This published article reviews all studies that validate honey as a novel anti-diabetic agent. To no surprise, honey has been revered as a naturally, preferred sweetner for diabetics, simply for the fact that it doesn't require insulin to be digested. This peer-reviewed article from Romanian faculty is very qualified to digest the data for the intrinsic value contained within.
Honey and
Diabetes: The Importance of Natural Simple Sugars in Diet for Preventing and
Treating Different Type of Diabetes
Diabetes is
a metabolic disorder with multifactorial and heterogeneous etiologies. Two
types of diabetes are common among humans: type 1 diabetes that occurs when the
immune system attacks and destroys insulin and type 2 diabetes, the most common
form, that may be caused by several factors, the most important being
lifestyle, but also may be determined by different genes.
Honey was
used in folk medicine for a long time, but the health benefits were explained
in the last decades, when the scientific world was concerned in testing and
thus explaining the benefits of honey.
Different
studies demonstrate the hypoglycemic effect of honey, but the mechanism of this
effect remains unclear.
This review
presents the experimental studies completed in the recent years, which support
honey as a novel antidiabetic agent that might be of potential significance for
the management of diabetes and its complications and also highlights the
potential impacts and future perspectives on the use of honey as an
antidiabetic agent.
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