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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hanadr" data-source="post: 136515" data-attributes="member: 8110">I've read that paper and it's logic is full of holes. One thing about it is that it is looking at 2 variables at once [starch and fibre].  It includes indigestible fibre in its carbs, which we no longer do in the UK.  I'm all for  a "high fibre" diet. It is an oldie[somewhere round 1982 and predates home BG testing] and it's just possible that if all your carb is fibre in beans and pulses, you actually only get a small amount of digestible starch.. Which is not what most people nowadays would call a higher carb diet. YES fibre is a carbohydrate [cellulose], a polymer of glucose, but its structure makes it insoluble and indigestible. Starch is also a polymer of glucose and insoluble[in strict chemical terms] However, we do have mechanisms for digesting cooked starch, where we can't digest cellulose in any form. so if your high carb diet is a high fibre one, you'll be fine. High starch needs a lot of medication to deal with.</blockquote>

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