> >2. pasta is bad (everyone "knows" that "complex carbohydrates" are
> >"healthy")
>
> It seems to me that the common 'logic' is that anything that's not pure
> sugar is a 'complex' carb.  What's so complex about white flour?  This
> 'complex' carb malarky has always boggled my mind.  Hell, some people I know
>

Complex carbohydrate has to do with the number of sugar molecules hooked
together and nothing more than that. They can be good, bad or indifferent.
There can be a few or many sugars joined.