I have on many occasions, including this one, googled “refined carbohydrate” and I am not convinced that I have found anyone who means anything by it, let alone that a significant number of people mean the same thing by it.
Added: no, a lot of people do mean something: they mean “carbohydrate.”
I have on many occasions, including this one, googled “refined carbohydrate” and I am not convinced that I have found anyone who means anything by it, let alone that a significant number of people mean the same thing by it.
Added: no, a lot of people do mean something: they mean “carbohydrate.”
I just googled it. I suspect that the “refined” in “refined carbohydrates” is a stand-in for “bad, for reasons left unspecified.”
Refined means that somebody has done something to it. Like for example purified it or changed it to something sweeter that get digested faster.