Actually what you cite is good science, but you seem to misunderstand it. As I've said, the GI has been found to be faulty. That's because when carbs are mixed with other foods, it changes the speed at which complex carbs are converted to sugars and released into the blood stream. Pure sugars cause an insulin spike particularly when eaten alone as a snack. Mixing them with fat, which is typical in candy bars, doesn't help this. When consumed in any quantity, sugars hit the blood stream too fast for the body to gauge how much insulin to release to bring the level of blood sugar in the body to proper levels. So it does the only thing it can do. It releases too much insulin. That has the effect of lowering the body's blood sugar level too much. The excess sugars are converted to glycogen and stored in the liver and the muscles. But the excess insulin, which persists for hours, does not allow the body to convert it to glucose to make up for the lack of blood sugar. The result is that the person feels hungry and often eats more, often the same high sugar and fat type snack, to make up for this loss. If that person eats items with fat in them, the fat goes directly to the fat cells and the person gains weight. So odviously one should attempt to avoid sugars in their diet. Or at least mix them with lots of complex carbohydrates to buffer this effect. The more fiber these complex carbs have, the better. The current Federal Food Guidelines reflect this advice. E
