Anti-Wisdom: what are the extra benefits of honey water compared to sugar water?

Whether you're on a regimen or not, you have a heart for health and wellness. Maybe you're still staying up late and tossing yourself around, but you know the behavior is wrong, you know it can't last, and you know you need a healthy regimen.

I've been focusing on health and wellness. I just had a problem: in the morning it is advocated that we drink a glass of honey water on an empty stomach, and I just ran out of honey. I have a little bit of icing sugar on my side, and I wondered: what's the difference between honey water and icing sugar water? Further expansion: what is the difference between honey water and sugar water.

1. honey water is just a sugar water with no extra features;

2. honey water is amazing, but has many, many features that literally cure everything.

Maybe we're not that extreme, but deep down we all favor one. Most people favor a cure-all; some advanced intellectuals in the sciences see honey as syrup.

My title Anti-intellectual is against these high-level intellectuals. Two heavyweight platforms, Clove and Knowledge, have professional discourses against honey. Both platforms have very rigorous articles written by professional researchers. I have no problem with their rigor, from the basis to the conclusions are great.

So why did I write this anti-intellectual piece? Because I want to show them that there are other possibilities; and incidentally, I want to popularize it for white people, so that they can exchange questions with the big boys someday. In the spirit of objectivity and communication with everyone~

Ingredients determine function, function determines use. Let's first compare the ingredients of the two.

1. The main ingredient of both sucrose and rock sugar is sucrose.

2. The main components of honey are glucose and fructose, in addition to honey may have a small amount of trace elements, pollen grains and some other content.

Compare the finish score to compare the function.

1. Natural Science

From the natural science point of view, both honey and sugar are mainly composed of sugar, which provides us with energy, the only difference is that honey contains some substances produced in the nectar and secreted by the bees themselves. These substances will have some extra functions and these functions will have some benefits to our body. But the benefits are unknown.

According to some extreme scientists, the effect of honey is not much different from that of sugar.

2. Traditional medicine

From the traditional medicine point of view, there is more to say. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the efficacy of rock sugar and cane sugar will be a little different, because of the coolness of the medicinal properties of rock sugar a little I do not dispute this, but also a little think that may be true, because of the crystalline form of the drug will affect the efficacy of the drug (to be perfected references). Honey, on the other hand, is the essence of heaven and earth, and has many, many beneficial effects. The history of the herb is documented

Effectiveness and use are inseparable, there are efficacy to have use; sometimes we are efficacy and use together, such as Chinese medicine canon.

1. Natural science

According to the thinking of extreme scientists: honey is a syrup, so its main role is to provide energy, and its use is a syrup, a sweetener.

An article by Dr. Clove (Dr. Clove, 2018) says that honey's only medicinal role is to relieve coughs, citing multiple studies to support this; it also suggests that it can be taken in large quantities for fructose intolerance to achieve a laxative effect.

2. Chinese medicine

From a Chinese medicine point of view, honey has many functions and uses. In addition to health care for the treatment of disease, but also used in the preparation of medicines and so on.

(To be improved~)

Dr. Cing had an article in 16 years that denied the health care effects of honey, mainly based on the two bases that honey is less than 1% other than sugar and water and that honey is too much of a fake (Yun Wu Xin, 2016).

In 18 years, Dr. Clove again had an article denying the health care of honey (Dr. Clove, 2018). This article is more objective and has stronger arguments. First the article recognized the cough suppressant effect of honey, and then began to deny the health benefits of honey. The article not only emphasizes the low number of nutrients, but also cites the contents of the EFSA document to testify to its own thesis.

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On the basis of the available data, the Commission summarized as follows:

- Honey as a claimed foodstuff is not well established.

- A causal relationship between honey intake and the claimed health benefits of honey has not been established.

Several of the answers were very specialized and as rigorous as Dr. Clove's tweets. One answer with 6K+ likes is recommended:

What do you think of Dr. Clove's statement that honey has no special nutritional value and then suggesting that drinking honey in moderation when you have a cough can alleviate the symptoms? - The answer to this question is: "How do you feel about Dr. Clove saying that honey has no special nutritional value, and then suggesting that drinking honey in moderation when coughing can relieve the symptoms?

There was a lot of discussion about the answers from Ling, like this one:

I'm a scientist who thinks Chinese medicine is unscientific, but still supports it.

I agree with the conclusion of Dr. Clove and the know-it-alls that honey is a syrup + trace amounts of other active substances; and I also believe very much in the argument they cite - that it's not certain that honey has any health benefits. But the other way of saying it's uncertain is that we can't say definitively at this point whether it does or not.

But does not being certain that it does, negate the fact that it doesn't? It's true that there aren't a lot of other actives in honey, and none of the actives that are already there have any good function. But as a scientist, can you say it must have no health benefits? Can you affirm that there isn't some synergistic and unobserved content between these trace substances?

Are there fewer phenomena of life that we cannot explain? Are there not laws of nature that we can't understand? Just like Chinese medicine, I don't think it's scientific, but it does work. A lot of medicines, which are proteins or starches in modern terms, but they have some special effects.

Anti-intellectual anti-intellectual: I recognize that Chinese medicine has its dregs, and a lot of it really doesn't work; it's also possible that honey doesn't have much of a health effect.

Honey is essentially sugar with some nectar inclusions, pollen and bee secretions. These components determine the main position of honey - syrup. But because honey contains a lot of trace elements, vitamins and some other biologically active substances, it may have some health functions for us, as to what this is we are not yet clear.

The existing health effects are not based on scientific experiments, but on the application of a part of the population, at least the placebo effect is there. Because of the presence of a small amount of active substances, honey water must have better efficacy than sugar water; but how much effect we are not clear, whether it is worth the extra money you pay, we are not clear. This also depends on your financial condition.

Sometimes belief is more important than reality! If you believe that honey can be healthy, please insist; if you doubt, please tolerate.

Let's be more rational!!!! Don't believe in the excessive propaganda of merchants, and don't be too superstitious about certain authorities. Pure natural is not necessarily good; experts are not necessarily true, true is not necessarily right.

Time will give us the answer~

Note: This article is for academic exchanges and knowledge dissemination, part of the quoted material erosion deletion. Part of the content to be updated~

References:

Dr. Clove. (2018). Don't eat it indiscriminately, this is the only magical effect of honey . Retrieved from /column/11784

Yun Wu Xin. (2016). Honey, Royal Jelly, Propolis ...... Unraveling the Mystery of Magical Bee Products . Retrieved from /column/5026