> Joan McPhee <[log in to unmask]>

>  Metabolically eating honey and sugar has the same effect.  Nutritionally,
>  one tablespoon:
Isn't that sugar company propaganda?  Eating processed sugar is as good as
eating honey, maple syrup, or other natural sweetener? DC Jarvis did some
studies on honey and effect of blood sugar and found that compared to other
carbs nothing entered the blood stream faster than honey except glucose.  But
the level of blood sugar did not rise that much which he attributed to honey
having two types of sugar in it, the first which was absorbed quickly is
dextrose, the second which keeps the blood sugar constant because of it's
slow absorption is levulose.

Of course, my DC Jarvis book "Folk Medicine, A New England almanac of natural
health care from a noted Vermont country doctor"  may have been superseded by
newer knowledge or sugar company propaganda. It has a 1958 copyright.   I
used to think we were smarter than we were 100 years ago.  I'm not so sure
anymore.  I used to think those in control of our food cared about us.  But,
they invented white flour with no nutritional value and it wasn't even
enriched until President Franklin Roosevelt passed a law requiring it.  Did
the processors of flour ever tell the consumers that they bleached all the
nutrition out of it?  I doubt it.  And from time to time I still hear similar
facts.  On the Discover channel they were talking about honey and it's
antibacterial effect.  DC Jarvis talked of the germs it could kill and modern
studies agree..  I think they were talking about a surgeon who used it as a
disinfectant in wounds when he closed.  Some colleagues felt it necessary to
test his theory and they found honey killed all kinds of germs.  So, if it
does so externally, there's the possibility it does so internally.

Furthermore, for those hypothyroid people who also have hypoglycemia, perhaps
honey is an acceptable sweetener.

Skipper

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