Is Honey fattening ?

[Zoth]

I love dolloping my Honey on everything but my wife says it is contributing to my ever widening waistline. I say because it is an invert sugar it is not at all fattening. Am I right ?

 

[Winker]

One tablespoon of honey has 64 calories, and one tablespoon of sugar has 46 calories. (Or has 22 calories in one teaspoon of honey versus 16 calories in one teaspoon of table sugar.)

 

[dpearce4]

Afraid your wife is right.

putting weight on has very little to do with fat content. to stay at the same weight you should be calories in= calories out. so if you eat more food than you burn off in execise/living you put weight on. if you eat less than u burn then you loose weight.

all foods contain calories. just some are not as good for you as others. That said, your body will always need some fat, its one of the things that keeps you warm in winter and also it is stored calories for times of famine.

Honey is better for you than some foods as it is a complex carb. this means it is more difficult for your body to break down and use, ie no sugar rush( its good if you are doing strenuous exercise of more that 30mins. will help you get less lactic acid in your muscles. where as refined sugar is a simple carb which is very easy to convert, hence a sugar rush when you eat it.

hopes this helps.

 

[ROACHMAN]

and it makes your teeth fall out

 

[dpearce4]

and it makes your teeth fall out

who cares about teeth it tastes to good!!!! thats what dentists and toothbrushes are for lol.

 

[Skyhook]

Honey is better for you than some foods as it is a complex carb. this means it is more difficult for your body to break down and use, ie no sugar rush( its good if you are doing strenuous exercise of more that 30mins. will help you get less lactic acid in your muscles. where as refined sugar is a simple carb which is very easy to convert, hence a sugar rush when you eat it.

Isn't it the other way round? Glucose and fructose are simple sugars (monosaccharides) and sucrose is a complex sugar (polysaccharide). both have a high glycaemic index.

To me, the main benefit of honey is that it's really nice.

 

[dpearce4]

not sure but i know sugar is not as good for u as honey. it maybe down to what else is in it.

the main thing though is calories in= calories out. no weight gain.

 

[Finman]

One tablespoon of honey has 64 calories, and one tablespoon of sugar has 46 calories. (Or has 22 calories in one teaspoon of honey versus 16 calories in one teaspoon of table sugar.)

According this

100 g honey has sugar 81 g and energy 1382 kJ = 330 kcal

http://www.fineli.fi/food.php?foodid=4&lang=enkcal

 

[Finman]

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.In Finland we consume honey 0,5 kg per capita and sugar 33 kg. At least honey cannot make us fat.

per capita consumption of refined and added sugars actually declined by 16% in Australia between 1980 and 2003. During the same period, rates of obesity tripled. Here’s the sugar data:

 

[Jeff Buzz]

I think you will find that.



After you have spent hours tending your hives,
Made all the kit
Collected the swarms
Fought off the wasps
Collected and carried the honey home,
Extracted it
Filtered it
Put it in jars
Cleaned up all the mess
Along with all the other bee related jobs we do

You may have burned more calories getting the dam stuff on your plate than the ones you are eating.....

 

[JamezF]

I agree. It's not honey or sugar that is fattening. It's not moving around enough afterwards that's fattening...

James

 

[Winker]

According this

100 g honey has sugar 81 g and energy 1382 kJ = 330 kcal

http://www.fineli.fi/food.php?foodid=4&lang=enkcal

Calories per 100g = 304
Calories per tablespoon = 64
Calories per teaspoon = 21

http://world-of-honey.com/benefits-of-honey/calories-in-honey/

 

[dpearce4]

I think you will find that.



After you have spent hours tending your hives,
Made all the kit
Collected the swarms
Fought off the wasps
Collected and carried the honey home,
Extracted it
Filtered it
Put it in jars
Cleaned up all the mess
Along with all the other bee related jobs we do

You may have burned more calories getting the dam stuff on your plate than the ones you are eating.....

It must have been all the other goodies i ate and drank over xmas and new year, and being a sloth on the sofa for the 2 weeks that helped me put on 5.5lb in that time lol. back to my diet again this week. only 1.5stone to lose.

 

[madasafish]

Nah.
Run 20 miles a week, eat what you like and look as slim as a teenager..

That's my solution and has been for the past 30 odd years..

 

[oliver90owner]

Fats are lipids; honey is carbohydrate.

Fat is a storage medium and contains twice the energy per unit mass than carbohydrate.

Carbohydrate is easily assimilated when energy is required so it is mainly stored, short term, it in the liver, from where it is changed to simple sugars and rapidly distributed to where required via the circulatory system.

Excess carbohydrate (or fat) is stored longer term as fat. So eating too much fat (twice the energy value of the carbohydrate) is really bad for getting fat and carbohydrates, when converted to half the weight as fats are bad, too.

Obviously carbohydrate is converted to fat (and fat back to sugars), but that is a slower process as it is naturally the method for longer term storage (as a higher energy density food).

One might use the analogy that an armfull of wood might only need half that amount of a good coal to get the same amount of heat from the fire.

People get fat by eating too much or the wrong diet. Some may have conditions that make it difficult to avoid getting obese, but most of us simply eat too much compared to our physical activity. Lifestyle is what it is down to. People don't have to get fat. More than once, the point has been put forward that the only fat people in the concentration camps of WWII were the guards.

RAB

Honey is no different than a lot of foods (better than a lot, too).

 

[Luminos]

Move about more.
You don't see fat athletes, and they eat thousands of calories.

 

[JamezF]

most of us simply eat too much compared to our physical activity

I think this is the most important point RAB makes.

James

 

[drfraz]

Your bees eat the honey are they fat?
So don't eat honey from fat bees. Simple.

 

[Winker]

Your bees eat the honey are they fat?
So don't eat honey from fat bees. Simple.

Fat bees have less honey to take, so taking from fat bees may be the way to go

 

[Finman]

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The fat percentage of gentleman is 30%.