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<G> Thanks for the laugh.

Glad you like the site.

I looked at your site. I try to avoid the terms "simple" and "complex" carbs because the meaning has changed over the years. Starch used to be considered a complex carb because it's a large molecule, but it's digested so quickly you might as well be eating glucose, and it has a higher GI than table sugar (because it's all glucose), and now many people call it a simple carb. They define complex carbs as the lower-GI ones, starch complexed with protein or surrounded by a difficult-to-digest cell wall.

Researchers use rodents because (1) they're much cheaper than animals that are closer to humans, (2) there is more and more opposition to using other primates for research these days, (3) smaller animals have shorter life cycles, so you can see effects faster, and (4) mice and rats have been highly inbred so each strain consists essentially of identical siblings so the genetics aren't what is causing a difference when you see one.

However, as you note, they're not exactly like humans, and hence any results in rodents are considered preliminary until they can be confirmed in humans.

Great answer, thank you.