would also be high in glucose diets. Even those which didn't have a specific class (of 1/3) for foods high in glucose polysaccharides.The biggest irony is that humans don't need to eat any glucose, fructose or galactose. Any which the body cannot use in fairly short order get converted (saturated) fats anyway.Many people also find it trivially easy to overeat on a high carbohydrate diet, but much harder on any diet where carbohydrates do not dominate.</blockquote>

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