Quention on Diabetes
What would the effect of the Hibernation Diet be on those with Diabetes, whether type 1 or type 2?
Wouldn't the honey taken at night increase the blood sugar?
Writerinresidence
posted by Hibernation Diet Blogger @ 9:28 AM
Monday, October 23, 2006
Wouldn't the honey taken at night increase the blood sugar?
Writerinresidence
1 Comments:
Hello Writerinresidence,
Many people, including many health professionals equate honey with refined sucrose and high fructose corn syrup, which activate hyperinsulinism, fat synthesis, obesity, diabetes type 2, and cardiovascular disease.
This is profoundly mistaken.
However diabetics should begin with a small dose (teaspoon) and assess the result before increasing this.
See Below:
Journal of Medicinal Food
Natural Honey Lowers Plasma Glucose, C-Reactive Protein, Homocysteine, and Blood Lipids in Healthy, Diabetic, and Hyperlipidemic Subjects: Comparison with Dextrose and Sucrose
Apr 2004, Vol. 7, No. 1: 100-107
Noori S. Al-Waili
Why would honey lower blood glucose?
This is easy to answer. Fructose is taken up by the liver (via fruktokinase) and converted to glucose and liver glycogen. Fructose also activates the glucose enzyme (glucokinase - The Fructose Paradox), thus alowing for glucose uptake. If the fructose and the glucose from honey are stored in the liver they would not raise blood glucose, would they? They will be released only when required, when blood glucose is falling and the brain at risk. The prejudice against honey is widespread but changing. More and more the benefits are being recognised.
The benefits of honey are many, but if it can be demonstrated that honey may be shown to optimise recovery biology, that recovery biology is fat burning biology, and it can, we are on the verge of a new era in the long history of this amazing and natural product, produced by bees from the sub-artic to the tropics.
Mike
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