The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
if I eat a moderate amount of honey, even a pretty good amount of honey by most people's standards, 50 to 75 grams of carbohydrates of honey in the morning, my blood sugar stays under 130. It comes back very quickly. It doesn't affect the blood sugars the rest of the day.
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i was eating probably at least 100 grams of carbohydrates from honey a day for probably two to three months and i did a number of carbohydrate experiments over the last few months that people can hear about on my social media and and yeah i mean you could see on my blood sugars on a cgm that in the morning it would spike a little bit maybe to 120.
when you eat a meal of fruit and honey you will spike your glucose but the area under that glucose curve is going to be really low it's a very quick response because man insulin sensitivity is super fascinating to me
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