Xav, can you comment on the potential differences in complex versus simple carbohydrates on satiety?
DR. PI-SUYNER: I can’t comment on it, because there’s no real data that I know of, good data, on the difference. Generally, you know, the thought has gone that simple carbohydrates are more rapidly absorbed. However, some of the simple carbohydrates that humans eat are not sucrose or glucose. A lot of them, they eat quite a lot of fructose, too, which doesn’t raise the glucose very much, and certainly almost doesn’t raise the insulin at all. So, there have been specific studies comparing fructose and glucose and sucrose, showing that glucose gives you the highest insulin, sucrose the next and fructose the least, as you would expect. Lactose is pretty close to glucose. I don’t know of any, I don’t remember recalling studies with lactose, itself. That’s not a big player. If you go head to head with complex carbohydrates, taking complex carbohydrates as a starch, starch is a series of glucose molecules and has almost identical glycemic index to sugar if it’s cooked. So, the glucose molecu
Xav, can you comment on the potential differences in complex versus simple carbohydrates on satiety?