I'm a diabetic and I dare not take in even a drop of honey.
That'll kill me.
Honey = Carbohydrates
Carbohydrates = Turns into Blood Sugar when digested
When I was diagnosed as a Diabetic, I was dumbfounded as I never
had a sweet tooth and drank moderate amounts of soda. I never had
cravings for sweet things. So why the hell did I have the bad luck of getting this dreaded disease?
But I was a Carbohydrate junkie (I loved rice and donuts) and suffered everyday stress at work. So these are the two factors that almost killed me.
Now I know that:
1. Carbohydrate = Sugar = Poison
2. Stress hormones induce the liver to flood the bloodstream with
glucogen (glucose). So even if you don't eat anything sweet
or carb rich but you find yourself in a stressful situation, your
blood sugar levels shoot up.
After Years and years of being like that, I developed insulin resistance and my body stopped processing my blood sugar into energy for my cells. Kaya yung glucose sa bloodstream ko ay naiipon at tumataas. Pag napabayaang mataas ang sugar sa bloodstream, the sugar will destroy my nerves, my kidneys, my eyes, my heart and a lot of other things. Kaya, ingat talaga ako of what I put in my mouth.
I have attended diabetic forums where there are a lot of 20something
Type 2 Diabetics. All of them worked for Call Centers. That proves the
Stress=Hyperglycemia equation.
Take care of yourselves. Being diabetic is like suffering in purgatory and there is a diabetes epidemic going on right now due to our modern lifestyles (Stress + High Carb Diets). You need not have genetic predisposition to get diabetes.