Oral health in transition: The Hadza foragers of Tanzania
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Sometimes I find I've wandered into some blog extolling the virtues of honey, referencing high seasonal consumption among the Hazda. I think when it comes down to it, the null hypothesis should be that naturally refined sugars are still refined sugars. There may be contexts where a diet high in honey doesn't lead to obesity--like the Hadza. But unless you convince some Hadza to switch the honey for sucrose, and see what happens, they can't be used as an example of how honey is superior to sucrose, I think the null hypothesis should be to be just as suspicious of honey as you are of sucrose or high fructose corn syrup. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/ar...al.pone.0172197 |
That's interesting. I've recently switched to using small amounts of honey for sweetening (like in my coffee, etc..), as part of a switch to a more "natural", ancestral foods way of eating.
I became very suspicious of all artificial sweeteners and even stevia, after my dog almost died from ingesting xylitol (it sends their insulin levels very high). That experience, combined with information from The Obesity Code has made fake sweeteners of any kind very unappealing to me. Honey at least has been ingested by humans for a very long time. I'd also like to think that honey might have other compounds in it that are helpful as opposed to the emptiness of sugar or corn syrup. I'm very curious as to why the Hadza men eat so much more honey than the women--are they out in the bush taking it directly from the hive? |
I'd like to think that there are wonderful protective factors in honey as well. But I don't. :) At least, I don't seem to be protected vs. binging on honey. Honey might have been ingested by humans for a very long time. But not in massive quantities, except for seasonally for groups like the Hadza.
http://www.atlasobscura.com/article...honeyguide-bird Men eating more honey might be just a division of labour thing, the accounts of honey gathering all seem to involve men, they probably eat a fair bit right away when they come across a hive. I'm thinking they aren't any more protected against binging on honey than I am. Something I thought was a mistake was when folk like Kurt Harris started talking about "paleo re-enactment" as if it were a bad thing. If we knew exactly why a people like the Hadza do as well as they do while eating a fair amount of honey, we could just say, okay do just that. Honey is protective? Get lots of sunlight? Do a certain kind of exercise? Eat "safe" starches that aren't wheat? Fermented foods? It's hard to be certain just what it is about their diet and lifestyle that works. We know something does. If there are twenty differences between one group and another, and one has a better result, the best result might not come from thinking that you know how things work--but from re-enactment, change those twenty things, and without knowing why the new way of eating/lifestyle works, it seems fairly likely that there will be improvement. As long as the protection doesn't come from genetic or multigenerational differences. A very long winded way for me to say that I'm not sure how I could safely eat honey without going full-Hadza. |
Also, it is seasonal.
You could make a case that we have both sugar burning and fat burning mechanisms because it was once vital to put weight on in fall, to actually live on over the winter. |
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releas...70824141231.htm |
Also, who among us hasn't taken antibiotics?
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How do we bring back the microflora of old???
Read a book some years ago about how much we have lost. ANd for some people a transfer of fecal matter is a medical procedure to save their lives ....... It makes me think that we are now living in the margines of deprivation.....can other people provide what we have lost?? The doctor also talked about the minute amount of antibiotics in commercial milk and the effects; and the downside of a ceasarian section such that the baby is not innoculated with the mothers natural flora down under.... and how docs can assist with this. |
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