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Understsanding CarbohydratesPart One: New Carbohydrate BasicsPart Two: Oligosaccharides and PrebioticsPart Three: Starch - Good and Bad Understanding CarbohydratesPart Four: Resistant StarchPart Five: FiberPart Six: 7 Facts to Remember about Carbs New posts to the Low Carb Diets forums:Understanding Carbohydrates - More Complex Than You ThinkAbout.com Health's Disease and Condition content is reviewed by our Medical Review Board
IntroductionYou may think you know all you need to know about carbohydrates. There are the simple ones, which are digested quickly, and the complex ones, which are digested more slowly. Carbs give us energy, and sometimes raise our blood sugar too much. End of story. Right? Wrong! It turns out that there is much more to carbs than weve known until very recently. In fact, one of the hottest areas of nutritional research has to do with the hows and wheres of carbohydrate digestion. For example, did you know:
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