sugar Archives | Diet vs Disease Personalized Health, On Demand. Wed, 28 Aug 2024 15:09:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.dietvsdisease.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cropped-diet-vs.-disease-symbol-full-color-rgb-1000px-w-300ppi-favicon-32x32.png sugar Archives | Diet vs Disease 32 32 Can Diabetics Eat Honey? The Research Will Surprise You https://www.dietvsdisease.org/can-diabetics-eat-honey/ https://www.dietvsdisease.org/can-diabetics-eat-honey/#comments Sat, 19 Mar 2016 05:52:56 +0000 https://www.dietvsdisease.org/?p=673 Honey is an all-natural food nicknamed Nature’s Sweetener. Humans have likely been eating it for tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years. And not only for its sweet flavour, but for its medicinal properties too. Sounds like something we should be eating more of right? Yet when you break it right down, honey is essentially sugar. We know that a high sugar diet is bad for you, which is why many consider honey unhealthy. So is honey good for us or not? Perhaps more importantly… Can diabetics eat honey? Honey vs Sugar: How does it compare? Honey is made in the bee-hive from flower nectar. The process is a collective effort that requires honey bees to consume, digest and regurgitate nectar repeatedly. For this reason the nutritional properties of honey depend on the nectar available around the hive. A typical batch of honey compared with sugar looks like this[Discover More...]

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]]> https://www.dietvsdisease.org/can-diabetics-eat-honey/feed/ 37 6 Risky Foods To Avoid With Gout (No. 5 Was Unexpected) https://www.dietvsdisease.org/foods-to-avoid-with-gout/ https://www.dietvsdisease.org/foods-to-avoid-with-gout/#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2015 09:15:55 +0000 https://www.dietvsdisease.org/?p=587 [Last Updated, 7th March 2023] A gout attack is not pleasant. The pain is so bad that sufferers are often hospitalised for days, if not weeks. More importantly, gout is typically indicative of other more serious health issues behind the scenes… Like a window into the state of an individual’s metabolic health. Unfortunately the occurrence, or recurrence of gout is only getting worse. Rates are on the rise from China to the UK, and it is now the most common inflammatory arthritis in the US (1, 2). Information online about gout treatment can be particularly confusing, and even contradictory at times. This is because we don’t yet completely understand the mechanism behind gout… But we do have a lot of big clues. The following is a list of the top 6 foods to avoid with gout, explaining what we know[Discover More...]

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]]> https://www.dietvsdisease.org/foods-to-avoid-with-gout/feed/ 45 What Can’t You Eat When Pregnant? The Top 6 Foods To Avoid (No. 4 Is Highly Controversial) https://www.dietvsdisease.org/what-cant-you-eat-when-pregnant-6-foods-to-avoid/ https://www.dietvsdisease.org/what-cant-you-eat-when-pregnant-6-foods-to-avoid/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2015 04:22:09 +0000 https://www.dietvsdisease.org/?p=471 What you eat during pregnancy is crucial. The embryo is completely dependent on the availability and supply of nutrients provided by the mother. The quality of these nutrients – helpful or harmful – is determined entirely by her nutrient stores and eating patterns. So it’s troubling that a review of 25 studies found most women do not receive adequate nutrition education during pregnancy… (1) With that in mind, the frequent question “What can’t you eat when pregnant?” becomes all the more important. So here are the top 6 foods to avoid when pregnant, supported by current research. INFOGRAPHIC: See the infographic of this article here. 1. Avoid unsolicited dietary supplements when pregnant Unless otherwise specified by your doctor or dietitian, dietary supplements may not be suitable during pregnancy. Or to be more accurate, they are not worth the risk. Several types of dietary[Discover More...]

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