HbA1c and Fructose
Who would have thunk it?
HbA1c is a measure of the amount of glucose in the blood over a period of time. Fructose is found in fruit and is also used as a sweetener in many processed foods.
Fructose is a sugar that is metabolized in the liver and it turns out, may not be measured by HbA1c.
Fruit & Honey may not spike your glucose, or your insulin, but… Eating too much fruit and honey have known consequences inside your body that can lead to early disease. The only problem is, your doctor can’t test you for it. This video may be controversial and the information is true. Don’t believe me, here’s the research…
youtube - Hidden Danger in Fruit & Honey [ A1c Misses Fructose Damage ] 2023 KenDBerryMD
See the above and take a look at the research.
That said, I have, since going low carb, and cutting out sugar have avoided any amount of fruit and have gone by the rule of thumb that if it is sweet, it is probably not good for me. Also, some keto people say that if it’s got the word ‘berry’ in it, take small amounts in your diet and if not, avoid.
But this is a bit of a bomb shell as it could mean that, as we all have, been relying on HBa1c as a measure of our blood sugar levels, we may have been missing something quite significant and if taking honey and fruit may have thought that even remission from type 2 was attained when it may not have been.
Worse though is people could right now be overloaded with fructose and not know it or even be any where near being detected as pre-diabetic or diabetic.
It also puts sway to the idea of eating ‘5 a day’ as a healthy diet if fruit is in the equation.
Another thought I had was, in regard to what is a ‘natural human diet’ of which ultra processed carbohydrate is definitely not a part of, is that tropical fruit is not a part of it either. Go back just 100 years and we didn’t have refrigerated containers or ships to bring us tonnes of pineapples, bananas, mangoes, papaya, kiwi fruit, passion fruit, guava, lychees, dragon fruit, star fruit, jack fruit, durian, rambutan, mangosteen, bread fruit, custard apple, soursop, tamarind, sapodilla, longan, carambola, and many more to our supermarkets.
Indeed ony twenty year or so ago, many would have been considered exotic and only consumed occasionally.
These foods were simply not available to us on a daily basis and so we did not eat them as regularly as we may do today yet now some or all are classed as ‘healthy foods’, to be consumed as regularly as possible, despite being laden with fructose and thus sugar that is sure to raise our blood sugar levels and cause us to gain weight when eaten in quantity.