Honey As a Sweetener
If you are serious about weight reduction and even overall health then I would strongly advise against using honey as a sugar substitute.
The problem is that your body will have a significant insulin response to it, which is never good for the body, though many have accustomed themselves to it by eating a diet filled with refined sugary foods.
On a diet focused on naturally occurring foods, as would be consumed in an environment away from all the modern inventions that masquerade as food in our society, there would almost never be any large insulin spikes from sugars or products like honey.
A fact that would make it very easy to maintain a healthy bodyweight, and also a fact that would make disorders such as Type II diabetes very much uncommon.
You see we are just not made to ingest sugars on their own, since in nature they always occur in the presence of fiber.
Fruit can be very sweet (due to the fructose content), but the fiber content serves to not only slow down the way our body responds to it (keeping insulin at relatively steady levels) but also to stop us from eating too much of it at once.
Fiber is insoluble and tends to be very filling and as such it is very hard to over eat fruits as the fiber naturally fills you up and prevents you from getting to a point where your insulin levels rise to far.
Now if you think about it, honey is very much a processed substance with a high content of fructose, glucose, maltose and sucrose- all of it of it without the presence of any fiber whatsoever.
So by using honey as a sweetener, there will inevitably be a high amount of insulin secretion as a response to all those sugars, which will then translate into hypoglycemia, and in the long run increase your risk of pancreatic disorders- and of course that high insulin response will also serve to promote the storage of body fat.
It is important to get away from the marketing hype of 'natural equals wholesome' as it is very much incorrect, the poison cyanide is natural, and produced by plants and fungi, cocaine comes from 'natural' sources as does heroin.
The bottom line is that you should think long and hard about what the term really means, besides, under normal circumstances, it is hardly likely that our ancestors, struggling to survive, would have risked serious injury to obtain honey from bee hives.
It simply would not happen, and is another product of what I refer to as our over-civilization.
Now some would argue that there are valuable nutrients in honey, but the amounts are small, and are not worth the risks associated with the ingestion of large doses of sugars.
The problem is that your body will have a significant insulin response to it, which is never good for the body, though many have accustomed themselves to it by eating a diet filled with refined sugary foods.
On a diet focused on naturally occurring foods, as would be consumed in an environment away from all the modern inventions that masquerade as food in our society, there would almost never be any large insulin spikes from sugars or products like honey.
A fact that would make it very easy to maintain a healthy bodyweight, and also a fact that would make disorders such as Type II diabetes very much uncommon.
You see we are just not made to ingest sugars on their own, since in nature they always occur in the presence of fiber.
Fruit can be very sweet (due to the fructose content), but the fiber content serves to not only slow down the way our body responds to it (keeping insulin at relatively steady levels) but also to stop us from eating too much of it at once.
Fiber is insoluble and tends to be very filling and as such it is very hard to over eat fruits as the fiber naturally fills you up and prevents you from getting to a point where your insulin levels rise to far.
Now if you think about it, honey is very much a processed substance with a high content of fructose, glucose, maltose and sucrose- all of it of it without the presence of any fiber whatsoever.
So by using honey as a sweetener, there will inevitably be a high amount of insulin secretion as a response to all those sugars, which will then translate into hypoglycemia, and in the long run increase your risk of pancreatic disorders- and of course that high insulin response will also serve to promote the storage of body fat.
It is important to get away from the marketing hype of 'natural equals wholesome' as it is very much incorrect, the poison cyanide is natural, and produced by plants and fungi, cocaine comes from 'natural' sources as does heroin.
The bottom line is that you should think long and hard about what the term really means, besides, under normal circumstances, it is hardly likely that our ancestors, struggling to survive, would have risked serious injury to obtain honey from bee hives.
It simply would not happen, and is another product of what I refer to as our over-civilization.
Now some would argue that there are valuable nutrients in honey, but the amounts are small, and are not worth the risks associated with the ingestion of large doses of sugars.
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