Sport Honey
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white sugar is refined natural honey is not.
i think too much emphsis is put on gi foods.
so in my book i believe that natural honey is 10x better for you than refined white sugar which after all is just empty calories
How much ( table ) sugar do you currently consume a day ?
' Cutting ' is about tracking calories - perhaps opting for an artificial sweetener ( strictly from the perspective of cutting calories ) might be something worth considering.
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and it goes great with natural peanut butter in a whole wheat pita bread wth hard boiled egg whites!!! Personal favorite mini-meal.
PROVIDED!! you are working out. if you just sit aroun and eat this stuff you will blow up lik a blow fish- i'd reckon anyhow!
i have 3 different seasons of honey, ever since this place gave me the accountabiltiy to ditch refined sugar.
FF
The more it's refined, the less nutrients.
hahaaha
what is wrong with organic idealism? At some point i began to realize I, being the style i am, had to pick a side of the fence. i found that natural nutures purity, and purity strength.
along with that add complete tolerance for anothers ideals and you start to get some harmony.
the riff only comes when I go beyond "sharing" my thoughts with you and try to "change" your thoughts to mine.
OR VICE VERSA OF COURSE...
hheheehe
peace out
FF
first off honey is not made up of sugar(sugar is a refined product you buy in a supermarket in half lb bags it looks like salt buts a little sweeter)they are 2 different things chalk and cheesee if you like.
by the way if you read the full post then you would know that flyinfree made that quote and not chillen but if i was on a sugar high i wouldnt notice either:yelrotflmao:
I was gonna post a thread similar to this one, as I LOVE honey, ill just use this thread instead...
Every morning I have a full table spoon of honey with my breakfast (Cerial). is that okay or is it too much everyday?
just to let you know, i have an active job so i dont really sit around in a office or something.
Every morning I have a full table spoon of honey with my breakfast (Cerial). is that okay or is it too much everyday?
just to let you know, i have an active job so i dont really sit around in a office or something.
What are you talking about? You do know that 83g of that and 17g of water, and it would look just like honey?
Honey is a mix of mainly fructose and glucose. Table sugar is sucrose, a chemical bond between fructose and glucose. When the stomach breaks down sucrose, it turns into fructose and glucose first, the exact components of honey (and the need for that process is why sugar has a lower GI than honey).
That is the chemical reality of it. Process table sugar with acid and heat and you get the components for honey. Just because something is natural as opposed to refined doesn't change anything, those concepts don't do anything chemically. They refer to the process, not the end product.
The original poster was asking how to substitute sugar to help on a cut, replacing it with something based on how natural it is is just completely irrelevant.
The only redeeming point honey might have in this context is, does it add more sweetness per kcal? And obviously artificial sweeteners beat it by 3 orders of magnitude.
Nothing's wrong with idealism. But as you said, sharing is one thing. But I was replying to someone who wasn't just sharing, but trying to push the idea that natural was intrinsically better than refined, on a subject where it just isn't the case. There's a big difference between having made the choice to only eat natural stuff, and then trying to pass that off as fact contrary to the nutritional realities.
There's nothing bad in honey, it's just carbs. If you're looking to lose weight, you should drop some calories from your diet, maybe the honey is what you'll drop, maybe you'd prefer dropping something else. It does have a high GI though, but it's only a minor part of your breakfast - but if you want to live perfectly low GI, it needs to go. So overall, you probably don't need to worry about it at all
I prefer honey to refined sugar too, because it's at least got some value(antioxidants, etc.) and I think bees are cooler than factories. But neither of them fit into a cutting diet very well. For example if you were on a 2000 cal cut, 3 tablespoons of honey would take up 10% of your days cals. Or the same as 55 strawberries!
I use honey in my post-workout shake , where you want a high GI carb.
For a non-caloric, natural sweetner, I use Stevia
I use honey in my post-workout shake , where you want a high GI carb.
For a non-caloric, natural sweetner, I use Stevia
Go to this thread on information on refined white sugar, artificial sweetners, and a little bit on honey (I was involved a little bit too)
http://training.fitness.com/nutrition/splenda-sucralose-25777.html
http://training.fitness.com/nutrition/splenda-sucralose-25777.html
Lol, pretty much the same general arguments as posted here, and the guy on "my side" of the argument is banned :11doh: