Honey vs Sugar
Recently and totally out of the blue I have started eating honey. I don't know why, but I love the stuff now where I used to hate it entirely. There you go, taste buds change. It turns out that honey could be good for watching your weight and keeping you healthy. Manuka honey (which is expensive) is said to have many health benefits and can keep you from getting colds and all sorts, but any honey will do the trick apparently. Honey, on average, has more calories per tablespoon than refined cane sugar (the calorific content can change due to the type of honey used). However, because honey is very, natuarally sweet, you need to use much less of it than sugar so that you should end up having less calories anyway. The other thing is the GI count. GI or Glycemic Index is basically a measure of how quickly the body can use carbohydrates from foods. The lower the score the slower the release of energy. Ordinary supermarket sugar has a G...