Sweeteners: What the heck should I eat?
*Fresh, pureed fruit or fruit juice
*Molasses
*Organic palm sugar
*Date sugar
*Coconut sugar
*Monk fruit
*Organic maple syrup
*Honey (use the Ethical Consumer Guide)
*Stevia, sparingly (only brands certified by the Rainforest Alliance)
*Erythritol, also sparingly, although new data suggest it causes weight-gain.
Here Dr. Hyman suggests those sugars which are not totally refined but have a matrix rich in vitamins and minerals. A little like the SRF diet, Yogananda suggesting honey, molasses, raw sugar.
I do not agree totally with Dr. Hyman though. All the sugars listed, except monk fruit and Stevia and Erythritol which are sweeteners, not absorbed by the body, do spike blood glucose and may give rise to a prediabetic or diabetic condition. Now, that's individual. A couple of years ago I noticed that my fasting blood sugar was drifting upward into prediabetic conditions. I soon eliminated all sugars and all fruit. That avoided spikes in blood sugar but the fasting values kept high, until a little ago when apparently they dropped down.
Bottom line, dietary suggestions have a general part but must also be individualized. All the listed 'good' sugars are detrimental if a person exhibits glucose intolerance. They have the same effect as white, unhealthy sugar. They may contribute to the occurrence of type 2 diabetes, a metabolic dysfunction which elevates the odds of mortality.
If you are glucose tolerant, that's your good luck and you can indulge in healthy sweet food. In my case I've been indulging too much in healthy sugars and this probably gave rise to the recent glucose intolerance.
Mccoy I’m not sure 🤔 what you mean here when you say “ I avoided all sugars but the fasting values kept high”. Can you explain? What fasting values? Do you mean you can run 🏃♀️ fast with sugar ingestion? ( I think that would be helpful for my jogging routine ) Also, wonder if ‘spiking glucose levels’ is bad for everyone? Do you have preexisting health challenges that would make bringing up sugar levels deleterious for ‘YOU’? Or perhaps 🤔 you mean that sweets will over take the best of us healthy specimens. Those who are slowly deteriorating as sweet tooth’s, attempting to still jog a half an hour a day. We are finding our pace slowing to a cain supported walk without any energy, because all sorts of sweets have been eliminated from our diets?
Also, at one time you brought up protein as very bad for health and increases aging. You gave us many articles from dieticians that explicitly stated the ill affects and consequences of aging quickly with protein; if people continue absorbing protein, when their bodies were past the ‘growing stages’. I noticed your position has noticeably softened since those days. Contrasting those views with the prevailing views at the time, was somewhat like adding gasoline to a flame that was being extinguished. The 🐄 cattle ranches in southern United States are raking in money with their endless encouragement to eat steak and potatoes 🥔 to get the old dead weight out of social security expenditures. It has taken Americans the length of our countries history to get beyond that. But now they have a new tactic, that attempts to cover up the extreme harm meat does to our bodies and spirit. They made fancy neon flashing signs on display at McDonalds,with someone holding a Big Mac taking a bite out of it as the blood seemingly drips from their mouths from the killings they are excitingly devouring. As though horror films can now be seen in short clips by the masses and enjoyed before supporting their sickening practices.
I’m sure the Roman Empire would have relished the idea of having such water dripping horror films to promote killings in the old sports arenas where people watched other people being malled by tigers in the day. Animals, similarly salivate before ripping up their prey. How are we humans , with the ability to be divine any different then ravenous wolves? Let’s look at it for what it is; cruelty to other living beings. The only difference I see with Dr. Hymen is he makes cosmetic adjustments with the meat he prepares by adding flowery vegetables and lets others kill for him on the off days. I suppose you could say that is an improvement over eating at the death factory; McDonalds; where death 💀 is new and improved with salivation and greasy fingers. No forcing vegetarianism here mccoy just exposing what is only too obvious to a little spiritual sensitivity and follows the principles of Yama, or non injury to all creatures.
