Thanks for your input RUMNCOKE. I can't disagree with what you say, as I'm not well read on contemporary thinking about carbs - I learned what little I know about nutrition, maybe twenty years ago. However I'm surprised that more recent thinking concerning complex carbohydrates, tends to consider them to be exactly the same metabolically for the body, as simple sugars.

When I was younger, I had what I'd consider to be a sugar addiction; with all the intense cravings, sugar binging, sugar high related nervous energy excesses, and sugar crash energy lows often associated to the frequent ingestion of intensely sugary foods. Since cutting drastically back on simple sugars, all that's gone now, and I can't say I've ever - subjectively -experienced either a 'sugar high' or a 'sugar crash' from eating a sandwich, a bowl of risotto, or a baked potato. Nothing like.