Posts tagged with ‘diabetes’

Diving into another misunderstood topic today… SUGAR! Thank you for everyone who sent your feedback on this topic on my Insta stories last week! Some of my followers have been asking about this for a long time and the most asked question, “what is the best sweetener to use?”. Cane sugar, maple syrup, honey, agave, brown rice syrup, coconut nectar, coconut sugar, date sugar? The list could go on forever. But the truth is, when it comes to added sugar, sugar is sugar. All “added” sugar contains 4 calories per gram. Replacing your cane sugar with coconut sugar isn’t going to magically make you a healthy skinny person. There is also no use bragging on the health benefits of any of these sugars either, because they are empty calories. I recently saw a very popular influencer on Instagram posting about how she just loves to give her son these little Manuka honey packets to keep him healthy. I mean come on, there are a lot more nutrients in a carrot that a honey pack. Just because honey may have trace minerals, they are TRACE, and it is still SUGAR.