Honey is harmful to health even more than sugar

Honey is not a healthy product, how it is presented for the past many centuries. In fact He even worse sugar, according to nutritionists in the UK.

The benefits of honey

Traditional refined sugar (sucrose) is processed by the body to insulin, which is produced pancreas. Honey 55% consists of fructose or fruit sugar, which is processed by the liver. Despite this difference, our bodies all still responsive to honey in the same way as in normal sugar. So talk about benefits of honey   nor are baseless.

Blood sugar after honey consumption increases, and this causes the pancreas to produce insulin, which leads to the fact that the body begins to accumulate fat and gaining weight. When used in excessive amounts of foods that contain fructose, a person runs the risk of becoming a victim of obesity heart disease and liver. The probability of this is exactly the same as in the use of conventional products sugar.

Other studies have shown that Fructose takes minerals needed by the body. Furthermore, honey rich in calories, and there are more of them than regular sugar. So in a teaspoon of honey, which can be bought in the store, contains 22 calories, and a teaspoon of sugar - 16. Many people who changing the sugar in the honey, add it to yogurt and herbal teas, sincerely believing that consume less fat. In fact, they eat more of them. So what benefits of honey ?

Unlike natural unprocessed honey obtained directly from the apiary, the one that sold in product contains minimal amounts of the beneficial vitamins and minerals such as niacin, riboflavin, thiamine and vitamin B6. In the store of honey to 2%. Known that honey is bad for your teeth, because it often leads to the destruction of tooth in children enamel and leads to dental caries.

Harmful honey and skin - glucose, fructose and carbohydrates which are contained in the product, lead to damage to the collagen. The added sugar is not at all any nutritional benefits. The UK is considered safe if the amount of such sugars in the daily diet of the person is not more than 10% (50 grams or 12, 5 teaspoons a day for women, 70 grams and 17, 5 teaspoons spoons per day for men). However, experts of the World organization Health recommends reducing the amount of added sugars to 6 teaspoons a day. (READ MORE)

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