[neverdem]

It seems to me complex carbohydrates, trans fats, hydrogenated oils, and other such things cause heart disease.

Trans fats are usually partially hydrogenated vegetable oils.

Complex carbohydrates are usually your friends. Here's a good summary with references as recent as 2008.

Carbohydrates: Good Carbs Guide the Way

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[Ditter]

Thanks for the info, I just printed it out for my husband, he is the Type 2 diabetic and he is having trouble with his blood sugar.

[muawiyah]

The simple/complex dichotomy has long been abandoned. The article you point to says so but then it goes on into the more modern glycemic index approach to judging carbohydrate sources.

(Pssst, I hope you read your article.)

It has a something that's a chronic error ~ the difficulty with fructose ~ or fruit sugar. Ordinarily these sugars are so wrapped up in fibers they aren't a real problem. When fruits and vegetables are turned into juice, the sugar is no longer well wrapped and you might as well be eating sugar by the spoonful.