Does honey make you fat or not? Cori Grămescu, fitness trainer and nutrition specialist, spoke in a CSID interview about calorie and non-calorie sweeteners, which are not suitable for people who want to lose weight. The expert also talked about honey, a caloric sweetener that makes us fat and which is not indicated in slimming belts.
Calorie sweeteners: Anything that tastes sweet and has calories increases insulin levels
“Calorie sweeteners: this includes sugar, fructose derivatives: to measureagave syrup, corn starch fructose syrup, coconut, palm sugar.
Anything that tastes sweet and caloric increases insulin levels, of which concentrated fructose increases the risk fat liverwhich in turn gives insulin resistance.
So it is not good at all to consume this category of foods, including honey. is fructose 100%, has no scientifically proven nutritional benefits. Only we and the Bulgarians consume it for therapeutic purposes. We must be careful to eliminate this category from our usual diet. Nothing happens if we consume it from time to time, but it is not constantly recommended, “explains Cori Grămescu.
However, honey makes you fat when consumed in large quantities or very often. Occasional consumption is harmless.
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Gori Grămescu, on non-calorie sweeteners: they can make you fat
“Non-calorie sweeteners – what they do very badly in our body is that they increase our insulin, in the absence of caloric intake and in the absence of carbohydrate intake, and this makes us put on weight. This insulin that remains in our body makes us fat.
This is why people who drink a lot of light fizzy drinks gain weight just as much as people who drink non-light fizzy drinks. Many of today’s sweeteners use sucralose and it has this property of increasing insulin. Our widespread hormonal system, which belongs to the digestive system, somehow reacts to sweet taste, not necessarily to sugar “, explains Cori Grămescu.
“It’s good to get used to the natural taste of unprocessed ingredients because that moderately sweet taste will regulate our appetite, how we respond to food and how full we feel.”
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