 Diabetics suffer from a reduced amount of Insulin that must be secreted in response to any glucose introduced into their blood. Therefore, they have to be consistent with a restricted food amounts and its varieties. The restrictions put on their food divest them of many elements in their natural form.
Diabetes patients are forbidden sugar, yet they can't forsake sweeteners. To replace sugar in their food and drinks, diabetics use synthetic sweeteners like Aspartam which is a synthetic chemical agent without any nutritive value, and sometimes it is combined with starch derivatives which release glucose into the blood.
All over the world diabetes patients take honey in place of sugar. Apart from the debate about the compared absorbed amounts of glucose after ingesting sugar or honey which favors honey to avoid high concentration of glucose after eating sugar, it must be stressed 2 points in honey, these are:
Calorie Content:
Honey is 3 times as sweet as sugar. So if one needs 30 g of sugar, he may replace them with 10 g of honey. The needed amount of sugar (30g) produces 120 Kcal, while the same honey amount (10 g) produces 32 Kcal.
Micro-Nutrients: These are subdivided into 2 categories:
Vitamins:
Diabetics need some vitamins very much. Such vitamins as B1, B6, B12, C, E and Biotin are recommended by physicians to all diabetes patients. Honey (especially the unfiltered summer homey when the bee only uses nectar to make honey) is a great source of most of these vitamins, at least to supply a part of the RDA in natural form. Earlier in the former USSR was vitaminized honey. The bee was fed fruits and vegetables juice to produce this sort of honey, otherwise synthetic vitamins were added to honey to be taken by diabetics.
Trace elements:
- Chromium is a critical nutrient in diabetes. Chromium is presented as a supplement for people with, diabetes, pre-diabetic glucose intolerance and women with diabetes associated with pregnancy.
- Manganese is present in diabetics in 1/2 its amount that is present in people without diabetes.
- Magnesium is greatly lowered in diabetics.
- Vanadium given to diabetics proved to reduce their Insulin needs.
- Lack of zinc has been suggested to play a role in the development of diabetes in humans. It is involved in virtually all aspects of Insulin metabolism, synthesis, secretion and utilization.
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