Interesting!
Very interesting. What about a diabetic though? Why not use honey. Tupelo honey, for example, is a honey that a diabetic may consume. I wonder if these researchers used or considered honey?
But Mary Poppins knew this 45 years ago-
`A Spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
The medicine go down
The medicine go down
Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
In a most delightful way`
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One of the treatments we use in the jungle (since there is a paucity of medical professionals) to treat jungle ulcers on the skin is to pack the ulcer with table sugar. It is amazing how quickly it works.
Oh ! Gosh ! It appears mom’s advice makes sense after all !!! >PS
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Explains why I like a full package of cookies with my antibiotics :-).
Info for the next time you have to take anti-biotics.
For some bacteria, xylitol is quite effective.
Xylitol is a five-carbon sugar alcohol, made from birch bark.
Quite sweet to the taste. Does not raise insulin levels. The body naturally manufactures it every day.
Seems some bacteria get confused and think it’s fructose, so they absorb it, But they don’t have the enzymes needed to break it down.
So the bacteria croak.
They die of what amounts to constipation.
Works for ants, too.