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A few years back, I briefly covered a throwaway Yahoo! article about how \\u201ccarbs will make you lose weight\\u201d because so many readers had emailed about it. It turned out that the \\u201ccarbs\\u201d in the article were resistant starch, a type of carbohydrate that our digestive enzymes cannot break down. I\\u2019ll admit now, with regret, that I didn\\u2019t look as deeply into the matter as I might have. I didn\\u2019t dismiss resistant starch, but I did downplay its importance, characterizing it as \\u201cjust another type of prebiotic\\u201d \\u2013 important but not necessary so long as you were eating other fermentable fibers. While technically true, we\\u2019re fast learning that resistant starch may be a special type of prebiotic with a special place in the human diet.

(This Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Brock Armstrong)