Robert Lustig says he'd scrap all food subsidies and split carbohydrates into three categories: refined carbs, fiber, and sugar. He argues they affect your body differently and shouldn't be grouped together.
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If I could do one thing at the usda, if they gave me like carte blanche for one day, what I would do at Congress, I would get rid of the food subsidies. That would be my one thing to do there, get rid of all food subsidies at usda. If they gave me carte blanche, I would do one thing. Right now there are three macronutrient groups. Fat, protein, carbohydrate. I would expand that to five macronutrient groups. And here are the five Fat, protein, refined carbohydrate, fiber, and sugar, slash alcohol. Because refined carbohydrate affects you one way, fiber affects you a different way, and sugar slash alcohol affects you a third way.
So would you put complex carbs where.
Refined carbohydrate, that'd be refined.
I don't think there's any complex carbohydrates. It's all carbohydrate.
Well, I mean, look, at some point, you know, it becomes the law of diminishing returns.