It's really expensive, about $30 for a 12 ounce slab. But I'll get it once or twice a year.
Posted on 11/20/2022 8:34:30 PM PST by ConservativeMind
Researchers have found that honey improves key measures of cardiometabolic health, including blood sugar and cholesterol levels—especially if the honey is raw and from a single floral source.
The researchers conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical trials on honey, and found that it lowered fasting blood glucose, total and LDL or "bad" cholesterol, triglycerides; it also increased HDL or "good" cholesterol.
"These results are surprising, because honey is about 80 percent sugar," said Tauseef Khan. "But honey is also a complex composition of common and rare sugars, proteins, organic acids and other bioactive compounds."
Previous research has shown that honey can improve cardiometabolic health, especially in in vitro and animal studies.
"The word among public health and nutrition experts has long been that 'a sugar is a sugar,'" said John Sievenpiper. "These results show that's not the case, and should give pause to the designation of honey as a free or added sugar in dietary guidelines."
Sievenpiper and Khan emphasized that the context of the findings was critical: clinical trials in which participants followed healthy dietary patterns, with added sugars accounting for 10 percent or less of daily caloric intake.
The median daily dose of honey in the trials was 40 grams, or about two tablespoons. The median length of trial was eight weeks. Raw honey drove many of the beneficial effects in the studies, as did honey from monofloral sources such as Robinia (also marketed as acacia honey)—a honey from False Acacia or Black Locust Trees—and clover, which is common in North America.
Khan said that while processed honey clearly loses many of its health effects after pasteurization—typically 65 degrees Celsius for at least 10 minutes—the effect of a hot drink on raw honey depends on several factors, and likely would not destroy all its beneficial properties.
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Very interesting and helpful info.
Thanks for posting.
How can an article about the health benefits of honey not mention manuka honey from New Zealand?
“I eat my peas with honey,
I’ve done it all my life,
It makes the peas taste funny,
But it keeps them on the knife” - Anon
Raw honey from a single floral source = Unobtainium.
But still... honey is still ‘sugar’ and, in theory, shouldn’t have affected metabolic profiles at all instead of the usual sugar way...
Maybe honey nut cheerios was onto something...
I eat a teaspoon or two of raw honey just about every day, but two tablespoons on raw honey each day would be too much.
Also, even when honey is labeled as single floral source, it probably is not.
As for honey, it is not going to help your allergies, but is is far better than sugar.
Most nationally marketed marketed honey is going to be cut with more than 20% imported honey and often times HFCS.
Buy raw local honey or don’t bother.
“Raw honey from a single floral source = Unobtainium.”
Exactly.
Presumaby also the most natural major concentration of sugar that was available and that has been consumed by humans for a long period of time.
So, an Elvis sandwich everyday is one way to improve health?
Raw honey from a single floral source = Unobtainium.
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Yup
You can buy raw honey. or anyhow its labeled raw.
i used to buy the stuff. but then worried about all the sugar and quit.
Well Bipolar Bob, I just ain’t a gonna to pour honey on you. I don’t care how sweet, sticky, or hot you get from having honey poured upon me. Just ain’t a gonna happen. And your stinky feet? Just hain’t a gonna happen. Best to you.
Good read.
Paid for by the honey lobby, friends of Fauci, and people that brought you the diabetes causing food-pyramid. I believe them about as far as I can throw them.
Good to know. There are a few apiarist in the area, I need to get some local honey. Doubtful it’s from a single source.
Well, ok, I’ve been eating bee vomit. But I like it.
It's really expensive, about $30 for a 12 ounce slab. But I'll get it once or twice a year.
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