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it is good to eat honey or fruit fro your sugar, not table sugar, as table sugar(white death) gets in your blood very quick causing insulin spike, which is bad and bad only, unless you completely deprived of energy like in long distance race.

this stupid sensationalist articles designed to glorify consumption of junk food are just pathetic and should not be on top of hacker news...

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Honey has a very high glycemic index as well. Almost the same as table sugar.

no, honey is fructose and glucose separate.

sugar is sucrose - glucose and fructose in a very high energy bond.

apart that honey has a lot of other stuff(bee saliva, pollen) which make the SPEED of absorbtion wayyyyyyyyyyyy different

>table sugar(white death)

Why post garbage like that?

>gets in your blood very quick causing insulin spike

Just like honey and fruit and candy do.

>which is bad and bad only

There is no evidence to support that claim. The demonization of "insulin spikes" is for selling a fad diet. It is not based on science.

sucrose is not same as fructose and glucose.

fruit and honey have a lot of other stuff which slows THE SPEED OF ABSORPTION into blood and does not spike insulin in a wild way like sugar.

try eating spoon of sugar and compare the feel with spoon of honey. it is obvious.

Fruit has small amounts of fiber that slightly slow absorption. Honey does not. It has the exact same effect as any other sugar. Rather than "feeling" it, try measuring it.

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